{"product_id":"the-animal-on-the-rock-paperback","title":"The Animal on the Rock - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniela Tarazona\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLizzie Davis\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eKevin Gerry Dunn\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe sun gives me comfort. The temperature outside calibrates the temperature of my body, and I know I am immortal when I'm on a rock.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter Irma's mother dies, she boards a plane to the coast. Soon she is consumed by strange dreams and irrational fears, and her body begins to transform in ways as unexpected as they are natural. The skin over her joints grows thick and scaly, her eyes take on a yellow gleam, and the border between reality and delirium becomes first elastic, then irrelevant. As the world around her tips out of balance-the weather turning volatile, strangers issuing cryptic warnings--she returns again and again to the rock where she undergoes metamorphosis: a series of radical mutations that enable her to survive.Elemental and prophetic, intimate and universal, \u003ci\u003eThe Animal on the Rock\u003c\/i\u003e bears witness to the terror and magnificence of being a child, a parent, a changing animal. A profoundly biological and introspective novel that lies somewhere between clinical record and fever dream.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDaniela Tarazona\u003c\/strong\u003e (Mexico City, 1975) is the author of \u003cem\u003eDivided Island\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the prestigious Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize and published by Deep Vellum in 2024. In 2012, she published the novel \u003cem\u003eEl beso de la liebre\u003c\/em\u003e (Alfaguara), which was shortlisted for the Las Américas Prize in 2013. In 2020, the book \u003cem\u003eClarice Lispector: La mirada en el jardín\u003c\/em\u003e (Lumen) was published, co-written by Tarazona and Nuria Mel. Her work has been translated into English and French. She has been a fellow of Mexico's Young Artists program and is currently a member of the FONCA fund's National Network of Artists. In 2011, she was recognized as one of twenty-five Latin American literary secrets by the Guadalajara International Book Fair. \u003cem\u003eThe Animal on the Rock\u003c\/em\u003e was her debut novel, and is her second to be translated into English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLizzie Davis\u003c\/strong\u003e is a translator, a writer, and former senior editor at Coffee House Press. Her recent translations include Juan Cárdenas's \u003cem\u003eOrnamental\u003c\/em\u003e (a finalist for the 2021 PEN Translation Prize) and \u003cem\u003eThe Devil of the Provinces\u003c\/em\u003e; Elena Medel's \u003cem\u003eThe Wonders\u003c\/em\u003e, co-translated with Thomas Bunstead; and work by Valeria Luiselli, Pilar Fraile Amador, and Daniela Tarazona.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKevin Gerry Dunn\u003c\/strong\u003e is a ghostwriter and Spanish\/English translator whose book-length projects include \u003cem\u003eEasy Reading\u003c\/em\u003e by Cristina Morales (for which he received an English PEN Award and a PEN\/Heim Grant) and work by Paul B. Preciado, María Bastarós, Elaine Vilar Madruga, Ousman Umar, Daniela Tarazona, Javier Castillo, Paco Cerdà, and Cristian Perfumo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 100\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 09, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44379308982374,"sku":"9781646053971","price":24.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/llXuGC-OQs9781646053971.webp?v=1768918480","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-animal-on-the-rock-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}