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Synopsis
Her father died instantly, her mother in the hospital. She has learned to say this flatly and without emotion, the way she says her name (Marina), her doll's name (also Marina) and her age (seven). Her parents were killed in a car crash and now she lives in the orphanage with the other little girls. But Marina is not like the other little girls.In the curious, hyperreal, feverishly serious world of childhood, Marina and the girls play games of desire and warfare. The daily rituals of playtime, lunchtime and bedtime are charged with a horror; horror is licked by the dark flames of love. When Marina introduces the girls to Marina the Doll, she sets in motion a chain of events from which there can be no release.With shades of Daphne du Maurier, Shirley Jackson, Guillermo Del Toro and Mariana Enriquez, Such Small Hands is a beautifully controlled tour-de-force, a bedtime story to keep readers awake.
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'Barba submberges the reader in a terrifying but irresistible reality... This is a chilling account of what can happen in the secret spaces of a young child's imagination' -- --New Statesman
'There is something of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, a childhood both impossible and endless, not solely within the parameters of this story... Barba's Chekhov-like precision to emotion, a weightless peering into the minutiae of feeling, shines clearly in his works... This particular novel, however, contains a delicacy in register á part towards behavioural digression, a voice that stretches and pulls into the source of the lusus naturae, a discordance which palpates in the self-consciousness of our need to love and be loved' -- --Yelena Moscovich, 3AM Magazine
'Rarely does a book come that only captures perceptual reality with such vigorous insight, but also gives a terrifying spin. Such Small Hands by Spanish writer, Andrés Barba, does just that... It is a slim sinister novella, but packs a lot more ferocious intensity than books double its size' -- Wales Arts Review
'Such Small Hands is a book of layered and intricate beauty, a chasm-like narrative of trauma that keeps deepening and darkening as I reflect on it. It is tender and heart-tearing, sinister and compassionate. It is also one of the most meticulous, vivid accounts of childhood I have ever read' -- Megan Hunter
'Such Small Hands [...] is full of magic, malice and troubling enchantment' --Colin Barrett
About the Author
ANDRÉS BARBA is the author of twelve novels. He has worked as a teacher of Spanish to foreigners at Complutense University in Madrid and now gives writing workshops. He was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young Spanish Novelists. His writing has been translated into eight languages.LISA DILLMAN is a senior lecturer at Emory College. In 2016 she won the Best Translated Book Award for Signs Preceding the End of the World.
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- PublisherGranta Books
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1846276438
- ISBN 13 9781846276439
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages112
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