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- ISBN 9780571375257
- Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 04 Jul 2024
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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'Innovative and original.' Colm Tóibín
'Unforgettable.' Alejandro Zambra
'A punk novel with prose as mysterious as it is beautiful.' Nicole Flattery
'Pol Guasch must be one of the best young writers working today.' Catherine Lacey
'Reading this book is like traversing a dark forest and spotting, when night seemed to devour it all, the light of the fireflies as the glimmer of hope. ' Carlos Fonseca
The arrival of a blistering debut voice in international literature, and a radical work of literary fiction-poetic, provocative, artful and singular.
In a deserted village, an unnamed young man waits for an opportunity to escape. Society has been militarised, the dead lie unburied and thugs patrol the land. As he waits, he marks the days that pass and writes to his lover Boris, with whom he shares an animal desire.
In a series of impassioned dispatches, Napalm in the Heart unearths what it means to survive when language and nature fail, to refuse to give up when everything is lost.
Pol Guasch is a Catalan poet and writer. His debut novel Napalm in the Heart was the winner of the 2021 Llibres Anagrama Prize and has been translated into several languages as well as being adapted for theatre and film.
Mara Faye Lethem (New York, 1971) is a writer and translator from Catalan and Spanish. She has translated the likes of Alicia Kopf, Alana S. Portero and Irene Solà. She has won numerous awards, including the Nota Bene Prize.
