Name: The Strangers (Spanish Literature Series)
Price: 670.00 TWD
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Author: Jon Bilbao
ISBN: 9781628974553

portada The Strangers (Spanish Literature Series)

The Strangers (Spanish Literature Series)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jon Bilbao

Translated by

Katie Whittemore

Publisher

Dalkey Archive Press

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1 x 12.4 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.26 kg.

ISBN13

9781628974553

Synopsis "The Strangers (Spanish Literature Series)"

A Spanish-gothic version of a Patricia Highsmith novel Jon and Katharina spend the winter in Jon's childhood home on the Cantabrian coast, lonely and bored, ambivalent about their precarious freelance jobs and disconnected in their relationship. Yet the couple's routine will soon be disturbed when one rainy night, they witness strange lights in the sky over the village. The next morning, ufologists begin to arrive in the village, anxious to make extraterrestrial contact. The morning brings other unexpected guests: Jon's distant cousin, Markel, and his companion, the silent, alluring Virginia. The visit becomes increasingly uncomfortable as--like the ufologists camped out in view of the house--the strangers stay on and show little sign of planning to leave. Days stretch into weeks, even as the cousins can't remember ever having met, Virginia's behavior becomes subtly threatening, and Jon begins doubt that Markel is who he says he . . . A deliciously tense and darkly humorous novella that explores the border that separates love from routine and offers a twist on theme of "the other" and how to live with the unknown, The Strangers introduces English readers to singular talent.

Jon Bilbao

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Jon Bilbao (Ribadesella, 1972) is a mining engineer and holds a degree in English Philology. He is the author of the short story books Como una historia de terror (2008; Ojo Crítico Narrative Award), Bajo el influjo del cometa (2010; Tigre Juan Award and Euskadi Literature Award) and Física familiar (2014); as well as the novels El hermano de las moscas (2008), Padres, hijos y primates (2011; Otras Voces, Otros Ámbitos Award) and Shakespeare y la ballena blanca (2013). His stories are included in anthologies such as Siglo XXI. Los nuevos nombres del cuento español actual (2010), Pequeñas resistencias V (2010) and Cuento español actual (1992-2012) (2014). At Impedimenta, he has published the story volume Estrómboli (2016), the triptych El silencio y los crujidos (2018), Basilisco (2020), a western-style anthology that received the Navarra Bookstores Award, the novella Los extraños (2021), Araña (2023) and Matamonstruos (2024) where he brings back the characters from Basilisco, Araña, and Los extraños in a collection of stories that alternate between past and present, fiction and reality. He currently resides in Bilbao.

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