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Recipes for Sad Women
héctor AbAd
Translated from the Spanish by Anne mcLeAn
A book of ambiguous genre and delicate, playful wisdom,
Recipes for Sad Women is not a novel and not a cookbook.
But should you wish to know what food to prepare in the
case of sobbing or of nervousness, what the closest thing to
dinosaur meat is (and therefore the best remedy for guilt),
or what to eat when you are perfectly healthy and enjoying
reciprocated love, you will find no better collection of
recipes on the market.
An acclaimed novelist, essayist, journalist and translator,
Abad’s eccentric, sensual and wry guide is neither
unserious, nor entirely plausible in its advice. Elegant,
melancholic, funny and full of morsels of insight, it is deftly
and movingly instructional on the proper appreciation of
sadness
Publication: 5th JuLy 2012
ISBN 9781906548636 •156pp • £10
Héctor Abad Faciolince (b. 1958) is a novelist, poet, essayist, editor and translator.
He won the Colombian National Short Story Prize at the age of twenty-one and has twice
won the Símon Bolívar Prize for journalism. In 1987, his father was murdered by Colombian
paramilitaries and Abad was forced into exile, moving first to Spain and then to Italy. He
published his first book, Malos Pensiamentos (1991) while in exile, but it was only when he
returned to Colombia in 1993 that he became a full-time writer. Abad is one of a new generation
of iconoclastic Colombian writers looking for new ways of depicting reality in general, and
Colombian contemporary society in particular. His style shares an affinity with Umberto Eco
and Italo Calvino’s; a champion of stylistic experimentation and flexibility, he favours ‘artists
who have changed (Picasso)’ and ‘writers who search (Calvino)’, over those who pursue a
single unchanging style. His Oblivion: a Memoir was published in English in 2011.