A Luminous Republic
Published on 3. June 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-84627-694-1 (ISBN)
Description
One day, the children begin to show up in the subtropical town of San Cristobal, unwashed and hungry. No one knows where they have come from or where they disappear to each night. And then they rob a supermarket and stab two adults, bringing fear to the town.
So begins a thrilling morality tale that retraces the lines between good and evil, the civil and the wild, dragging our assumptions about childhood and innocence out into the light.
So begins a thrilling morality tale that retraces the lines between good and evil, the civil and the wild, dragging our assumptions about childhood and innocence out into the light.
Reviews / Votes
'A Luminous Republic has all the stark power of a folk-tale or a fable. It also raises concerns that are pressing and contemporary-about the function and source of language, about public paranoia and hysteria, about the idea of community and how information spreads. At the book's center is a moving personal story about memory and loss. The narrative is engaging, at times playful, wholly compelling' - Colm Toibin'At first you will feel fear, but what you feel next is something much deeper, disturbing and luminous' - Samanta Schweblin
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
150 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84627-694-1 (9781846276941)
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ANDRES BARBA is the author of twelve novels, including Such Small Hands (Granta, 2017). He has worked as a teacher of Spanish to foreigners at Complutense University in Madrid and now gives writing workshops. He was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young Spanish Novelists. His writing has been translated into twenty 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.
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.