Slash and Burn

Slash and Burn is a shortlisted book for the 2022 Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize and the Premio Valle-Inclan prize for its translation. It tells the story of a woman who fights to keep her daughters safe through war and its aftermaths, and her journey to find her daughter. Hernandez's narrators have a level gaze of ordinary women reckoning with extraordinary hardship, denouncing the ruthless machismo of combat with quiet intelligence.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 28 December 2020
Publisher: And Other Stories

Shortlisted for the 2022 Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize and the Premio Valle-Inclan prize for its translation, Slash and Burn is a powerful novel that tells the story of a woman who fights to keep her daughters safe through war and its aftermaths. Set in a country village, the novel follows a young girl who is taken to the mountains to join the guerrillas and is forced to give up her baby. Surviving the rebellion, she sets out to find her daughter, travelling across the Atlantic with meagre resources. Returning to a community in which civilians, the militia, and the ex-guerrilla fighters have to live together in a society riddled with distrust, fear, and hypocrisy, Hernandez's narrators have the level gaze of ordinary women reckoning with extraordinary hardship. Denouncing the ruthless machismo of combat with quiet intelligence, Slash and Burn creates a suspenseful, slow-burning revelation of rural life in the aftermath of political trauma.

Weight: 358g
Dimension: 129 x 197 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781911508823