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by Sara Mesa
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Availability:In StockContributor:Sara Mesa, Katie Whittemore (Translator), Frances Riddle (Translator)Series:Spanish LiteraturePublish date:2022-07-26Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:Open LetterISBN-13:9781948830553ISBN-10:1948830558UPC:9781948830553Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Women, World LiteratureBook Topic:SpainSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC94X68QV5

From the author of the highly acclaimed Four by Four and Among the Hedges comes a collection of unsettling, captivating stories.

The eleven stories in this collection approach themes of childhood and adolescence, guilt and redemption, power and freedom. There are children who resist authority and experience the process of growing up with shock, and loneliness; alienated young girls whose rebellion lies under the surface--subterranean, furious and impotent; people who are tormented--or not--by regret and doubt, addicted to feelings of culpability; men who take advantage of women and adults who exercise power over children with a disturbing degree of control; kids abandoned by their parents; the suicide of the elderly and the young; lives that hide crimes--both real and imagined. Eschewing cosmopolitanism in favor of the micro-world of her characters, Mesa depicts a reality that is messy and disturbing, on even the smallest scale of an individual life, a single family.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Open LetterISBN-13:9781948830553ISBN-10:1948830558UPC:9781948830553Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Women, World LiteratureBook Topic:SpainSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC94X68QV5

Sara Mesa is the author of eight works of fiction, including Scar (winner of the Ojo Critico Prize), Four by Four (a finalist for the Herralde Prize), An Invisible Fire (winner of the Premio Málaga de Novela), Among the Hedges, and Un amor, which was named by several Spanish newspapers as the book of the year for 2020. Her works have been translated into more than ten different languages, and she has been widely praised for her concise, sharp writing style.

Katie Whittemore is graduate of the University of NH (BA), Cambridge University (M.Phil), and Middlebury College (MA), and was a 2018 Bread Loaf Translators Conference participant. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Two Lines, The Arkansas International, The Common Online, Gulf Coast Magazine Online, The Los Angeles Review, The Brooklyn Rail, and InTranslation. Current projects include novels by Spanish authors Sara Mesa, Javier Serena, Aliocha Coll, Aroa Moreno Durán, Nuria Labari, Katixa Agirre, and Juan Gómez Bárcena.


Publisher: Open Letter

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Sara Mesa, Katie Whittemore (Translator), Frances Riddle (Translator)

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Sara Mesa

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