Andrés Barba

"San Cristóbal 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,...

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 WhiteLife 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...

En este deslumbrante debut, Jaiver Fuentes relata la tumutuosa y apasionada historie de amor entre do Jovesnes prodedentes de mundos muy distintos en el transurso de un verano extraordinario en España. Una historia que invita a reflexionar sobre la identidad, las diferencias de clase, el sentimiento de pertenencia y el deseo.