Only a Little While Here

A Novel

AvMaría Ospina

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Winner of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize • Winner of Colombia’s National Novel Award This prizewinning novel interweaves four animal odysseys in a gripping, adventurous meditation on migration and displacement in the inextricable human and natural worlds.In Only a Little While Here, award-winning author María Ospina evokes the gratification to be found through close, humble observation of nature. With characteristic precision and intensity, Ospina trains our attention on the lives of five creatures: a migratory songbird dazzled by city lights, an orphaned porcupine saved by kindness, two dogs grieving the loss of their human companions, and a determined beetle transported to a vast, unimaginable world. The surprising drama of their lives reveals the fragility and power of belonging, and what it means to create—or lose—a home. Along the way, our narrator models the attentiveness needed to mend the rift between humans and non-human creatures and celebrates animals’ often-overlooked status as witnesses of our shared world. Alive with eagle-eyed curiosity, Only a Little While Here is ecological fiction at its most soul stirring.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-05-07
Mått:140 x 213 x 23 mm
Vikt:306 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Scribner
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Simon & Schuster
ISBN:9781668097083
Översättare:Heather Cleary

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María Ospina was born in Bogotá, Colombia. She’s a professor of Latin American culture at Wesleyan University. Her first book of fiction, the short story collection Azares del cuerpo, was published in Colombia, Chile, and Spain, and was translated into Italian and English (Variations on the Body). Her stories have appeared in Colombian anthologies and in literary magazines in the United States. She has also written extensively about contemporary Colombian culture in light of legacies of extractivism, violence, and war, including the book Memory’s Conundrum: Literature, Film, and Testimony at the Beginning of the 21st Century. Only a Little While Here, winner of the Colombian National Novel Award (2024) and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for Literature (2023) is her first novel.Heather Cleary, a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow, is a translator of poetry and prose from Spanish whose work has been recognized by the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute, the National Book Foundation, English PEN, and the International Booker Prize, among others. The author of The Translator's Visibility: Scenes from Contemporary Latin American Fiction, she holds a PhD from Columbia University and is currently writing a novel about translation and betrayal.

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"Animated by a sense of wonder about animals’ inner lives in a landscape increasingly altered by humans, Ospina’s narrative hints at the radical possibilities of a future shaped by purposeful communion with nature. This is revelatory."—Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Ospina tenderly yet compellingly tackles critical concepts of abandonment, displacement, transition, resiliency, and ultimately, connection in this subtle work of ecofiction."—Booklist “A book that broadens human sensibility.”—El País “Ospina leads us to imagine the everyday lives of species whose survival depends on great wisdom and adaptability.”—Milenio “Surprising and bold… A small and revelatory novel.”—Clarín “A superb exercise in otherness.”—Fernanda Trías, author of Pink Slime “Beautiful, rare, and poetic... It is impossible to resist the tenderness and sharpness of Ospina’s words.”—Mónica Ojeda, author of Jawbone