Zel hides her list of forbidden wishes in a drawer, out of her mother’s sight. She is turning eighteen, and hopes that her mother will finally let her go out into the world so she can run cross country, see the ocean, and smile at some stranger.
The title of this book is not a metaphor. Two little nordic novels is exactly what it is: one little novel followed by another, both with a Nordic setting.
The massacre of a family of farm labourers in Carreu in 1943 shakes the local community and surrounding villages of this corner of Pallars Jussà, Catalonia. But news of the mass murder did not get much further.
Madrid, 1935. A young American woman arrives at the Residencia de Estudiantes, where the creme de la creme of Republican intellectuals get together. Real and fictional characters meet on the city's streets.
Lily Meyer is a writer, translator, and critic. Her translations include Claudia Ulloa Donoso’s story collections Little Bird and Ice for Martians. Her ...