Oneworld Publications, 2019. This information about Mouthful of Birds shown above was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly "Publishing This Week" newsletter. - NPR ‘What separates Schweblin from the pack is the firm foot she has planted in frank horror, and her laconic style… Mouthful of Birds is precisely that rare mix: beauty and horror.' The cover of Mouthful of Birds is at once beautiful and rather disconcerting. The crunch of a bird’s wing. • Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin (translated by Megan McDowell) is published by Oneworld (£12.99). It was so intense. In most cases, the reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. A cloud of butterflies, so beautiful it smothers. Mouthful of Birds is a stunning achievement from a writer whose potential is beginning to seem limitless." Mouthful of Birds is a stunning achievement from a writer whose potential is beginning to seem limitless.' Schweblin is an absolute master.' Schweblin opens her collection of short stories with the story, Headlights, a story with a strong sense of feminist rage. —NPR “[T]he stories cumulatively summon a world in which the civilized is constantly receding and to be a human is to live in a state of desperation.” —The New Yorker To order a copy go to guardianbookshop.com or call 0330 333 6846. Abandoned by the roadside, newlywed brides scream with rage as they’re caught in the headlights of a passing car. Mouthful of Birds is like a couple of nightmares. A Mouthful of Birds (Photo: Dixie Sheridan) Passion, possession, and obsession are primary themes in The Bacchae by Euripides. After a small struggle, the bird shrieks and vanishes, and then she smiles, sheepish, her ‘red teeth’ sickening her father. * Minneapolis Star-Tribune * 'Dark, unsettling images, a sort of half-fevered, all-dazed awareness of the world outside. They also … Mouthful of Birds is precisely that rare mix: beauty and horror.' If you are the publisher or author and feel that the reviews shown do not … Mouthful of Birds, by Samanta Schweblin In the closing story, “The Heavy Suitcase of Benavides,” a mousy man, Benavides, murders his wife and stuffs her body into a suitcase. - Minneapolis Star-Tribune The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Schweblin, Samantha. 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