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Such Small Hands (Paperback)
Andres Barba; Translated by Lisa Dillman
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Her father died instantly, her mother in the hospital. She has
learned to say this flatly and without emotion, the way she says
her name (Marina), her doll's name (also Marina) and her age
(seven). Her parents were killed in a car crash and now she lives
in the orphanage with the other little girls. But Marina is not
like the other little girls. In the curious, hyperreal, feverishly
serious world of childhood, Marina and the girls play games of
desire and warfare. The daily rituals of playtime, lunchtime and
bedtime are charged with a horror; horror is licked by the dark
flames of love. When Marina introduces the girls to Marina the
Doll, she sets in motion a chain of events from which there can be
no release. With shades of Daphne du Maurier, Shirley Jackson,
Guillermo Del Toro and Mariana Enriquez, Such Small Hands is a
beautifully controlled tour-de-force, a bedtime story to keep
readers awake.
One day, the children begin to show up in the subtropical town of
San Cristobal, unwashed and hungry. No one knows where they have
come from or where they disappear to each night. And then they rob
a supermarket and stab two adults, bringing fear to the town. So
begins a thrilling morality tale that retraces the lines between
good and evil, the civil and the wild, dragging our assumptions
about childhood and innocence out into the light.
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A Luminous Republic (Paperback)
Andres Barba; Translated by Lisa Dillman; Foreword by Edmund White
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"Wholly compelling." --Colm Toibin "A captivating piece of
storytelling."--Boston Globe A new novel from a Spanish literary
star about the arrival of feral children to a tropical city in
Argentina, and the quest to stop them from pulling the place into
chaos. San Cristobal was an unremarkable city--small, newly
prosperous, contained by rain forest and river. But then the
children arrived. No one knew where they came from: thirty-two
kids, seemingly born of the jungle, speaking an unknown language.
At first they scavenged, stealing food and money and absconding to
the trees. But their transgressions escalated to violence, and then
the city's own children began defecting to join them. Facing
complete collapse, municipal forces embark on a hunt to find the
kids before the city falls into irreparable chaos. Narrated by the
social worker who led the hunt, A Luminous Republic is a
suspenseful, anguished fable that "could be read as Lord of the
Flies seen from the other side, but that would rob Barba of the
profound originality of his world" (Juan Gabriel Vasquez).
The classic literary tale of a young girl's adventures in a fantasy
world comes to life in this new translation. Alice, an English girl
bored of sitting on the riverbank with her sister, sees a white
rabbit run past, wearing clothing and a pocket watch and talking to
himself. She follows the creature down a rabbit hole and is soon
immersed in the fanciful world of the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter
and his tea party, and the Queen of Hearts' game of croquet, where
Alice must use a flamingo for a mallet and a hedgehog for a ball.
Written with the intention of exploring the character of Alice as
well as the magical world that she enters, this enduring story is
accompanied by whimsical illustrations. "El cuento clasico de las
aventuras de una joven en un mundo de fantasia cobra vida en esta
nueva traduccion. Alicia, una nina inglesa aburrida de sentarse en
la orilla del rio con su hermana, ve un conejo blanco corriendo
delante, vestido con ropa y un reloj de bolsillo y hablando consigo
mismo. Ella sigue la criatura hasta meterse en su madriguera de
conejo y pronto esta inmersa en el mundo fantastico del Gato de
Cheshire, el Sombrerero y su fiesta de te y el juego de croquet de
la Reina de Corazones, en el que Alicia tiene que usar un flamenco
como mazo y un erizo como pelota. Escrito con la intencion de
explorar el personaje de Alicia asi como el mundo magico en que
entra, este cuento perdurable es acompanado de ilustraciones
caprichosas."
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