Humo entre los Arboles

Shortlisted for the Goldsmith's Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize and the James Tait Black Award. Dive in to a tale of love and loathing with the beach read of the summer. Kathy is a writer. Kathy is getting married. It’s the summer of 2017 and the whole world is falling apart. From a Tuscan hotel for the super-rich to a Brexit-paralysed UK, Kathy spends the first summer of her forties trying to adjust to making a lifelong commitment just as Trump is tweeting the world into nuclear war. But it’s not only Kathy who’s changing. Political, social and natural landscapes are all in peril. Fascism ...

Premio Tiflos de Cuento en su XXVIII edición (2018)."El ajedrez es como la vida, o quizá la vida es como el ajedrez", dice Rodolfo Cardoso en la primera de estas tres historias, que podrían constituir otro Manual de perdedores. Hasta Sancho Panza le recordó a don Quijote tan "Brava comparación..., que, mientras dura el juego, cada pieza tiene su particular oficio, y, en acabándose el juego, todas se mezclan, juntan y barajan, y dan con ellas en una bolsa, que es como dar con la vida en la sepultura".Perdedores. Tres Arturos (Pomar, Duperier, Barea) y un general republicano, que además...

Eveline Clausen, the troubled protagonist, is the daughter of a German father and Jewish mother, who grows up during the ascension of Nazism. An autobiographical character that loses her naivety, innocence, begins to live avidly and intensely to dispel all the fears she's had since childhood. The men that pass through her life are similar means to avoid the hard reality of persecution and hunger, though they are also deceived by this young woman.

Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Steven Holland-Wempe, Sandra Kingery, and the author. "This debut collection is amazing. The finesse of the storytelling is a pleasure on every page. The importance of immigrant issues becomes not a political statement so much as an epic story of all peoples' survival. Although the stories are not linked and take place in various geographies—China, Europe, the United States, and Mexico—still, the continuity remains with the heroine figure. She is a woman who travels through miseries, between the worlds of the living and the...