Nyhet

Family

AvSara Mesa

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Del i serien Peirene Press Ltd

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Beskrivning

There are no secrets in this family!' proclaims Damian, the father, triumphantly. A secular idealist obsessed with morality and order, he is blind to the cracks in his home's foundations, the oppression that pervades it, and the elaborate fictions his wife and four children devise to survive it. While he quotes Gandhi and expounds on the virtues of education, charity and thrift, the children retreat into humiliated compliance or seek freedom in the most dangerous of places.Through a mosaic of interlinked tales, spanning decades, acclaimed Spanish author Sara Mesa turns her unflinching gaze to the family as institution: the ideologies that shape it, the silences that underpin it, and the authority you can never quite escape.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-07-01
Mått:125 x 198 x 25 mm
Vikt:466 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Peirene Press Ltd
Antal sidor:498
Förlag:Peirene Press Ltd
ISBN:9781916806269
Översättare:Katie Whittemore
Utmärkelser:Winner of Premio Calamo Extraordinario 2022 2022

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Sara Mesa is the author of eight works of fiction, including Un Amor (Selected as the 'Best Book of 2020' by El Pais, La Vanguardia, El Cultural and El Correo, and now a feature film), Scar (winner of the Ojo Critico Prize), Four by Four (a finalist for the Herralde Prize), An Invisible Fire (winner of the Premio Malaga de Novela), Among the Hedges, and The Family. Her work has been translated into eighteen languages, and she has been widely praised for her concise, sharp writing style. Her novels Un Amor and Four By Four were published by Peirene Press in 2024 and 2025.

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'In wonderfully unsettling prose, Sara Mesa traces strange and delicate constellations that glow with psychological insight.' - Chloe Aridjis'Sara Mesa's writing is mysterious and fascinating: her characters brush against the limits in environments of fierce false calm.' - Mariana Enriquez'When I read Sara Mesa, I'm there in the Wild West, sifting through the sand. There is a restless enjoyment, an inhospitable beauty, in my sieve. And then something miraculous when gold appears before my eyes.' - Eva Baltasar