Alone

Carlota Gurt Davi is a writer and translator from Barcelona. In 2019, she won the prestigious Merce Rodoreda award for her collection of short stories Cabalgar toda la noche. Alone is her first novel.Adrian Nathan West grew up in the United States and lives in Spain. He has translated more than twenty books from Spanish, Catalan, and German. He is the author of The Aesthetics of Degradation and My Father's Diet. His essays and criticism have appeared in the New York Review of Books, the TLS and many others.

"A real literary 'tour de force' with a totemic protagonist installed in a place full of mystery." * Time Out (Spain) * "Gurt knows how to marry the mundane with the transcendent (...), creating high poetic tension." * La Vanguardia * "Loneliness is not the only character in the novel: it talks about the longed-for freedom, the rediscovery of one's own identity, sexuality or the connection with nature, themes that transform the reader." * El Nacional * "Carlota Gurt proves to have an indomitable narrative power." * El Pais * "An exceptional novel." * ElDiario.es * "This is Carlota Gurt's first novel, but it feels like her fifth or sixth. It's a story that stays inside you long after reaching the end." * Susana Santaolalla (RNE) *