The novel ‘Of beasts and birds’, by Pilar Adón (Madrid, 1971), won the 2023 National Fiction Prize a few days ago for “its great originality, beauty, poetic richness and strength of language.” We offer (by clicking on the image above) a fragment of the audiobook, read by Eva Coll, a work published by Storytel that has a total duration of 5 hours and 58 minutes.
In this dystopian story, published in print by Galaxia Gutenberg, the protagonist is a woman on the edge, with a drowned sister behind her, who arrives at an isolated house, inhabited exclusively by women, who dress in the same way and who wear carried out strange rites and celebrations. The book had previously received the Francisco Umbral critics’ award, as well as the Cálamo Otra Mirada Award.
