FROM SAVAGERY

Alejandra Banca

Translated from the Spanish by Katie Brown

winner, English PEN Award

shortlisted, Premio Valle-Inclán

“Electric, defiant, and singing with melancholia, Banca’s devastating debut throws its arms around a displaced generation of young Venezuelan migrants, revelling in the clamour and beauty of their day-by-day survival.” —Latin American Literature Today

“Banca’s characters grab you by the heart. Visceral, unflinching, ferocious, unashamed—an important and much-needed entry to the world’s literature.” —Jade Song, author of Chlorine

“FROM SAVAGERY is not only a book, it’s a global situation . . . Alejandra Banca is brave!” —Jan Queretz, Casapaís

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Alejandra Banca studied literature at Andrés Bello University in Caracas. Fleeing Venezuela’s collapse, she emigrated to Spain and lives in Barcelona. Her poetry has appeared in various anthologies. From Savagery is her first book.

Katie Brown is an associate professor in Modern Languages at Exeter University. An expert on contemporary Latin American culture, she has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s “Open Book” and is part of the women’s U.K., U.S. and Venezuelan translation collective, Colaboratorio Ávila. Her translations appear regularly in the quarterly journal, Latin American Literature Today.