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    Un Amor: A Novel
    Un Amor: A Novel
    Un Amor: A Novel
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    Un Amor: A Novel

    By Sara Mesa

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    Named the Book of the Year by Several Spanish Newspapers.

    The story of Un amor takes place in La Escapa, a small rural town where Nat, a young and inexperienced translator, has just moved. Her landlord, who gives her a dog as a welcome gesture, will soon show his true colors, and the conflicts surrounding the rented house—its poor construction, full of cracks and leaks—will become a true obsession for her. The rest of the inhabitants of the area—the girl from the store, Piter the hippie, the old and insane Roberta, Andreas the German, and the city family that spends there on weekends—will welcome Nat with apparent normality, while mutual incomprehension and strangeness beat in the background.

    La Escapa, with the mountain of El Glauco always present in the background, will end up acquiring its own personality, oppressive and confusing, which will confront Nat not only with her neighbors, but also with herself and her own failures. Full of silences and misunderstandings, of prejudices and misconceptions, of taboos and transgressions, Un amor addresses, implicitly but constantly, the issue of language not as a form of communication but of exclusion and difference.

    Sara Mesa once again confronts the reader with the limits of her own morality in an ambitious, risky and solid work in which, as if it were a Greek tragedy, the most unexpected impulses of its protagonists emerge little by little while, In parallel, the community builds its scapegoat.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Letter
    Release dateOct 17, 2023
    ISBN9781948830904
    Un Amor: A Novel
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    Sara Mesa

    Sara Mesa (Madrid, 1976) desde niña reside en Sevilla. En Anagrama se han publicado desde 2012 las novelas Cuatro por cuatro (finalista del Premio Herralde de Novela): «Una escritura desnuda y fría, repleta de imágenes poderosas que desasosiegan en la misma medida que magnetizan» (Marta Sanz, El Confidencial); Cicatriz (Premio El Ojo Crítico de Narrativa): «Una verdadera revelación» (J. M. Guelbenzu, El País); «Sara Mesa levanta una literatura de alto voltaje trabajada con precisión de orfebre» (Rafael Chirbes); la recuperada Un incendio invisible: «Demuestra ser una creadora muy exigente. Una novela que funciona como los buenos cuentos pues contiene mucho más de lo que dice» (J. M. Pozuelo Yvancos, ABC); Cara de pan: «Una pequeña obra maestra de la narrativa» (J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, Qué Leer); Un amor: «Sus aristas se presentan bajo una prosa de limpieza desconcertante, escueta, ágil: se lee con la velocidad que asociamos al disfrute, pero al cerrarlo nos encontramos desamparados. Una novela magnífica» (Nadal Suau, El Cultural) y La familia:«Ha escrito algunas de las historias más turbias de la literatura actual. Ahora arremete contra los falsos sueños de bienestar en La familia… En su nuevo libro, el humor matiza el desasosiego que recorre toda su obra… Existe una constante en su obra desde sus inicios que, además de con los abusos de poder, tiene que ver con la doble vida de los personajes.» (Laura Fernández, El País - Babelia) el muy celebrado volumen de relatos Mala letra: «Cuatro por cuatro, Cicatriz y Mala letra de Sara Mesa protagonizan desde hace meses la escena literaria española» (Christopher Domínguez Michael, Letras Libres); y el breve ensayo Silencio administrativo: «Una reflexión sobre el impacto brutal de la pobreza en los individuos que la sufren y sobre las actitudes imperantes frente a ellos en nuestra sociedad. Especialmente indicado para quienes piensan que ellos no tienen prejuicios» (Edurne Portela, El País).

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