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Such Small Hands
Andrés Barba, Lisa Dillman (translation), Edmund White (afterword)“Every once in a while a novel does not record reality but creates a whole new reality, one that casts a light on our darkest feelings. Kafka did that. Bruno Schulz did that. Now the Spanish writer Andrés Barba has done it with the terrifying Such Small Hands.” — Edmund White
Life changes at the orphanage the day seven-year-old Marina shows up. She is different from the other girls: at once an outcast & object of fascination. As Marina struggles to find her place, she invents a game whose rules are dictated by a haunting violence. Written in hypnotic, lyrical prose, alternating between Marina’s perspective & the choral we of the other girls, Such Small Hands evokes the pain of loss & the hunger for acceptance.
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Lisa Dillman has won the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize, which honors a book-length literary translation into English from another modern European language, for her adroit translation of a chilling, almost gothic Spanish tale set in a girls’ orphanage.
The international recognition for Dillman’s translation of Andrés Barba’s Such Small Hands is her second major award. A senior lecturer in Emory College’s Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Dillman won the 2016 Best Translated Book Award for her work on Yuri Herrera’s Signs Preceding the End of the World.
She was even more captivated [than Barba's La Hermana de Katia] when she then read Such Small Hands, a novella that explores the inner world of children’s minds through the story of Marina, a 7-year-old girl spared in the car crash that kills both parents.
Dillman was so taken with the precision of Barba’s words & tone that she translated the book into English without a contract, the only time she had taken on such a challenge.
English-language publishers, though, were uninterested in Such Small Hands until Dillman won the Best Translated Book Award.
Contest judges cited Dillman’s skill, going well beyond language to capture the [original] tone & style...
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