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by Pol Guasch (Author), Mara Faye Lethem (Translator)
A Finalist for the 2025 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction. Named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker
"Pol Guasch must be one of the best young writers working today. This novel is entirely resolute and clear-hearted." --Catherine Lacey, author of Biography of X
"Profoundly strange and beautiful, formally bold and lyrically elevated." --The Guardian
Author Biography
Pol Guasch is the author of two collections of poetry and two novels. The holder of a Master's Degree in Contemporary Literature, Culture, and Theory from King's College London, he is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Barcelona. He has also been a writer-in-residence at the Santa Maddalena Foundation in Florence, Italy and Art Omi in New York. His debut novel Napalm al cor, which has been translated into six languages, won the 2021 Anagrama Novel Prize, making Guasch the youngest winner in the prize's history. He lives in Barcelona.
Mara Faye Lethem is a writer and literary translator from the Catalan and the Spanish who lives in Barcelona. She has translated into English novels by David Trueba, Albert Sánchez Piñol, Javier Calvo, and Patricio Pron, among others, and her translations have appeared in publications such as Granta, The Paris Review, and McSweeney's.
