Name: Bad Handwriting (Spanish Literature Series)
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Author: Sara Mesa
ISBN: 9781948830553

portada Bad Handwriting (Spanish Literature Series)

Type

Physical Book

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Translated by

Publisher

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

208

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

13.7 x 21.1 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN13

9781948830553

Synopsis "Bad Handwriting (Spanish Literature Series)"

From the author of the highly acclaimed Four by Four and Among the Hedges comes a collection of unsettling, captivating stories.The eleven stories in this collection approach themes of childhood and adolescence, guilt and redemption, power and freedom. There are children who resist authority and experience the process of growing up with shock, and loneliness; alienated young girls whose rebellion lies under the surface--subterranean, furious and impotent; people who are tormented--or not--by regret and doubt, addicted to feelings of culpability; men who take advantage of women and adults who exercise power over children with a disturbing degree of control; kids abandoned by their parents; the suicide of the elderly and the young; lives that hide crimes--both real and imagined. Eschewing cosmopolitanism in favor of the micro-world of her characters, Mesa depicts a reality that is messy and disturbing, on even the smallest scale of an individual life, a single family.

Sara Mesa

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Sara Mesa (Madrid, 1976) desde niña reside en Sevilla. Estudió Periodismo y Filología hispánica. Es famosa por su obra narrativa. En 2012 fue Finalista del Premio Herralde de Novela, con la obra Cuatro por Cuatro. También ha publicado libros de poesía; Este jilguero agenda, ha ganando el prestigioso Premio Miguel Hernández de Poesía. A la vez, ha escrito crítica literaria en el blog colectivo Estado Crítico, en la revista Letras Libres y en el periódico El Norte de Castilla. Es considerada una de las voces más interesantes y prometedoras de su generación.

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