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- ISBN 9781836750086
- Weight: 289g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 25 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Akoya Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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‘My mother lingered on the threshold between my life and my death, inhabiting it with the levity and nonchalance that had always marked her treatment of me.’
A young woman and her mother spend a day at the beach. Soon the woman is in labour, three months early. At the hospital she slips from the glare of the lights toward the deep shadows of her own childhood, while doctors and nurses fight to keep her and her baby alive.
Moving with dreamlike intensity between a heart-breaking past and a heart-stopping present, this fearless novel asks: in longing for a child do we also long to break free of a mother? And what was it that happened exactly, that day at the beach?
MARINA PEREZAGUA is a Spanish novelist and essayist. She writes both short story collections and novels, and her writing has been published in eleven different languages. Her most well-known translation, Story of H, received rave reviews from Vanity Fair and Forges. She has a PhD in Philology and is a former Distinguished Professor in Residence at New York University.
ROBIN MYERS is a poet and literary translator from Spanish. She has translated several award-winning authors, including Andrés Neuman and Cristina Rivera Garza. Her translation of Gabriela Cabezón Cámara's We Are Green and Trembling won the 2025 National Book Award and was longlisted for the 2026 International Booker Prize.
