The Animal Days

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Pub Date 30 Jul 2021 | Archive Date 13 Jul 2021
Katakana Editores | Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Titles

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Description

A woman’s story of movement as a both a lifestyle and a rite of passage, The Animal Days follows Julia’s journey of love and rock-climbing across three continents. In this fast-paced novel, joy is linked to self-destruction, love is inseparable from death, freedom is twinned with unbearable solitude, and life is worth only as much as a given moment. The taste for risk and vertigo never stop: they feed each other as the abyss approaches. Julia, determined to never look back, lives perpetually on the brink, even if it means shedding her own skin in the process.

The Animal Days, the long awaited translation of Keila Vall de la Ville's Los días animales, winner of the 2018 International Latino Book Award.

A woman’s story of movement as a both a lifestyle and a rite of passage, The Animal Days follows Julia’s journey of love and rock-climbing across three continents. In this fast-paced novel, joy is...


A Note From the Publisher

Translator: Robin Myers Cover Art: Gabriela di Stefano

Translator: Robin Myers Cover Art: Gabriela di Stefano


Advance Praise

“A moving story about love, violence, freedom and self-discovery.”
—Alberto Barrera Tyszka, Tusquets Prize 2015

“Traveling half the world over, Keila Vall narrates an itinerary that is an adventure, a travel chronicle, and a metaphor for discovery: a journey through the essential things that have been deep inside us all along, but which we must spend a long time seeking before we can find, recognize, and accept.”
—Antonio Muñoz Molina, Príncipe de Asturias Award, Jerusalem Prize

Praise for Keila Vall de la Ville and her writing:

"A one-of-a-kind author"
—Boris Muñoz, Senior Staff Editor of The New York Times

"...among the most talented writers of her generation"
—Yolanda Pantin, Federico García Lorca International Poetry Prize 2020

"...writes with honesty, masterfully orchestrating worlds, situations, and characters."
—Patricia Guzmán, Venezuelan poet and essayist

“She is an artist in dialogue with her times and the times to come.”
—Alberto Chimal, Mexican author

“A moving story about love, violence, freedom and self-discovery.”
—Alberto Barrera Tyszka, Tusquets Prize 2015

“Traveling half the world over, Keila Vall narrates an itinerary that is an adventure, a...


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