One of the Guardian Best Books of 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.
Om författaren
Andrés Barba first became known in 2001 when his novel
La hermana de Katia, shortlisted for the Herralde Prize, was published to considerable public and critical acclaim. It was followed by
Ahora tocad música de baile,
Versiones de Teresa, winner of the Torrente Ballester award, and
Agosto, octubre,
Muerte de un caballo, for which he won the 2011 Juan March short novel award,
Ha dejado de llover, and his latest work,
En presencia de un payaso. 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
Jack Holmes and His Friend: A Novel. He teaches creative writing at Princeton.
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