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Irlanda
Irlanda | Espido Freire
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Fiction. Translated from the Spanish by Toshiya Kamei. "Sagrario died in May, after much suffering." So begins Espido Freire's haunting novel IRLANDA, with a sentence that is bright and troubled at once, just like its hero. After the death of her sister Sagrario, young Natalia has been sent by her mother to spend the summer helping her two teenage cousins (Roberto and the beautiful, "perfect" Irlanda) do minor repairs to the family's decaying country house. Its fairy-tale "tower and chapel...stood crumbling, crawling with vermin." Jealousy, displacement, and loss: these classic themes are twisted and laid bare in a pristinely told mystery story. This beautifully translated book is the first to be published in the English language by one of Spain's youngest and most celebrated authors. "Exquisite...fascinating...stunning. IRLANDA unfurls like a rose with a ring of gleaming white teeth inside, poised to snap."—Stacey Richter
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This was so amazing. Please read it right now. It's going to haunt me for a long, long time.

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