Rabbit Island

"Rabbit Island" by Elvira Navarro, published by Two Lines Press. "In this impressionistic, dreamlike collection, Navarro deploys surrealism to comic, haunting effect." —New York Times These eleven stories from one of Granta's "Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists" combine gritty surrealism with explosive interior meditations, traversing the fickle, often terrifying terrain between madness and freedom. In the title story, a so-called "non-inventor" brings snow-white rabbits to an island inhabited exclusively by birds, with horrific results. In "Myotragus" a privileged man's understanding of the world is violently disrupted by the sight of a creature long thought extinct. Elsewhere in these stories that map dingy hotel rooms, shape-shifting cities, and graveyards, an unsightly "paw" grows from a writer's earlobe and a grandmother floats silently in the corner of the room. Book details: published 2021. Order now on BookShops.in with fast, reliable delivery across India.