Pink Slime e-bog

Winner of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize for Fiction, the Bartolome-Hidalgo Fiction Prize, and the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Literature Prize.A port city is in the grips of an ecological crisis. The river has filled with toxic algae, and a deadly 'red wind' blows throughits streets; much of the coast has been evacuated as the wealthy migrate inland to safety, leaving therest to shelter in abandoned houses as blackouts and food shortages abound.The unnamed narrator is one of those who has stayed.She spends her daystrying to disentangle herself from the two relationships that had once meant everything to her, andlooking after theyoungboywho's been placed in her care.As the world in which they movebecomes smaller, she reflectson the collapse oftheother emotional ties in her lifeand the emergence of a radicalyet tendersolitude.With striking prose and vivid characters,the multi-award-winningPink Slimeoffers profound reflections on motherhood, marriage, and caregiving, set against the backdrop of acrumblingcity.