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Highlights
- A slim book based on Bogata39 member Claudia Ulloa Donoso's blog, Little Bird is comprised of thirty stories that explore the strangeness of everyday life.
- About the Author: Claudia Ulloa Donoso has been recognized by critics and readers as one of the most original and surprising voices in Peruvian literature.
- 112 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Short Stories (single author)
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About the Book
"After leaving Peru to pursue graduate school north of the Arctic circle, Claudia Ulloa Donoso began blogging about insomnia. Not hers, necessarily - the blog was never defined as fact or fiction. Her blog posts became the bones of Little Bird, a collection of short stories with the fervent self-declaration of diary entries and hallucinatory haze of sleeplessness. Blending narration and personal experience, the stories in Little Bird stretch reality, a sharp-shooting combination of George Saunders and Samanta Schweblin. Characters real and unreal, seductive, shape-changing, and baffling come together in smooth prose that leaves readers questioning their own truth"--Book Synopsis
A slim book based on Bogata39 member Claudia Ulloa Donoso's blog, Little Bird is comprised of thirty stories that explore the strangeness of everyday life.Review Quotes
"Blending narration and deep personal experience, the stories in Little Bird stretch reality, a sharp-shooting combination of George Saunders and Samanta Schweblin. Characters real and unreal, seductive, shape-changing, and baffling come together in smooth prose that leaves readers questioning their own truth." --Rachel Cordasco, Speculative Fiction in Translation
"The stories of Little Bird by Claudia Ulloa Donoso feel like lucid dreams... Each story is threaded with a subtle, quiet eeriness that is simultaneously unsettling, but that also keeps you turning the pages." --Lesley Rains, City of Asylum Bookstore
"Sometimes funny, sometimes unsettling, and often surreal, Donoso's words will creep into your mind and make a nest. They will follow you through your day flying circles around your head at work, pecking the plate next to you at dinner, and perching beside you in bed at night. These witty, weird stories will stay with you. And after reading them, you won't want to pick up anything else. Other books just won't be the same." --Politics and Prose Bookstore About the Author Claudia Ulloa Donoso has been recognized by critics and readers as one of the most original and surprising voices in Peruvian literature. In 2017, she was included in the Bogata39, a list of the best Latin American fiction writers under 40 that also includes Valeria Luiselli, Juan Cardenas, and fellow Deep Vellum author Eduardo Rabasa. She currently lives north of the Arctic circle in Bødo, Norway, where she teaches Spanish and Norwegian.