Such Small Hands
Autor Andrés Barba Traducere de Lisa Dillman Cuvânt după de Edmund Whiteen Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 apr 2017
“Every once in a while a novel does not record reality but creates a whole new reality, one that casts a light on our darkest feelings. Kafka did that. Bruno Schulz did that. Now the Spanish writer Andrés Barba has done it with the terrifying Such Small Hands.”—Edmund White
Life changes at the orphanage the day seven-year-old Marina shows up. She is different from the other girls: at once an outcast and object of fascination. As Marina struggles to find her place, she invents a game whose rules are dictated by a haunting violence. Written in hypnotic, lyrical prose, alternating between Marina’s perspective and the choral we of the other girls, Such Small Hands evokes the pain of loss and the hunger for acceptance.
Life changes at the orphanage the day seven-year-old Marina shows up. She is different from the other girls: at once an outcast and object of fascination. As Marina struggles to find her place, she invents a game whose rules are dictated by a haunting violence. Written in hypnotic, lyrical prose, alternating between Marina’s perspective and the choral we of the other girls, Such Small Hands evokes the pain of loss and the hunger for acceptance.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781945492006
ISBN-10: 1945492007
Pagini: 108
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Transit Books
Colecția Transit Books
ISBN-10: 1945492007
Pagini: 108
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Transit Books
Colecția Transit Books
Recenzii
"A darkly evocative work about young girls, grief, and the unsettling, aching need to belong."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Barba explores what the dynamics of an orphanage reveal about any insular community and the trials of its inevitable outcast."—Idra Novey, author of Ways to Disappear
“Andrés Barba needs no advice. He has already created a world that is perfectly realized and has a craft that is inappropriate for a writer of his age."—Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
"In my opinion, Barba has become an essential writer."—Rafael Chirbes, author of On the Edge
“Andrés Barba is one of several impressive writers from Spain at work on fiction that brilliantly dissects the business of being alive.”—Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times
"An unsettling, tightly controlled book."—Stephen Sparks, Green Apple Books (San Francisco)
"Such Small Hands is a stick of dynamite. Nothing like having your world rearranged in two sittings."—Mark Haber, Brazos Bookstore (Houston)
"I don't think I've ever read such a massively tiny book. A poignant and truly gratifying novel."—Nick Buzanski, Book Culture (New York)
"In stunning prose, Andrés Barba probes the fissures that words stitch together long enough to form a scar. Love, hate, trauma—they’re tightly coiled in Such Small Hands into that most universal of scars, childhood, and the results, also like childhood, are unsettling."—Brad Johnson, Diesel, A Bookstore (Oakland)
"Andrés Barba's magnificent novel will haunt you, and continue to haunt you when you least expect it."—Caitlin Luce Baker, University Book Store (Seattle)
"Barba explores what the dynamics of an orphanage reveal about any insular community and the trials of its inevitable outcast."—Idra Novey, author of Ways to Disappear
“Andrés Barba needs no advice. He has already created a world that is perfectly realized and has a craft that is inappropriate for a writer of his age."—Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
"In my opinion, Barba has become an essential writer."—Rafael Chirbes, author of On the Edge
“Andrés Barba is one of several impressive writers from Spain at work on fiction that brilliantly dissects the business of being alive.”—Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times
"An unsettling, tightly controlled book."—Stephen Sparks, Green Apple Books (San Francisco)
"Such Small Hands is a stick of dynamite. Nothing like having your world rearranged in two sittings."—Mark Haber, Brazos Bookstore (Houston)
"I don't think I've ever read such a massively tiny book. A poignant and truly gratifying novel."—Nick Buzanski, Book Culture (New York)
"In stunning prose, Andrés Barba probes the fissures that words stitch together long enough to form a scar. Love, hate, trauma—they’re tightly coiled in Such Small Hands into that most universal of scars, childhood, and the results, also like childhood, are unsettling."—Brad Johnson, Diesel, A Bookstore (Oakland)
"Andrés Barba's magnificent novel will haunt you, and continue to haunt you when you least expect it."—Caitlin Luce Baker, University Book Store (Seattle)
Notă biografică
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.
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.
Descriere
Shirley Jackson meets The Virgin Suicides, set at an all-girls orphanage.