In the title story, a young woman covers herself in rooster blood and intestines to drive away older men who try to take advantage of her. Heralding a brutal and singular new voice, Cockfight explores the power of the home to both create and destroy those within it.Īmpuero's grotesque, unflinching English-language debut looks at women's experience of trauma and survival in an unnamed South American country. With violence masquerading as love, characters spend their lives trapped reenacting their past traumas. A family’s maids witness a horrible cycle of abuse, a girl is auctioned off by a gang of criminals, and two sisters find themselves at the mercy of their spiteful brother.
In lucid and compelling prose, Ampuero sheds light on the hidden aspects of the home: the grotesque realities of family, coming of age, religion, and class struggle. Named one of the ten best fiction books of 2018 by the New York Times en Español, Cockfight is the debut work by Ecuadorian writer and journalist María Fernanda Ampuero. “Ampuero’s literary voice is tough and beautiful at once: her stories are exquisite and dangerous objects.” -Yuri Herrera, author of Signs Preceding the End of the World This Ecuadorian short story collection explores domestic horrors and everyday violence, a "grotesque, unflinching" portrait of twenty-first-century Latin America (Publishers Weekly).
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