Scar
Will be published approx. on 12. October 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-1-943150-27-4 (ISBN)
Description
Sonia meets Knut in an online literary forum and begins a long-distance relationship with him that gradually turns to obsession. Though Sonia needs to create distance when Knut becomes too absorbing, she also yearns for a less predictable existence. Alternately attracted to and repulsed by Knut, Sonia begins a secret double life of theft and betrayal in which she will ultimately be trapped for years.
Reviews / Votes
"Scar is an original story, written with a concise, direct, fast, transparent style and almost with the asepsis of a surgeon." * RTVE (Spain) * "A good, modern novel of two young people learning reciprocally about adult life . . . Sara Mesa confirms our good expectations." * El Mundo * "(She) consolidates a new narrative voice that is able to bear important fruits in the Spanish novel of the 21st century." * El Mundo * "[It has] the ability to turn the stereotyped concept of seduction back into its most bitter facets: possession, vanity and the need to feel fetishized." * RNE Narrative Critical Eye Award (Spain) * "An atmosphere that evokes the prison labyrinths of Piranessi and the suffocation of the Dostoievskian underground." * El Pais *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Normal, IL
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
248 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-943150-27-4 (9781943150274)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Sara Mesa (Madrid, 1976) has lived in Seville since childhood. She is an award-winning author of poetry, fiction, and short stories. In addition to Cicatriz [Scar], her fiction and short stories include Mala letra [Bad handwriting] and Cuatro por cuatro [Four by Four]. Adriana Nodal-Tarafa is professional translator and a graduate of University of Houston-Victoria and Dalkey Archive Press's Applied Literary Translation program. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the University of Washington.