Humiliation

Humiliation is a collection of short stories by Paulina Flores that explores the missteps, mistakes, and misunderstandings that define our lives, from the dusty backstreets of Santiago to the sun-baked alleyways of impoverished fishing villages. With an exceptional eye for human fragility, it is a mesmerising collection from a rising star of South American literature.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 07 November 2019
Publisher: Oneworld Publications

An uncompromisingly honest collection of short stories, examining with unique perspicacity the missteps, mistakes and misunderstandings that define our lives.

Pride and disgrace.

Nostalgia and revenge.

Tenderness and seduction.

From the dusty backstreets of Santiago and the sun-baked alleyways of impoverished fishing villages to the dark stairwells of urban apartment blocks, Paulina Flores paints an intimate picture of a world in which the shadow of humiliation, of delusion, seduction and sabotage, is never far away. This is a Chile we seldom see in fiction. 

With an exceptional eye for human fragility, with unfailing insight and extraordinary tenderness, Humiliation is a mesmerising collection from a rising star of South American literature, translated from the Spanish by Man Booker International Prize finalist Megan McDowell.

Weight: 284g
Dimension: 211 x 129 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781786075031