A Luminous Republic. First UK Printing. Signed by the Author

Barba, Andrés

ISBN 10: 1846276934 / ISBN 13: 9781846276934

Verlag: London. Granta Publications, 2020

Beschreibung

London. Granta Books. 2020. First UK Edition/First UK Printing (full number line including 1 on the copyright page). Hard Cover. Crown 8vo 7½" x 5" [19cm x 12.7cm]. 192 pp. Black boards with gilt titles to spine and turquoise endpapers. Originally published in Spain in 2017 by Editorial Anagrama as República Luminosa. Translated into English by Lisa Dillman. Foreword by Edmund White. Flat signed by the author to a paste down at the top of the title page with no dedication. Book and jacket are new. One day, the children begin to show up in the subtropical town of San Cristóbal. Aged between nine and thirteen, the children are covered in dirt and hungry. They beg food, commit small acts of vandalism, play games that don't seem to have any rules, and communicate with each other in a strange language. No one knows where they come from or where they disappear to each night. And then, they rob a supermarket and stab two adults, bringing fear to the town. Thus begins a fearsome and thrilling modern morality tale that retraces the lines between good and evil, the civilised and the wild, and drags our assumptions about childhood and innocence out into the light. The dust jacket will be protected with a new inert archival Brodart sleeve which is removable. Please contact us if you would like any more information or additional images. Postage price quoted outside the UK is for a book up to 1kg using UPS or Transglobal Express. For books sent within the UK, there will be no extra charge for books up to 2kg which are sent by Royal Mail. Postage quoted in the UK is the actual cost (£3.45). All books are sent in protective packing and custom book box. If your book is intended as a gift, please let us know and we will gift wrap it free of charge with a card and any message.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: A Luminous Republic. First UK Printing. Signed by the Author
• Verlag: London. Granta Publications
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1846276934
• ISBN-13: 9781846276934
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: As New
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New
• Gewicht: 350 Gramm
• Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

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Inhaltsangabe

One day, the children begin to show up in the subtropical town of San Cristóbal. Aged between nine and thirteen, the children are covered in dirt and hungry. They beg food, commit small acts of vandalism, play games that don't seem to have any rules, and communicate with each other in a strange language. No one knows where they come from or where they disappear to each night. And then, they rob a supermarket and stab two adults, bringing fear to the town. Thus begins a fearsome and thrilling modern morality tale that retraces the lines between good and evil, the civilised and the wild, and drags our assumptions about childhood and innocence out into the light.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

ANDRÉS BARBA (born in Madrid in 1975), became known in 2001 with La hermana de Katia (finalist of the Herralde prize and brought to the big screen by Mijke de Jong), which was followed by eight more novels that confirmed him as one of the most important Spanish novelists of his generation: Ahora Tocad Música de Baile, Versiones de Teresa (winner of the Torrente Ballester Award), Such Small Hands, August, October, Death of a Horse (winner of the Juan March Award), En Presencia de un Payaso, and A Luminous Republic (winnder of the Herralde Award, finalist for the Gregor Von Rezzori Award). He is also the author of several essays, poetry and he has translated into Spanish the works of authors including Herman Melville, Henry James, Joseph Conrad and Thomas De Quincey. He was chosen by Granta magazine as one of the best young Spanish-language storytellers. His work has been translated into twenty four languages.

LISA DILLMAN is professor of pedagogy at Emory University. In 2016 she won the Best Translated Book Award for Yuri Herrera's Signs Preceding the End of the World. In 2017, her translation of Barba's Such Small Hands was awarded the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.