Praise for Margarita García Robayo
‘García Robayo is building one of the most solid and interesting oeuvres in Latin American literature.’
Juan Cárdenas
‘Margarita shows sharp insight into contemporary life. Her voice speaks with surreptitious irony and sophisticated psychological perception. She is the creator of an exceptional poetics of displacement.’
Juan Villoro
‘Her stories combine the atmosphere of Desperate Housewives, Hemingway’s iceberg theory and a memorable, bittersweet ending.’
Jorge Carrión
‘Margarita gathers memories as if they were flowers. She smells them. She plants them. And they hurt.’
La Voz del Interior (Argentina)
‘Full of everyday details that reveal the most vulnerable aspects of feminine subjectivity.’
La Nación (Argentina)
‘One of the most potent figures of contemporary Latin American literature.’
Inés Martín Rodrigo, ABC (Spain)
Margarita García Robayo
Fish Soup
Translated by
Charlotte Coombe
Contents
Praise for Margarita García Robayo
I am writing these poems
From inside a lion,
And it’s rather dark in here.
So please excuse the handwriting
Which may not be too clear.
Shel Silverstein, It’s Dark in Here
PART I
Waiting for a Hurricane
1
Living by the sea is both good and bad for exactly the same reason: the world ends at the horizon. That is, the world never ends. And you always expect too much. At
