Small Hands
About This Novel
"Little Hands" Marina, a seven-year-old girl, was sent to an orphanage after her parents died unexpectedly. She was accompanied only by a doll that could not close her eyes. There, she will be loved, hated, desired, and ostracized. As the only girl with memories and a real life, she invents a game that belongs only to childhood - everyone takes a turn... As poetic as Jean Cocteau's "The Terrible Child" and as cruel as William Golding's "Lord of the Flies", Andrés Barva paints a disturbing portrait of childhood. "Legitimate Intentions" is about an anorexic girl who ran away from home, a marathon runner who was in deep marital crisis, a woman who quietly watched her mother die, and a gay old man who suddenly realized the age gap with his young lover. Fear and loneliness, violence and resistance, self-destruction and suffering are all reflected in Andrés Barva's four novellas.
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Official(1)Scraped 7d ago
a little disappointed
Xiaoshou won't say anything. The deliberate writing style of the following four short stories cannot cover up the author's emptiness no matter how much description is piled up. I don't know if it's an author problem or a translation problem.
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Community(0)
Official(1)Scraped 7d ago
a little disappointed
Xiaoshou won't say anything. The deliberate writing style of the following four short stories cannot cover up the author's emptiness no matter how much description is piled up. I don't know if it's an author problem or a translation problem.
