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The Trees

ISBN: 9798986767024
Binding: Paperback
Author: Claudia Peña Claros
Translator: Robin Myers
Pages: 118
Trim: 4.13 x 6.69 inches
Published: 08/20/2024

In The Trees, Claudia Peña Claros piercingly renders a world in perpetual tumult, marked both by convulsive disputes over property and power and by nature's resistance in the face of human injustice. Shifting the focus of the short story away from the urban realm, she locates her vivid anti-narratives in the countryside and in small rural towns. Each story is its own uncanny ecosystem of reality-altering presences; each finds startling ways to catalogue ongoing tension and transformation. Staring deep into the past without taking her eyes from a future that may never arrive, Claudia Peña Claros raises her subtle, arresting voice with intimacy and power.

 

CLAUDIA PEÑA CLAROS (Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, 1970) is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist. She is the author of four short story collections, two poetry collections, and a novel. Her latest book in Spanish is Antes, en cualquier parte (Parc Editores, 2023). In 2016, she won Bolivia's Franz Tamayo National Short Fiction Contest. One of her stories, "Verde," was made into a film by director Rodrigo Bellott.

ROBIN MYERS is a poet, translator, essayist, and 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow. Her many translations include The Brush by Eliana Hernández- Pachón, What Comes Back by Javier Peñalosa M., A Strange Adventure by Eva Forest, Bariloche by Andrés Neuman, and In Vitro: On Longing and Transformation by Isabel Zapata. As a poet, she was included in the 2022 Best American Poetry anthology.

 

"For Women in Translation Month (celebrated every August), pick up The Trees, the latest beautiful story collection by Bolivian writer Claudia Peña Claros after a ten-year absence.  With depth and care, Claros explores rural life, nature, power and justice.  -- Ms. Magazine

Claudia Peña Claros has not only taken the short story away from the cities and urban centers, where the form has grown steadily throughout the twentieth century, and into the countryside, where a new rural narrative has surged with incredible force as of late; she has also fully accepted the writerly challenge such a massive move conveys.”  Cristina Rivera Garza, 2024 Pulitzer Prizewinner, in Literal Magazine

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