Such small hands
It was once a happy city; we were once happy girls. Life changes at the orphanage the day Marina shows up. As she tries to find her place, she creates a game whose rules are dictated by a haunting violence. In hypnotic, lyrical prose, Andrés Barba evokes the pain of loss and the hunger for acceptan...
| Main Author: | Barba, Andrés, 1975- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Oakland, CA :
Transit Books,
2017.
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| Summary: |
It was once a happy city; we were once happy girls. Life changes at the orphanage the day Marina shows up. As she tries to find her place, she creates a game whose rules are dictated by a haunting violence. In hypnotic, lyrical prose, Andrés Barba evokes the pain of loss and the hunger for acceptance -- a masterwork from the Spanish writer at the peak of his powers. |
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| Physical Description: |
105 p. |
| ISBN: |
9781945492006 1945492007 |
| Author Notes: |
Andrés Barba is the one the most lauded contemporary Spanish writers. He is the author of twelve books, including August, October and Rain Over Madrid . In addition to literary fiction, he has written essays, poems, books of photography, and translations of De Quincey and Melville. His books have been translated into ten languages. Lisa Dillman translates from Spanish and Catalan and teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University. Some of her recent translations include Signs Preceding the End of the World , by Yuri Herrera, which won the 2016 Best Translated Book Award; Rain Over Madrid , by Andrés Barba; Monastery , co-translated with Daniel Hahn, by Eduardo Halfon; and Salting the Wound , by Víctor del Árbol. Edmund White has written biographies of Jean Genet, Marcel Proust, and Arthur Rimbaud. He has also written several novels; the most recent is Our Young Man . He teaches creative writing at Princeton. |