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An uncompromisingly honest collection of short stories, examining with unique perspicacity the missteps, mistakes and misunderstanding that define our lives.

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Pride and disgrace.

Nostalgia and revenge.

Tenderness and seduction.

From the dusty backstreets of Santiago and the sun-baked alleyways of impoverished fishing villages to the dark stairwells of urban apartment blocks, Paulina Flores paints an intimate picture of a world in which the shadow of humiliation, of delusion, seduction and sabotage, is never far away. This is a Chile we seldom see in fiction.

With an exceptional eye for human fragility, with unfailing insight and extraordinary tenderness, Humiliation is a mesmerising collection from a rising star of South American literature, translated from the Spanish by Man Booker International Prize finalist Megan McDowell.

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´The magic of Paulina Flores´ writing lies in placing us in that critical moment when everything is about to change, yet everything seems still. A finely tuned literary high-wire act if ever there was one.´
Carlos Fonseca, author of Colonel Lágrimas

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Paulina Flores was born in Chile in 1988. In 2014, she won the Roberto Bola¤o Short Story Prize for her story "Qué vergüenza" ( Humiliation ). Her collection of the same title was published to great acclaim in Chile in 2015 and was an immediate commercial and critical success. She is a laureate of the Chilean Art Critics Circle Prize for Best New Fiction, and when she is not writing, works as a high school teacher.

Megan McDowell has translated books by many contemporary South American and Spanish authors, including Samanta Schweblin´s Man Booker-shortlisted Fever Dream . Her translations have been published in The New Yorker, Harper´s and The Paris Review . She lives in Chile.

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