Thirst
Marina Yuszczuk, Heather Cleary (translation)It is the twilight of Europe’s bloody bacchanals, of murder & feasting without end. In the nineteenth century, a vampire arrives from Europe to the coast of Buenos Aires and, for the second time in her life, watches as villages transform into a cosmopolitan city, one that will soon be ravaged by yellow fever. She must adapt, intermingle with humans, & be discreet.
In present-day Buenos Aires, a woman finds herself at an impasse as she grapples with her mother's terminal illness & her own relationship with motherhood. When she first encounters the vampire in a cemetery, something ignites within the two women—& they cross a threshold from which there’s no turning back.
With echoes of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein & written in the vein of feminist Gothic writers like Shirley Jackson, Daphne du Maurier, & Carmen Maria Machado, Thirst plays with the boundaries of genre while exploring the limits of female agency, the consuming power of desire, & the fragile vitality of even the most immortal of creatures.
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Marina Yuszczuk was born in Argentina in 1978. She is a writer & founding editor of Rosa Iceberg, a press focused on publishing writing by women. She is the author of multiple books of poetry, short-story collections, & novels. She has a PhD in literature from Universidad Nacional de la Plata & is a film critic for one of Argentina’s top newspapers. Thirst is her first book to be published in the United States.
Heather Cleary is an award-winning translator whose work has been recognized by English PEN & the National Book Foundation, among others. She has served as a judge for several national translation prizes.
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