ARGONAUT BOOKS

'The world is this house', says Clara while she is trying to protect her beloved ones from the world - yes, that one outside their house walls - which seems to threaten them more and more. Clara entrenches herself with her father and her daughter Flor in a dark apartment that inevitably crumbles on them. The roof becomes their last recess of freedom. A caged bird is the only witness of Clara's fear and resistance against those she thinks are trying to destroy her. Reviews "Trìas deftly turns her brief fiction into universal parable." -Shelf Awareness"An exceptional novel." -...Read More