A Luminous Republic
by Andrés Barba (translated by Lisa Dillman)
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Pub Date 4 Jun 2020 | Archive Date 11 Sep 2020
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Description
One day, the children begin to show up in the subtropical town of San Cristóbal. Aged between nine and thirteen, the children are covered in dirt and hungry. They beg food, commit small acts of vandalism, play games that don't seem to have any rules, and communicate with each other in a strange language. No one knows where they come from or where they disappear to each night. And then, they rob a supermarket and stab two adults, bringing fear to the town. Thus begins a fearsome and thrilling modern morality tale that retraces the lines between good and evil, the civilised and the wild, and drags our assumptions about childhood and innocence out into the light.
Advance Praise
'A Luminous Republic has all the stark power of a folk-tale or a fable. It also raises concerns that are pressing and contemporary-about the function and source of language, about public paranoia and hysteria, about the idea of community and how information spreads. At the book's center is a moving personal story about memory and loss. The narrative is engaging, at times playful, wholly compelling'
Colm Tóibín
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781846276934 |
| PRICE | £12.99 (GBP) |
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