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- ISBN 9781836750017
- Weight: 219g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 06 Nov 2025
- Publisher: Akoya Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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‘I’m going to tell you what happened to me and what didn’t happen to me. The possibility that nothing happened to me is what's giving me the shakes.’
Marta believes she is dying. With the onset of menopause, the changes to her body are stirring up new anxieties. Every time she feels a pain in her chest, a numbness in her arm, or a tension in her clavicle, she assumes she has cancer, or some other diagnosis she has yet to learn of.
During a flight, she starts to experience a pain underneath her rib. Unsure whether the pain signals the ominous approach of death or a simple bout of flatulence, Marta descends into an examination of pain’s impact upon her life. Is her body failing her or is she failing her body?
From one of Spain’s most widely read and acclaimed authors, My Clavicle And Other Massive Misalignments is a provocative and vulnerable semi-autobiographical novel rendering a memorable portrait of pain, health anxiety and menopause.
Marta Sanz is an award-winning novelist, poet and essayist. Sanz has written fifteen novels and four collections of poetry, as well as contributing to anthologies and media publications like El País and El Mundo. Many of her novels have won prestigious prizes and four were included in El País's 100 Best Books of the Century.
Katie King is a highly experienced translator of Spanish literature. She has translated numerous works including Luis García Montero’s Someone Speaks Your Name and One Year and Three Months. As a translator, journalist and scholar, King has been published in esteemed publications including Words Without Borders, World Literature Today and Columbia Journal, as well as in print anthologies by Graywolf Press and Ecco Press.
