X Is Where I Am

Sara Torres is an award-winning Spanish poet and novelist from Gijón. Her debut novel X Is Where I Am (Lo Que Hay ), a major literary success in Spain, won the Javier Morote Award for Best New Author and is the first of her books to be published in English.Maureen Shaughnessy is a writer and translator from Spanish. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review , Brick , AGNI and Asymptote . In 2023, her translation of Belén López Peiró’s Why Did You Come Back Every Summer received an English PEN Translates Award. She lives in Bariloche, Argentina.

"Reading Sara Torres is always an experience whose echo, laden with ramifications, reverberates for an indefinite time in the back room of our psyche." —Vogue"Beautiful, lyrical and moving. [...] A call to overturn everything, as intense as it is brief, that does not seek to please anyone." —Elle"A novel in the style of Virginia Woolf's The Waves, of Djuna Barnes's Nightwood. That is, a narrative text forged from the magma of poetic prose. [...] A fine novel" —The Objective"I see Sara Torres as a reincarnation of all those philosophers, storytellers and poets who shook the foundations of literature with their theories on love, friendship and human relationships. In her narrative there is candour, in her lyricism there is forcefulness and in her ideas, there is a whole display of erudition." —Luna Miguel"A luminous book. It weaves together, in a precious and unique narrative, everything that crosses and hurts us." —María Sánchez , author of LAND OF WOMEN"Everything she touches, what she writes, what she observes, turns to beauty. Her gaze is traversed by poetic cadence to the point of impregnating each of her steps with this soothing, restorative rhythm [...] [X Is Where I Am] reaches heights of melodic virtuosity." —Abril"One of the most beautiful debuts I remember in a long time. [...] About the body, about the need for touch, about that flesh that gives us sex and cancer. [...] It has captivated us and stirred us up a lot." —El Ojo Crítico"A young poet who has revolutionized the world of prose." —El Mundo"A punch where it hurts the most. [...] A novel with a powerful style and a marked confessional tone, X Is Where I Am is all talent, delicacy, a certain provocation, and an author with a great future. A splendid debut." —El Cultural************Praise for Sara TorresWinner of the Javier Morote Award for Best Newcomer.One of El Cultural 's top ten debuts of the year.