
Ocho centímetros
Páginas de Espuma, 2015 | Eight Centimeters
Press
«Eleven indisputable stories. Barrios has written his best book. And one of the best storybooks I have read in a long time.» J. Ernesto Ayala Dip, El País
«Barrios prose is like a blues song, like a balm for pain (...) pain as a way to illuminate life, as a source of knowledge.» Enrique Turpin, La Vanguardia
«An exceptional book. A beautiful, stark and moving collection of short-stories.» Pilar Castro, El Mundo
«A handful of stories subtly interwoven as if by silken threads, which makethem hang together. Pain, drama and lives that explode like a land mine before the reader’s eyes.»
Javier Goñi, Mercurio
Synopsis
>2nd reprint
(Eight Centimeters) What is the distance separating sorrow and joy? In a shanty town, a born-again gypsy preacher declares to a frenzied gathering of followers that the distance between one and the other is eight centimetres. It is in this minute space that Nuria Barros sets her bold, pulsating stories: where all is not yet lost, where writing can reveal borderlands that rarely see the light of day. These eleven stories have a hard edge and shine with a harsh light. They are eleven diamonds. They cut to the bone. Is that not just what we look for in literature? That it dig deep, that it enlighten us, that it pull no punches.
MB Authors
- Pablo ARANDA
- Juan Luis ARSUAGA
- Manuel ASTUR
- Flavita BANANA
- Joan BARRIL
- Nuria BARRIOS
- Felipe BENÍTEZ REYES
- Max BESORA
- Joan-Daniel BEZSONOFF
- BLACKIE BOOKS
- Joana BONET
- Juan BONILLA
- Emilio BUESO
- Leonardo CANO
- Pablo CARBONELL
- Martín CASARIEGO
- Nicolás CASARIEGO
- Paula CIFUENTES
- Juan CUADRA
- Mario CUENCA SANDOVAL
- Malén DENÍS
- Elizabeth DUVAL
- Jordi ESTEVA
- Cristina FALLARÁS
- Laura FERRERO
- Josep Maria FONALLERAS
- Albert FORNS CANAL
- Miguel GALLARDO
- Olivia GALLO
- Ignacio GARCÍA-VALIÑO
- José A. GARRIGA VELA
- Albert GASSULL
- David B. GIL
- Marcos GIRALT TORRENTE
- Enric GONZÁLEZ
- Ismael GRASA
- Javier GUTIÉRREZ
- Luci GUTIÉRREZ
- Najat El HACHMI
- Mercedes HALFON
- Alicia KOPF
- Use LAHOZ
- Lucía LIJTMAER
- Shaina Joy MACHLUS
- Ignacio MARTÍNEZ DE PISóN
- Ana MERINO
- Luna MIGUEL
- Miquel OBIOLS
- Bruno ORO
- Miqui OTERO
- Anna PACHECO
- Vicenç PAGÈS JORDÀ
- Enric PARDO
- Concepción PEREA
- Juan Manuel DE PRADA
- Jordi PUNTÍ
- Llucia RAMIS
- Marta REBÓN
- Antonio J. RODRÍGUEZ
- Félix ROMEO
- Xavier RUBERT DE VENTÓS
- Gemma RUIZ
- Juanjo SÁEZ
- Gabriel SALVADÓ
- Màrius SERRA
- Rubén SERRANO
- Rubén SERRANO
- Aránzazu SERRANO LORENZO
- Ramon SOLSONA
- José Miguel TOMASENA
- David TRUEBA
- Juan VICO
- Enrique VILA-MATAS
- Rosario VILLAJOS
- Rolando VILLAZÓN
- Pedro ZARRALUKI