ANDRÉS 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.

'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