Rabbit Island

"e;In this impressionistic, dreamlike collection, Navarro deploys surrealism to comic, haunting effect."e; -New York TimesThese eleven stories from one of Granta's "e;Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists"e; combine gritty surrealism with explosive interior meditations, traversing the fickle, often terrifying terrain between madness and freedom. In the title story, a so-called "e;non-inventor"e; brings snow-white rabbits to an island inhabited exclusively by birds, with horrific results. In "e;Myotragus"e; a privileged man's understanding of the world is violently disrupted by the sight of a creature long thought extinct. Elsewhere in these stories that map dingy hotel rooms, shape-shifting cities, and graveyards, an unsightly "e;paw"e; grows from a writer's earlobe and a grandmother floats silently in the corner of the room.