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Napalm in the Heart - 'Innovative and original' COLM T211;IB205;N

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Pol Guasch is a Catalan poet and writer. His debut novel Napalm in the Heart was the winner of the 2021 Llibres Anagrama Prize and has been translated into several languages as well as being adapted for theatre and film. Guasch was awarded 42nd Revelation Award and the Eñe Festival Talent Award for his first novel. He has a Master's Degree in Contemporary Literature, Culture, and Theory from King's College London and is a PhD researcher on love and poetics at the Universitat de Barcelona. His writing scholarships and residences include the Santa Maddalena Foundation, among others. Mara Faye Lethem (New York, 1971) is a writer and translator from Catalan and Spanish. She has lived and worked in both New York and Barcelona, and has translated the likes of Alicia Kopf, Alana S. Portero and Irene Solà. She has won numerous awards, including the Nota Bene Prize. Klappentext The arrival of a blistering debut voice in international literature, and a radical work of literary fiction-poetic, provocative, artful and singular. Vorwort The arrival of a blistering debut voice in international literature, and a radical work of literary fiction-poetic, provocative, artful and singular. Zusammenfassung 'Innovative and original.' Colm Tóibín 'Unforgettable.' Alejandro Zambra 'A punk novel with prose as mysterious as it is beautiful.' Nicole Flattery 'Pol Guasch must be one of the best young writers working today.' Catherine Lacey The arrival of a blistering debut voice in international literature, and a radical work of literary fiction-poetic, provocative, artful and singular. In a deserted village, an unnamed young man waits for an opportunity to escape. Society has been militarised, the dead lie unburied and thugs patrol the land. As he waits, he marks the days that pass and writes to his lover Boris, with whom he shares an animal desire. In a series of impassioned dispatches, Napalm in the Heart unearths what it means to survive when language and nature fail, to refuse to give up when everything is lost. ...

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Authors Pol Guasch
Publisher Faber & Faber
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 04.07.2024
 
EAN 9780571375257
ISBN 978-0-571-37525-7
No. of pages 256
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

FICTION / Dystopian, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Epistolary, FICTION / Disaster, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Epistolary fiction

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