{"product_id":"carnaval-fever-isbn-9781593768386","title":"Carnaval Fever:A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eA young girl growing up in an Afro-descendant community of Ecuador in the 1990s confronts familial secrets and the ever-present specter of male violence, set against the vibrant background of Carnaval\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"In this wondrous novel, both life's potential for beauty and harshness sing together. Ortiz has written a story you will not forget.\" —Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of\u003ci\u003e Chain Gang All-Stars\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAinhoa lives a protected life within the walls of her grandmother’s house in the neighborhood of Esmeraldas in Ecuador. Surrounded by a gaggle of aunts who love and teach her, Ainhoa narrates moments that evoke the powerful presence of music and dance in her daily life while also confronting familial violence over the course of Carnaval season. Seen through Ainhoa’s innocent eyes, the difficult themes that have defined the South American country’s recent history, including economic hardship, migration, and upheaval, are but one side of an enormous cultural richness steeped in the joy, music, and vibrancy of this singular community of women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing the contours of Carnaval, and sublimely translated by Madeleine Arenivar, Yuliana Ortiz Ruano’s sensorial and viscerally alive novel brims with poetry and exuberance, as well as the pain of an existence lived in the forgotten corners of the world. \u003ci\u003eCarnaval Fever\u003c\/i\u003e is the introduction of an important new voice in Latin American letters, available in English for the first time. | \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, A Most Anticipated Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Terrifically translated from the Spanish by Madeleine Arenivar . . . A short book, Ortiz Ruano’s novel is both exhilarating and exhausting—just enough to make this reader happy that Carnival comes around only once a year.\" —Rien Fertel, \u003ci\u003eThe Times-Picayune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Evocative and captivating.\" —Karla J. Strand, \u003ci\u003eMs.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Written with unsparing sensual velocity, the novel \u003ci\u003eCarnaval Fever \u003c\/i\u003eis about family and cultural complexities and an exuberant, troubled girlhood . . . leading into the book’s somber, integral conclusion.\" —Meg Nola, \u003ci\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCarnaval Fever\u003c\/i\u003e by Yuliana Ortiz Ruano is a celebration of Afro-Ecuadorian identity and female resilience . . . Through it all, it is the power of sisterhood that will ensure the continued existence of the community, as it goes through heartbreaks, migration, and violence.\" —Linnea Gradin, \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"In this wondrous novel, both life's potential for beauty and harshness sing together. Ortiz has written a story you will not forget.\" —Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of \u003ci\u003eChain Gang All-Stars\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I totally fell in love with Ainhoa’s voice, her freshness, her irrepressible curiosity, her refusal to be tamed.” —Julia Alvarez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I read \u003ci\u003eCarnaval Fever\u003c\/i\u003e in one sitting. Yuliana Ortiz Ruano captures the way young Afro-Ecuadorian women build community by holding on to each other, and find ways to protect one another against a cruel world. Poetic, brutally honest, and deeply introspective, Ainhoa's story hooks into your heart and haunts you long after the last page is turned.\" —Zoraida Córdova, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Inheritance of Orquídea Divina\u003c\/i\u003e | \u003cb\u003eYULIANA ORTIZ RUANO\u003c\/b\u003e (Esmeraldas, Ecuador, 1992) is an Afro music DJ. A novelist and a poet, she is the author of the collections \u003ci\u003eSovoz\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCanciones desde el fin del mundo\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCuaderno del imposible retorno a Pangea\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eCarnaval\u003c\/i\u003e Fever won the Joaquín Gallegos Lara National Fiction Prize, the Primo Romanzo Latinoamericano Award, and the PEN Presents English PEN Award.","brand":"Soft Skull","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48759442178277,"sku":"NP9781593768386","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781593768386.jpg?v=1775598566","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/carnaval-fever-isbn-9781593768386","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}