The Week of Colors

Garro, Elena

ISBN 10: 1949641899 / ISBN 13: 9781949641899

Published by Two Lines Press, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Week of Colors
• Publisher: Two Lines Press
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1949641899
• ISBN 13: 9781949641899
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Short stories from the “cursed mother of magical realism” (El Mundo), now in English for the first time  

A woman flits between two realities centuries apart, as scenes from the violent conquest of Mexico bleed their way into her comfortable contemporary life. Two little girls visit the home of a sorcerer who tortures women named after the days of the week. Girls become dogs, a laborer hides human bones in bricks he’ll use to build a new development, and an old woman appears at an acquaintance’s door one night with a knife and a bone-chilling confession.

With The Week of Colors, Elena Garro laid the groundwork for the literary movements that would shape the landscape of Latin American fiction and beyond. Here you’ll find the early roots of magical realism, feminist horror, and anticolonial speculative fiction. In The Week of Colors, Garro highlights the violence in our history, our homes, and our hearts, in vivid color.

About the Authors

Elena Garro (1916–1998) was a novelist, playwright, short story writer, journalist, and the inventor of magical realism, though she rejected the term as “a cheap marketing label.” The author of over 40 books, she wrote about the violence embedded in everyday life, with a focus on children, women, and indigenous people.

Megan McDowell has translated many of the most important Latin American writers working today. Her translations have won numerous prizes, including the National Book Award, and have been nominated for the International Booker Prize four times. She is from Richmond, Kentucky, and lives in Barcelona, Spain.