Mouthful of Birds

Long-listed for the Man Booker International Prize, 2019.

Spine-tingling and unexpected, unearthly and strange, the stories of Mouthful of Birds are impossible to forget.  The crunch of a bird’s wing. A cloud of butterflies, so beautiful it smothers. A crimson flash of blood across an artist’s canvas. Samanta Schweblin’s writing expertly blurs the line between the surreal and the everyday, pulling the reader into a world that is at once nightmarish and beautiful. An exhilarating tour de force guaranteed to leave the pulse racing. ‘This is our world, and sharp-focused, but stripped of its usual meanings… Brutal violence is twisted into horrific, intensely experienced art.’ —The Guardian