Why a Booktrail?
Timeless : Argentina set stories
Mouthful of Birds
Why a Booktrail?
Timeless : Argentina set stories
What you need to know before your trail
Unearthly and unexpected, the stories in Mouthful of Birds burrow their way into your psyche and don’t let go. Samanta Schweblin haunts and mesmerizes in this extraordinary, masterful collection.
Schweblin’s stories have the feel of a sleepless night, where every shadow and bump in the dark take on huge implications, leaving your pulse racing, and the line between the real and the strange blur.
Travel Guide
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Vague and unsettling locations
The locations within these stories are not places but ideas, feelings and concepts
The only destination if you can call it that is the one of unsettling fear, visceral sickness, chilling foreboding and dark imaginings within a world of magical realism
The story headings are a sign of the emotions you are about to fall into and the world you are about to be immersed within. “Toward happy civilization,” “Heads against concrete,” “underground,” “The Digger” And d the ominous “The Test”
“if you pound a person’s head against concrete—even if you’re doing it only so they’ll come to their senses—you will very likely end up hurting them. this is something my mother explained to me early on, the day I pounded Fredo’s head on the asphalt of the school playground.
Buenos Aires is the city on the map as this is where the author is from.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Mouthful of Birds
Destination : South America, Argentina Author/Guide: Samanta Schweblin Departure Time: Who knows?
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