Layla Martinez

Woodworm (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Hughes, Sophie; Mcdermott, Annie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Tense, chilling... A house of women and shadows built from poetry and revenge' Mariana Enriquez, author of Our Share of Night

The house breathes.

The house contains bodies and secrets.

The house is visited by ghosts, by angels that line the roof like insects, and by saints that burn the bedsheets with their haloes.

It was built by a small-time hustler as a means of controlling his wife, and even after so many years, their daughter and her granddaughter can't leave.

They may be witches or they may just be angry, but when the mysterious disappearance of a young boy draws unwanted attention, the two isolated women, already subjects of public scorn, combine forces with the spirits that haunt them in pursuit of something that resembles justice.

Layla Martínez's eerie debut novel Woodworm is class-conscious horror that drags generations of monsters into the sun.

Translated by Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529921526
• Artikelnr.: 68527960

Autorenporträt

Layla Martinez (Author)
Layla Martínez is a writer and translator from Madrid. She writes about music for El Salto, and about television for La Última Hora. Since 2014 she has co-directed the independent publisher Antipersona. Woodworm is her first novel.

Sophie Hughes (Translator)
Sophie Hughes is the translator of over twenty novels by authors such as Fernanda Melchor, Alia Trabucco Zerán and Enrique Vila-Matas. She has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and the Dublin Literary Award, and longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature. In 2021, she was awarded the Queen Sofía Translation Prize.

Annie McDermott (Translator)
Annie McDermott's translations from Spanish and Portuguese include works by Mario Levrero, Selva Almada, Ariana Harwicz and Lídia Jorge. In 2022, she was awarded the Premio Valle-Inclán for her translation of Wars of the Interior by Joseph Zárate.

Rezensionen

An incredible reinvention of the haunted house as a place marked by history's ghosts. Financial Times