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Patricia Esteban Erlés, 1972, is a Spanish journalist and author. She has published three collections of stories. Her first novel, “The Black Mothers” won the Dos Passos Prize in 2017.
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That’s the way life is: you push a button, and life turns on. —Clarice Lispector Leonora and Adelino were an old-fashioned couple. They had just turned eighty, and they shook with fear when they blew out the candles on their birthday cake. They had begun to suspect that the world was continuously coming apart […]
There’s a theory, quite well-known but difficult to prove, about the psychic powers of animals. Of most animals. How they can sense magnetic fields, electrical fluctuations, pregnancies, divorces, how they predict full moons. How, breathless, transfixed, and bristling, they can stare at a white wall, white, where there’s no sign of life, bewitched by an […]
Almudena Sánchez (Palma de Mallorca, 1985) is a regular contributor to the web sites Ámbito Cultural and Libros, Instrucciones de Uso, where she writes reviews and interviews. Her work was included in the collection: “Under 30: Anthology of New Spanish Storytellers”, and received the Three Yellow Roses prize for short fiction. La acústica de los iglús […]
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836 – 1870) was a Spanish Romantic poet and writer (mostly short stories), also a playwright, literary columnist, and talented in drawing. Today he is considered one of the most important figures in Spanish literature. He was moderately well known during his life, but it was after his death that most of […]
I DO not know whether this is history which seems like a tale, or a tale which seems like history; what I can affirm is that in its core it contains a truth, a truth supremely sad, which in all likelihood I, with my imaginative tendencies, will be one of the last to take to […]
On the Night of San Juan, Nana built a gigantic fire. She built it in the middle of the garden, and it was several metres tall. On the Night of San Juan, you couldn’t breathe for all the dry grass that folks were burning after collecting it all year long. Billows of smoke joined the […]
Her debut novel, Panza de Burro, was first published in Spain to great acclaim. In 2021, Andrea Abreu was included in Granta‘s new selection in a decade of the Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists. Photograph © Alex de la Torre
Julia knocked on his door for the third time, looked through the keyhole without managing to see anything, and strode moodily up and down the roof terrace. She now realised that she should have done something several days earlier, when she found out that her brother was keeping something secret from her, before the whole […]
The first note the Alberts’ son furtively slipped into my pocket looked like a cryptic puzzle. The words were written in concentric circles and this is what they said: Angry casserole, Smuts or minks. Crosses or lizards. The night was bitter even though the cockroaches were weeping. More Pot. I remembered Tomás Albert’s strange […]
It was the talk of the town. What a miracle! It’s not every day that a man in his eighties goes to the altar with a fifteen year old. To be precise, Inesiña, the niece of the parish priest of Gondelle, was fifteen years and two months old when her own uncle blessed her marriage […]
‘I’m sorry,’ says the girl. ‘You’re mistaken.’ I listen to her without batting an eyelid, nodding my head as if being mistaken were the most natural thing in the world. Because there’s no other explanation. I’ve made a mistake. And I do a quick mental run through all the other times I might have made […]
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