The Mountain Woman: A Novel
Feb 2027 · Sold by Simon and Schuster
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From the award-winning author of Pink Slime comes a hypnotic novel of rage, solitude, and metamorphosis, set on a mountain where the living and the dead refuse to stay silent.
Winner of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize
A woman lives alone on the slope of a mist-covered mountain, hired by a man she has never seen to patrol the boundary between the cloud forest and the quarry that is slowly devouring it. In her notebooks, she records her solitary days, her fierce desires, the language of her landscape, and the violence that shaped her childhood.
One day, a body appears in her yard. And then another, and another. As the dead repeat their silent message, the woman finds in the act of tending to their remains an answer that escaped her among the living, and she begins to form an intimate bond with the mountain that shelters her, mirrors her, and demands to be heard.
At once earthy and visionary, tender and ferocious, The Mountain Woman is a novel about the violences women inherit and the forms of life that persist in the ruins. In prose of rare intensity, Fernanda Trías gives voice to a world beyond the human, where care can be an act of rebellion and language must be broken open to tell the story of the harm we do to ourselves, others, and the world we love.
Winner of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize
A woman lives alone on the slope of a mist-covered mountain, hired by a man she has never seen to patrol the boundary between the cloud forest and the quarry that is slowly devouring it. In her notebooks, she records her solitary days, her fierce desires, the language of her landscape, and the violence that shaped her childhood.
One day, a body appears in her yard. And then another, and another. As the dead repeat their silent message, the woman finds in the act of tending to their remains an answer that escaped her among the living, and she begins to form an intimate bond with the mountain that shelters her, mirrors her, and demands to be heard.
At once earthy and visionary, tender and ferocious, The Mountain Woman is a novel about the violences women inherit and the forms of life that persist in the ruins. In prose of rare intensity, Fernanda Trías gives voice to a world beyond the human, where care can be an act of rebellion and language must be broken open to tell the story of the harm we do to ourselves, others, and the world we love.
From the award-winning author of Pink Slime comes a hypnotic novel of rage, solitude, and metamorphosis, set on a mountain where the living and the dead refuse to stay silent.
Winner of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize
A woman lives alone on the slope of a mist-covered mountain, hired by a m...
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About the author
Fernanda Trías is an award-winning Uruguayan writer based in Colombia, and the author of four novels and two short story collections. Her novels The Rooftop and Pink Slime have been published in English, and translation rights to her work have been sold in twenty languages. Pink Slime was longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature and received Uruguay’s National Literature Prize, the Bartolomé Hidalgo Critics’ Award, and Mexico’s Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize. In 2025, Trías became only the second writer in the history of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize to win the award twice, receiving it for The Mountain Woman, which was widely featured on best-of-the-year lists across the Spanish-speaking world.
Fernanda Trías is an award-winning Uruguayan writer based in Colombia, and the author of four novels and two short story collections. Her novels The Rooftop and Pink Slime have been published in English, and translation rights to her work have been sold in twenty languages. Pink Slime was longlis...
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