by Jorge Carrión (Author), Peter Bush (Translator)
A history of bookshops, an autobiography of a reader, a travelogue, a love letter--and, most urgently, a manifesto.
Author Biography
Jorge Carrión's Bookshops: A Reader's History, published by Biblioasis in 2017, was universally acclaimed and has appeared in thirteen languages. He is the author of three novels, including Los muertos, which won the 2011 Festival de Chambéry Prize for best first novel in Spanish. Carrión's journalism appears in the Spanish-language edition of the New York Times and many other newspapers in Europe and the Americas. He lives in Barcelona, where he is the director of the creative writing program at Pompeu Fabra University.
Peter Bush's recent translations include Teresa Solana's The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and Other Stories, his selection of Barcelona Tales, and Quim Monzó's Why, Why, Why? In press are Josep Pla's Salt Water and Juan Francisco de Dios Hernández's Leonardo Balada: A Transatlantic Gaze; in process, Balzac's The Lily in the Valley and Najat El Hachmi's Mother of Milk and Honey. He lives in Oxford, UK.