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Written in three parts
The Things We've Seen is a dazzling and anarchic exploration of social relations.
About the author
Agustín Fernández Mallo was born in La Coruña in 1967. He is a qualified physicist and since 2000 has been collaborating with various cultural publications in order to highlight the connection between art and science. His Nocilla Trilogy, published between 2006 and 2009, brought about an important shift in contemporary Spanish writing and paved the way for the birth of a new generation of authors, known as the 'Nocilla Generation'. He has also published a book of stories,
El hacedor (de Borges),
remake, and the essay
Postpoesía, hacia un nuevo paradigma. His poetry is collected in the volume
Ya nadie se llamará como yo + Poesía reunida (1998-2012) and his latest novel,
Limbo, was published in Spain in 2014.
Thomas Bunstead is a writer and translator based in East Sussex. He has translated some of the leading Spanish-language writers working today, including Yuri Herrera, Enrique Vila-Matas, and Juan Villoro, and his own writing has appeared in
The White Review and the
Times Literary Supplement. He is an editor at the translation journal
In Other Words.
Summary
In The Things We’ve Seen, his most ambitious and accomplished novel to date, Agustín Fernández Mallo captures the strangeness and interconnectedness of human existence in the twenty-first century.
