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The Right Intention - by Andrés Barba (Paperback)

The Right Intention - by  Andrés Barba (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Four linked novellas from the celebrated Spanish author of <i>Such Small Hands.</i><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b><i>Kirkus</i> Best Books of 2018</b></p><p><b>Barba is a master of the novella . . . A gorgeous, fully realized collection.--<b><i>Kirkus Reviews</i> (Starred Review)</i></b></p><p>Nothing is simple for the men and women in Andrés Barba's stories. As they go about their lives, they are each tested by a single, destructive obsession. A runner puts his marriage at risk while training for a marathon; a teenager can no longer stand the sight of meat following her parents' divorce; a man suddenly fixates on the age difference between him and his younger male lover. In four tightly wound novellas, Andrés Barba establishes himself as a master of the form.</p><p><b>Andrés Barba</b> is the one the most lauded contemporary Spanish writers. He is the author of twelve books, including <i>August, October</i> and <i>Rain Over Madrid</i>. In addition to literary fiction, he has written essays, poems, books of photography, and translations of Thomas De Quincey and Herman Melville. His books have been translated into ten languages.</p><p><b>Lisa Dillman</b> won the 2016 Best Translated Book Award for her translation of Yuri Herrera's <i>Signs Preceding the End of the World</i>. She translates from Spanish and Catalan and teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Andrés Barba needs no advice. He has already created a world that is perfectly realized and has a craft that is inappropriate for a writer of his age.--<b>Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature</b></p><p>Barba is a master of the novella . . . A gorgeous, fully realized collection.--<b><i>Kirkus Reviews</i> (Starred Review)</i></b></p><p>The four novellas in Barba's wonderful and intense new collection share a melancholy sensibility and a yearning, born of persistent loneliness.--<i><b>Publishers Weekly</b></i></p><p>The destructive consequences of those obsessions, traced with an almost clinical precision, are the substance of Barba's absorbing, unnerving stories.--<b>Words Without Borders</b></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>ANDRÉS BARBA first became known in 2001 when his novel <i>La hermana de Katia</i>, shortlisted for the Herralde Prize, was published to considerable public and critical acclaim. It was followed by <i>Ahora tocad música de baile</i>, <i>Versiones de Teresa</i>, winner of the Torrente Ballester award, and <i>Agosto, octubre</i>, <i>Muerte de un caballo</i>, for which he won the 2011 Juan March short novel award, <i>Ha dejado de llover</i>, and his latest work, <i>En presencia de un payaso</i>. His books have been translated into ten languages.</p><p>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 <i>Signs Preceding the End of the World</i>, by Yuri Herrera, which won the 2016 Best Translated Book Award; <i>Such Small Hands</i> and <i>Rain Over Madrid</i>, by Andrés Barba; <i>Monastery</i>, co-translated with Daniel Hahn, by Eduardo Halfon; and <i>Salting the Wound</i>, by Víctor del Árbol.

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