The Bitch

By Pilar Quintana

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATION

In this intense, spare, brilliantly observed novel, a woman's dangerously primal feelings are awakened when she adopts an orphaned puppy

On a bluff overlooking Colombia's rough Pacific coast, at the edge of the jungle--a world where nothing is taken for granted -Damaris lives in a shack with her fisherman husband. Her dream of a child unfulfilled and the warmth of her marriage cooled, she has reached the age "when women dry up," as her uncle puts it. When the opportunity arises, she takes in a motherless puppy with eagerness and immediate affection. She does not yet know the risk she is taking in forging a bond that touches her most painful losses and her tenderest yearnings.

In prose as terse as the villagers Damaris lives among, The Bitch evokes the double-edged force of the instinct to nurture and the desperate desire to be nurtured in turn.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GMZHD1H6
• ISBN13: 9798217434749
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.4" x 5.3"