Book Review
Rabbit Island (2021)
by Elvira Navarro
This collection of short stories by Spanish author Elvira Navarro was longlisted for the National Book Award prize for translated fiction. Like many works of Spanish language short fiction that make it on the longlist of English language prizes, there is a heavy element of the bizarre and surreal. The title story, about a weirdo who tries to control the bird population on an island in the middle of a river near Madrid by releasing 20 rabbits, takes a macabre and disturbing twist. In another story an animal paw grows out of the ear of the narrator. Strange, disturbing, that is the vibe.
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