Juan Gómez Bárcena's short-story collection The Sleeping was hailed as one of the best debuts of the year in 2012 by El Cultural. The Sky Over Lima is his first novel. He lives in Madrid, Spain.Andrea Rosenberg is a translator from the Spanish and Portuguese and an editor of the Buenos Aires Review. She lives in North Carolina, USA.

‘Here’s a tale with the subtlest of stings in it, dark wit and telescopic perspective aplenty. And then there's the intoxicating folly of the games that the protagonists play with fantasy and fact, malice, tenderness, ambition, envy and other forces that strike at our most vulnerable selves. I’ll be thinking of these characters, what they longed to create and what they managed to despoil, for a long time.’

Juan Gómez Bárcena's short-story collection The Sleeping was hailed as one of the best debuts of the year in 2012 by El Cultural. The Sky Over Lima is his first novel. He lives in Madrid, Spain.Andrea Rosenberg is a translator from the Spanish and Portuguese and an editor of the Buenos Aires Review. She lives in North Carolina, USA.

‘Here’s a tale with the subtlest of stings in it, dark wit and telescopic perspective aplenty. And then there's the intoxicating folly of the games that the protagonists play with fantasy and fact, malice, tenderness, ambition, envy and other forces that strike at our most vulnerable selves. I’ll be thinking of these characters, what they longed to create and what they managed to despoil, for a long time.’