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224 pages, Hardcover
Expected publication March 31, 2026
that autumn, she will begin to understand what her father has told her: that eyes, hearts, muscles, and feathers will one day mix with cosmic dust to become foliage and berries and roots. that everything the city tries to pave over, those layers of dirt and clay that appear beneath the cement when the electrical company's machines punch holes in the street, is star and tumult, tendon and blood and flight. the trace of countless movements. and she will feel a bit less like a little girl, a bit more lost and less inclined to believe that the world is made of games and sweets.her second book to appear in english translation (following variations on the body, an exquisite story collection), maría ospina's only a little while here (solo un poco aquí) is an animal-centric debut novel. the colombian author's award-winning latest imagines the interior lives of two dogs, a porcupine, a beetle, and a tanager on their travels and migrations (some natural, others forced). with rich imagination, ospina eschews anthropocentric narrative, offering a beautiful, bountiful take on the often overlooked non-human world all around us.