A Luminous Republic

Lord of the Flies meets Javier Marias, a dark and glinty literary gem with huge potential.

About the author

ANDRÉS BARBA (born in Madrid in 1975), became known in 2001 with La hermana de Katia (finalist of the Herralde prize and brought to the big screen by Mijke de Jong), which was followed by eight more novels that confirmed him as one of the most important Spanish novelists of his generation: Ahora Tocad Música de Baile, Versiones de Teresa (winner of the Torrente Ballester Award), Such Small Hands, August, October, Death of a Horse (winner of the Juan March Award), En Presencia de un Payaso, and A Luminous Republic (winnder of the Herralde Award, finalist for the Gregor Von Rezzori Award). He is also the author of several essays, poetry and he has translated into Spanish the works of authors including Herman Melville, Henry James, Joseph Conrad and Thomas De Quincey. He was chosen by Granta magazine as one of the best young Spanish-language storytellers. His work has been translated into twenty four 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.

Summary

Lord of the Flies meets Javier Marias, a dark and glinty literary gem with huge potential.

Product details

• Authors: Andres Barba, Andrés Barba
• Assisted by: Lisa Dillman (Translation), Dillman Lisa (Translation)
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Original title: República luminosa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.06.2021
• EAN: 9781846276941
• ISBN: 978-1-84627-694-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 15 mm x 203 mm
• Weight: 150 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction in translation, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary