Woodworm

The house breathes. The house contains bodies and secrets. ''A house of women and shadows built from poetry and revenge'' Mariana Enriquez The house is visited by ghosts, by angels that line the roof like insects, and by saints that burn the bedsheets with their haloes. It was built by a small-time hustler as a means of controlling his wife, and even after so many years, their daughter and her granddaughter can''t leave. They may be witches or they may just be angry, but when the mysterious disappearance of a young boy draws unwanted attention, the two isolated women, already subjects of public scorn, combine forces with the spirits that haunt them in pursuit of something that resembles justice. Layla Martinez''s eerie debut novel Woodworm is class-conscious horror that drags generations of monsters into the sun. Translated by Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott

Product details

• Authors: Layla Martinez
• Assisted by: Sophie Hughes (Translation), Hughes Sophie (Translation), Annie Mcdermott (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.05.2024
• EAN: 9781787303973
• ISBN: 978-1-78730-397-3
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 205 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Thrillers / Supernatural, Spain, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Horror, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, Horror & ghost stories, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Horror and supernatural fiction, FICTION / Feminist, Contemporary horror and ghost stories, FICTION / World Literature / Spain / 21st Century