Un Amor
Translated from Spanish by Katie Whittemore.
- £12.99
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- Paperback published on 04/06/2024
- Page count: 184 pages
- ISBN: 9781908670977
Quick take
A claustrophobic story of desire and small town unease in the vein of Dogville or Coetzee’s Disgrace.
Why we love it
Sarah Mesa’s writing – and Katie Whittemore’s translation – is minimalist but precise. The prose paints a vivid picture of a small Spanish village, its tensions, and its inner darkness. In one sentence she can bring a character into being, leaving us wanting to dig deeper below the surface.
Synopsis
Nat, a translator, finds herself in the small Spanish village of La Escapa. She rents a crumbling house from a landlord who scares her. Her neigbours strike her as judgemental and closed-minded. She gets a dog, who causes her nothing but trouble despite her best efforts to tame him. She makes a friend, an ally, but even that relationship is tense.
Things start to shift when the roof of her house starts to leak. Hesitant to involve the landlord, she finds herself in an unusual position when one of the town’s residents offer to fix it. But is she willing to pay the price?
About the author
Published in the UK for the first time by Peirene Press, Sara Mesa is the author of eight works of fiction, including Scar (winner of the Ojo Critico Prize), Four by Four (a finalist for the Herralde Prize), An Invisible Fire (winner of the Premio Málaga de Novela), Among the Hedges, and La Familia. Her works have been translated into eighteen different languages, and she has been widely praised for her concise, sharp writing style.
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