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Little Bird by Claudia Ulloa Donoso

£13.00
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"The stories of Little Bird by Claudia Ulloa Donoso feel like lucid dreams... Each story is threaded with a subtle, quiet eeriness that is simultaneously unsettling, but that also keeps you turning the pages." —Lesley Rains, City of Asylum Bookstore After moving from Peru north of the Arctic circle to begin graduate school, Claudia Ulloa Donoso began blogging about insomnia. Not hers, necessarily – the blog was never defined as fact or fiction.

Her blog posts became the bones of Little Bird, short stories with a nod to fervent self-declaration of diary entries and the hallucinatory haze of sleeplessness. Blending narration and personal experience, the stories in Little Bird stretch reality, a sharp-shooting combination of George Saunders and Samanta Schweblin. Characters real and unreal, seductive, shape-changing, and baffling come together in smooth prose that, ultimately, defies fact and fiction.

Claudia Ulloa Donoso (b. 1979, Lima) studied tourism in her native Peru before moving to and settling in Norway. She has published a number of short story collections and is included in the 'Bogota 39' list of the most promising young writers in Latin America.

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Little Bird by Claudia Ulloa Donoso

£13.00