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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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'Chilling, I am reminded of that quote from Elizabeth Bowen... 'No one can know the extent of the damage caused by young children whispering together,' Such Small Hands is more than just a scary story... This is so much worse'Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black
'Chilling... Barba inhabits the minds of children with an exactitude that seems to me so uncanny as to be almost sinister... This is as effective a ghost story as any I have read' Sarah Perry
'Such Small Hands is a magnificently chilling antidote to society's reverence for ideas of infantile innocence and purity.'--Financial Times
'Such Small Hands pulls you all the back into the pagan woods of earliest childhood, that place you were always afraid you would never find your way out of. This slender book is full of magic, malice and troubling enchantment' --Colin Barrett
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ANDRES 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 date2018
- ISBN 10 1846276756
- ISBN 13 9781846276750
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages112
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