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Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird: Stories

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Publisher
Scribner Book Company
Date
Fiction
Literature in Translation
Story Collections
This collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies.

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The New York Times Book Review
Moses’ translation from the Spanish captures the playful gruesomeness of the Argentine writer’s prose ... Bazterrica takes big swings throughout, and while not every punch lands, these stories are fresh and unnerving.
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Booklist
These uncanny stories swirl with acuity, haunting and challenging readers with a mesmerizing and profound surety.
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Positive Publishers Weekly
Though the author leans a bit much on shock value, she adds depth to the strange and eerie atmosphere with recurring themes of religion and death.
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