Life’s a bitch. That’s why you’ve got to rattle her cage, even if she’s foaming at the mouth. A linked story collection of gritty, streetwise, and wickedly funny fiction from Mexico
Julia Sanches
Julia Sanches has translated close to 30 books into English from Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan
She has translated works by Geovani Martins, Munir Hachemi and Monsterrat Roig, and has been nominated for the International Booker Prize for three consecutive years. Her translations of Boulder by Eva Baltasar and Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener were respectively shortlisted and longlisted in 2023 and 2024. In 2025 she was longlisted for her co-translation of Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda. She is a founding member of the Cedilla & Co. translators’ collective. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, she currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
A blisteringly urgent collection of interconnected stories about contemporary Mexican women. Extremely funny but deadly serious, it absolutely bangs from the first page to the last
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Life’s a bitch. That’s why you’ve got to rattle her cage, even if she’s foaming at the mouth. A linked story collection of gritty, streetwise, and wickedly funny fiction from Mexico
Translated by Julia Sanches, Heather Cleary
Eva Baltasar demonstrates her pre-eminence as a chronicler of queer voices navigating a hostile world - in prose as brittle and beautiful as an ancient saga
By Eva Baltasar
Translated by Julia Sanches
A provocative, irreverent autobiographical novel that reckons with the legacy of colonialism through one Peruvian woman's family ties to both colonised and coloniser
Translated by Julia Sanches
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