Ice for Martians: Hielo para marcianos

by Claudia Ulloa Donoso, Lily Meyer (Translator)

Claudia Ulloa Donoso is an expert at writing gently alienated characters. Sometimes, their dislocation is the result of geography. Occasionally, it stems from their social consider "Alarm," in which every sound and moment is skewed by the narrator's terror of her abusive partner, or "The Transfiguration of Melina," whose religious teenage heroine starts the story detached from her sexuality, and ends it anything but. More often, though, Claudia's characters are simply their perspective on the world is singular, whether they want it to be or not.

160 pages, Paperback

Published October 17, 2023

About the author

Claudia Ulloa Donoso (born 6 September 1979) is a Peruvian writer. She was born in Lima, and studied tourism in her native Peru before studying Spanish at the University of Tromsø.
Her published work includes the short story collections El pez que aprendió a caminar and Pajarito, as well as Séptima Madrugada based on the weblog of the same name.
In 2017, she was living in the north of Norway when she was included in the Bogota39 list of the most promising young writers in Latin America.

Reviews

[Ultranauta · Rating 2 out of 5]

Actor, y Cierro los ojos, son dos relatos sobresalientes.

Muy buenas oraciones y episodios interesantes en los otros relatos, pero no dejo de tener la sensación de que es un trabajo inacabado, irregular. Parece un buen trabajo de fin de Máster.

Me paso ahora a ''Yo maté un perro en Rumanía ".

[JXR · Rating 4 out of 5]

no one here felt connected with the world in a standard way, and it worked beautifully. thanks for the arc