Granta 113: The Best of Young Spanish Language NovelistsFrom Borges to Garca Mrquez, Vargas Llosa, Maras or Bolao , the Spanish language has given us some of the 20th century's most beloved writers. But as the reach of Spanish culture extends far beyond Spain and Latin America, and the US tilts towards a majority Hispanic population, the time is right to ask who and what is next in Spanish-language fiction? |
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... wait, hunching closer to the woman on my right. I could ask him to let me go by, tell him that I have to go to the bathroom and wait in the lobby. But I don't do anything. The woman scoots over a bit so that my arm stops touching hers ...
... wait for us outside. Cubans and foreigners a line that is three blocks long, credentials hanging from their necks. I ... waits at the corner, tying the laces of his orthopaedic shoe. One leg is twenty centimetres shorter than the other ...
... wait for an answer. She's a director's assistant in Budapest, she's used to giving orders. She was married to a Cuban for a decade, she knows the island by heart, her youngest daughter was born in Varadero and grew up eating fish and ...
... wait in front of the rest of the students, the cameras, the journalists at the bottom of the stairs. There is a rumour going around that this will be the last workshop the maestro teaches. Birri – the school's director – helps him out ...
... wait in front of a black man with the body of a boxer and an unctuous, adolescent hooker at his side. Above the door someone has written by hand: WELCOME TO GARCÍA LORCA'S HELL. When the door opens, beams of light tint the European ...
Contents
CONDITIONS FOR THE REVOLUTION Pola Oloixarac | |
THE HOTEL LIFE Javier Montes | |
GIGANTOMACHY Pablo Gutiérrez | |
EVA AND DIEGO Alberto Olmos | |
THE SURVIVOR Sònia Hernández | |
SELTZ Carlos Yushimito | |