by Andrés Barba · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433998460
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«República luminosa» is the novel by Andrés Barba, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
Thirty-two violent children appear in San Cristóbal, a tropical city between jungle and river, and destabilize life. Twenty years later, a witness reconstructs how these minors dominated the city for a year and a half and forced a rethink of order and civilization. A chronicle of facts, evidence and rumors that turns childhood into an enigma.
Winner of the 35th Herralde Novel Prize (2017). Belongs to the Narrativas hispánicas collection, number 597.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in award-winning novels that explore childhood, violence and the fragility of social order.
Andrés Barba is a Spanish writer and translator. He graduated in Hispanic Philology from the Complutense University of Madrid, with a degree in Philosophy. He has taught at Bowdoin College, the Complutense University of Madrid and Princeton University.
