Friendship makes life worth living, and worth ending too.
Eufrasia Vela is a caregiver-it's not just her job. But when she begins working with Doña Carmen, a bedridden elderly woman who spends her days staring out the window at her now-obstructed view of the sea, she confronts the limits to her ability to help. That is, until Doña Carmen makes a big, last request: to transform her caretaking from helping her stay alive to helping her die. A good death has much in common with a good life, after all, and incapacity, loneliness, and isolation are devastations that a compassionate friend can help ease. Dignity, community, respect, and generosity-they're what Eufrasia offers her clients, and what their friendship offers her. One Hundred Guinea Pigs is the lifegiving, warmhearted novel about euthanasia you didn't know you needed.
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Gustavo Rodríguez is a Peruvian writer, and one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Latin American literature. His novel One Hundred Guinea Pigs , first published in Spanish, won the prestigious Alfaguara Prize in 2023 and is his first book to appear in English.
Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor and translator. His work has won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award, and has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. His translations for Charco Press span Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Peru.