Cousins

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Yuna lives with her mother, cousins and sister in an impoverished town outside Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her only way out is through a promising young career as a painter. Her female family suffer a series of terrible misfortunes, perceived and relayed by Yuna in a dark, gnomic and unabashedly original style. A 'hellishly tender and hilariously twisted Little Women' (Cousins is the literary masterpiece of a major discovery in international literature, never before translated into English.'Makes you laugh out loud.' Mariana Enriquez'Unforgettable.' Ms. Magazine

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Aurora Venturini was born in 1921 in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an adviser to the Institute of the Child's Psychology and Re-education where she met and became intimate friends with Eva Peron. In 1948, Jorge Luis Borges personally handed her the Initiation Award (Premio Iniciacion) for her book El solitario. She studied Psychology at the University of Paris, where she self-exiled for 25 years after the Liberating Revolution. In Paris she lived in the company of Violette Leduc and became a friend of Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Eugene Ionesco and Juliette Greco. She translated and wrote critical essays on poets such as Isidore Ducasse, Conde de Lautreamont, Francois Villon and Arthur Rimbaud; for the translations of the latter two authors she received the Iron Cross decoration granted by the French government. In 2007, she received the Pagina/12 New Novel Award for Las primas (Cousins). She died on November 24, 2015, in Buenos Aires at the age of 92.