{"product_id":"blood-red-paperback","title":"Blood Red - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGabriela Ponce\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSarah Booker\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe exhilarating English-language debut from celebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Ponce, \u003ci\u003eBlood Red\u003c\/i\u003e centers the female body in a radical exploration of desire, choice, and consequences.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a torrent of stream-of-consciousness fragments, the unnamed narrator of \u003ci\u003eBlood Red\u003c\/i\u003e recounts the aftermath of her failed marriage in explicit, sensual detail. She falls in and out of love, parties with her friends, skates around the city at night, does a lot of drugs, and gives in to her impulses. Her internal monologue is punctuated by bouts of trypophobia, an obsessive cataloging of holes that empty, fill, widen, and threaten to swallow her entirely. Blood courses through her every encounter from periods, fights, accidents, wounds, sex, streaming to and from her holey fixation. Blood is a vibrant reminder of her physicality, a manifestation of her interiority, a link to memories and sensations--until its abrupt absence changes everything. \u003cbr\u003eProvocative and raw, \u003ci\u003eBlood Red\u003c\/i\u003e is a fierce portrayal of a woman navigating the gray--or red--zones of her uncertainties and paradoxical urges. A subversive grappling with what it means to wrest power over one's body, revels in the narrator's autonomy to make choices and face the outcomes, no matter the scale.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGabriela Ponce\u003c\/b\u003e (Quito, 1977) is a fiction writer, playwright and theater director, as well as a professor of performing arts at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador. In 2015, she published her first book \u003ci\u003eAntropofaguitas\u003c\/i\u003e, which was considered the best book of short stories by the Ministry of Culture. In 2019, she published the novel \u003ci\u003eSanguínea\u003c\/i\u003e (Severo Editorial), also published in Spain by Editorial Candaya, which was awarded the Gallegos Lara prize by the Municipality of Quito for Best Novel of the Year. In 2020, she published \u003ci\u003eSolo hay un jardín: en el fondo de todo hay un jardín\u003c\/i\u003e (La Caída editorial) a compilation of her plays. She is part of \u003ci\u003eMitómana\u003c\/i\u003e, performing arts collective and co-founder of the cultural venue Casa Mitómana. She is on the editorial board of \u003ci\u003eSycorax\u003c\/i\u003e magazine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Booker\u003c\/b\u003e (North Carolina, 1989) is a literary translator working from Spanish to English and has translated, among others, Cristina Rivera Garza's \u003ci\u003eThe Iliac Crest\u003c\/i\u003e (Feminist Press, 2017; And Other Stories, 2018), \u003ci\u003eGrieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country\u003c\/i\u003e (Feminist Press, 2020), and \u003ci\u003eNew and Selected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (Dorothy Press, 2022) and Mónica Ojeda's \u003ci\u003eJawbone\u003c\/i\u003e (Coffee House Press, 2021). Her translations have also been published in journals such as the \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAsymptote\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLatin American Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e3: am magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Baffler\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNashville Review\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in North Carolina.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.1 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 04, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42697030697023,"sku":"9781632063304","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/65f726abdca96daaf055ce0a0882e91b.webp?v=1765008216","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/blood-red-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}