"Pilar Adón is our Kafka. She is so because of the estrangement to which she submits her creatures, emerging in narratives that are simple in form, as if they were elementary, primitive stories, but which hide in their elementality the construction of another disturbing world, ravaged by universal values of exclusion of the other. Adón is radical and is always herself. "
——ABC

"These are extraordinary stories. "
——La Opinión de Málaga

★English and Germany translation rights sold.
★One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2025 rentrée in Spain.
★Following her award-winning novel, Of Beasts and Fowls, Pilar Adón presents a volume of spiky and hypnotic short stories about female wrath, and the duel between beauty and horror. Young women who long for calm, a home, to embrace happiness, love, friendship. But what happens when their expectations are frustrated? Adón’s unique literary world exudes a feminine aura of psychological threat and darkness that is totally absorbing.

The characters of the tense, strange and visionary stories by Pilar Adón delve into the mythological concept of wrath, swinging between innocence and perversion, paradise and hell. For these angel-like monsters, after frustration and disappointment all that remains is transgression.

Las iras are the stories of the daughters of error. Earthless creatures who wander eternally under the weight of heaven. Nymphs with a fatal destiny. Serpent virgins. Devouring sisters. Adorable first friends driven to tragedy by inherited shame. Blazing girls succumbing to the rapture of scream and flight. Simple fanatics. There are also rotten fruits that society must keep a special eye on, even if it is against their will. They are seclusion and the search for calm after extreme revenge. And we, at their side, witness the corruption of paradise, the relentless battle between candor and the terrible, serenity and fierceness, also looking into the immensity of the abyss.

In each story, twists and turns will unnerve and surprise, revealing dark truths about our sense of love, of belief, of limits, of fidelity, of belonging, of disappointment, and of the fragility of
our connections with others.

Pilar Adón

She was born in Madrid in 1971. Galaxia Gutenberg published the novels Las efímeras in 2015 and the awarded De bestias y aves in 2022, and the book of stories La vida sumergida in 2017. In 2003 appeared her first novel Las hijas de Sara and in 2005 she received the Premio Ojo Crítico, of Radio Nacional de España (RNE), for her book of stories Viajes inocentes. In 2010 it was published her volume of stories El mes más cruel, for which she was named FNAC Talent. Adón is also the author of Eterno amor, an illustrated nouvelle (2021), and the collections of poems Da dolor, Las órdenes, Mente animal and La hija del cazador (2020, 2018, 2014 and 2011). She has translated works of fiction and essays from English into Spanish (Penelope Fitzgerald, John Fowles, Henry James, Edith Wharton...). Some of her stories and poems have been translated into English, French, Serbian, Rumanian, Czech, Polish, Albanian and Korean.

* Ojo Crítico Prize (Radio Nacional de España)
* New FNAC Talent for El mes más cruel.
* Book of the Year by the Madrid Booksellers Guild for Las órdenes
* XII Francisco Umbral Prize for Best Book of the Year
* XXII Cálamo Award (category La otra mirada)
* National Critics Award 2022
* National Literature Award 2023