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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... they're just blocks of stone sticking out from among the vegetation. We cross the threshold at that magic hour: when everything looks a little nicer than it really is. The setting sun does not alleviate the heat. Instead, the.
... They're like nurses. A couple of saints ... So much devotion for a guy nobody knows anything about. He was involved in something strange; nobody buries himself away in a town like San Manuel for a better life. My husband, may he rest in ...
... they're disgusted, they're shocked – she feels their eyes look her up and down, feels them on her, climbing her legs, hanging from her hips, her breasts, their eyes. When she walks out into the street, their eyes tinkle like little ...
... they're moving this time. 'Tomorrow I have a film shoot,' she repeats. They moved. And thus pass months, and shoots, and naked actors like sinewy tree trunks. Unintentionally, she begins to forsake certain things: clothes, meals. She'll ...
... they're singing of her. Sheway. stripped some people slowly, do leaving before her committing clothes primly suicide, folded, before the jumping out of a window. In the waiting-room mirror, she looked at herself for the last time. Looked ...
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 | |