SUCH SMALL HANDS - Rare Pristine Autographed Copy of The First Edition/First Printing: Signed by Andres Barba - ONLY SIGNED COPY ONLINE

Barba, Andres (Author); Dillman, Lisa (Translator) & White, Edmund (Contributor)

ISBN 10: 1945492007 / ISBN 13: 9781945492006

Edité par Oakland, CA: Transit Books, 2017, 2017

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1st Printing. Signed. 110 pages. Published in 2017. The third book by the author to be translated into English. Now considered a contemporary classic. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only by a small independent press. The First Edition is now scarce. Round green "Autographed Copy" pasted in front. Presents Andres Barba's "Las manos pequenas" in a felicitous English translation. The world of little children, reimagined in vivid, horrific detail. "Life changes at the orphanage the day seven-year-old Marina shows up. She is different from the other girls: At once an outcast and an object of fascination. As Marina struggles to find her place, she invents a game whose rules are dictated by a haunting violence. Written in hypnotic, lyrical prose, alternating between Marina's perspective and the choral We of the other girls. Evokes the pain of loss and the hunger for acceptance" (Publisher's blurb). "Every once in a while, a novel does not record reality, but creates a whole new reality, one that casts a light on our darkest feelings. Kafka did that. Bruno Schulz did that. Now the Spanish writer Andres Barba has done it with the terrifying 'Such Small Hands' "(Edmund White, who has contributed the Afterword Essay). "He has created a world that is perfectly realized and has a craft that is inappropriate for a writer of his age" (Mario Vargas Llosa). Meaning he's awfully young to be writing at such a high level of maturity and mastery (Andres Barba turned 41 in 2017). Note, however, how these two elder-writers, very different from each other, see and admire the same imaginative impulse and triumph in Andres Barba, as he creates not "relatable" characters (our unimaginative, contemporary expectation about literature), but rather a self-contained, "Barba-esque" world of his own making, as Kafka and Schulz did, thereby recasting the real world. An absolute "must-have" title for Andres Barba collectors. This Autographed Copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Andres Barba. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Barba made exactly one appearance, in New York City, to launch the book. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Edition/First Printing (American) available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: The novel was issued as a softcover original only. There is NO hardcover edition. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant writers of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 1945492007.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: SUCH SMALL HANDS - Rare Pristine Autographed Copy of The First Edition/First Printing: Signed by Andres Barba - ONLY SIGNED COPY ONLINE
• Éditeur: Oakland, CA: Transit Books, 2017
• Date de parution: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1945492007
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781945492006
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: As New
• État de la jaquette: None, As Issued
• Signé: Signed by Author

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Synopsis

One of the Guardian Best Books of 2017

"Every once in a while a novel does not record reality but creates a whole new reality, one that casts a light on our darkest feelings. Kafka did that. Bruno Schulz did that. Now the Spanish writer Andrés Barba has done it with the terrifying Such Small Hands."--Edmund White

Life changes at the orphanage the day seven-year-old Marina shows up. She is different from the other girls: at once an outcast and object of fascination. As Marina struggles to find her place, she invents a game whose rules are dictated by a haunting violence. Written in hypnotic, lyrical prose, alternating between Marina's perspective and the choral we of the other girls, Such Small Hands evokes the pain of loss and the hunger for acceptance.

À propos de l?auteur

Andrés Barba is the one the most lauded contemporary Spanish writers. He is the author of twelve books, including August, October and Rain Over Madrid. In addition to literary fiction, he has written essays, poems, books of photography, and translations of De Quincey and Melville. His books have been translated into ten languages.

Lisa Dillman translates from Spanish and Catalan and teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University. Some of her recent translations include Signs Preceding the End of the World, by Yuri Herrera, which won the 2016 Best Translated Book Award; Rain Over Madrid, by Andrés Barba; Monastery, co-translated with Daniel Hahn, by Eduardo Halfon; and Salting the Wound, by Víctor del Árbol.

Edmund White has written biographies of Jean Genet, Marcel Proust, and Arthur Rimbaud. He has also written several novels; the most recent is Our Young Man. He teaches creative writing at Princeton.