Animals at the End of the World / / Gloria Susana Esquivel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Esquivel, Gloria Susana,
• MitwirkendeR: Myers, Robin,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Latin American Literature in Translation
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (144 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; I --; 1 --; 2 --; 3 --; 4 --; 5 --; 6 --; 7 --; 8 --; 9 --; 10 --; 11 --; 12 --; II --; 13 --; 14 --; 15 --; 16 --; Acknowledgments
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781477321249; 9783110745283
• DOI: 10.7560/320167
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Gloria Susana Esquivel.

Animals at the End of the World begins with an explosion, which six-year-old Inés mistakes for the end of the world that she has long feared. In the midst of the chaos, she meets the maid’s granddaughter, Mariá, who becomes her best friend and with whom she navigates the adult world in her grandparents’ confined house. Together, they escape the house and confront the “animals” that populate Bogotá in the 1980s. But Inés soon realizes she cannot count on either María or her preoccupied and conflicted parents. Alone, she must learn to decipher her outer and inner worlds, confronting both armies of beasts and episodes of domestic chaos. In the process, she also learns what it means to test boundaries, break rules, and cope with the consequences. The first novel by Colombian author Gloria Susana Esquivel, Animals at the End of the World is a poetic and moving coming-of-age story that lingers long after its final page.