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.

"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."