Out in the Open

ISBN-13: 9780099582182 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 192 str.

Jess Carrasco

Opis

A young boy has fled his home. Crouched in his hiding place he hears the shouts of the men hunting him. When the search party has passed, what lies before him is an infinite, arid plain. One night he crosses paths with an old goatherd and from that moment nothing will ever be the same for either of them.

Recenzje

This novel's deep theme is a peculiar kind of heroism - that of claiming, in a world stripped to necessity, a human remainder of grace: the choice to bear witness to ideals that are more precious than survival and that exist only in our affirmation of them. Out in the Open is a harrowing, humane, and very beautiful book Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You

O autorze

Jesús Carrasco was born in Badajoz in 1972 and currently lives in Seville. Since 1996 he has worked as an advertising copy writer. His first novel, Out in the Open, was declared Book of the Year by booksellers in Madrid. The Dutch translation was shortlisted for the European Literature Prize 2014. Out in the Open will be published in nineteen countries around the world.