Nine Islands in the North

Nine Islands in the North

Mònica BATET   BROMERA, 2019, 224 p., FICTION, catalan Book eligible for TRANSLATION GRANTS from the RAMÓN LLULL INSTITUTE in Barcelona. Can I tell a story that doesn’t belong to me? What can I talk about and what can I keep quiet about? These are some of the questions raised by the six narrators of this story, which tells the story of a past that may also be the present. In any case, we are talking about certain islands that...

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The Body’s Memory

The Body’s Memory

Patricia ALMARCEGUI FÓRCOLA EDICIONES, 2017, 192  p. LITERARY FICTION, spanish A feminine novel, very personal, yet universal. The origin of this novel is a question by Patricia Almarcegui: what would have happened if, instead of continuing her studies in Zaragoza, she had gone to Russia and become the first Spanish dancer to enter the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, the most important ballet in the world? This experience, she...

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