Holiday Heart by Margarita Garca Robayo
Human flaws and prejudices are laid bare as a married couple face up to what their relationship has become.Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana Prize (Finalist)
Garcia Robayo writes with caustic insight, brittle humour and a fair whack of cynicism (..) Holiday Heart is brilliant. -The Guardian
Understated, lyrical, and delivers its insights by means of acute observation. (5 stars) -The Arts Desk
Cunningly well achieved. -Irish Times
Holiday Heart is a poignant and searing story of love ending. -Gutter Magazine
Coombe's translation brilliantly captures the bite in Garcia Robayo's humour. -iNews
One of Colombia's greatest living writers. -The Monthly Booking
Brilliantly dramatises the disjunction between an idealized picture of life like sitting on a sunny beach and the reality of that life like getting sand caught in your teeth. -Lonesome Reader
Best Fiction Books of 2017 -New York Times (Espanol)
Darkly funny throughout, this examination of two lives will stay with you long after you read the final words and lay the book down. -Lunate
Every sentence in the book seems to be written with a scalpel infused with acid. -Morning Star
Acute, provocative, concise and raw. -Translating Women
An incredibly insightful portrayal of a disintegrating marriage...provides a sharp-eyed view of estrangement and personal identity. -Book Riot
Frightening, alluring, and inescapable. -Books and Bao
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Praise for Margarita Garcia Robayo
Casa de las Americas Prize (Winner)
Society of Authors Valle-Inclan Prize (Shortlist)
Garcia Robayo's prose bristles with restrained energy and a wry humour which captures the disaffection of her characters. -The Times Literary Supplement
[Fish Soup] is a gorgeous, blackly humorous look into the lives of Colombians struggling to find their place in society, both at home and abroad. -Publishers Weekly, starred review
A remarkable genre-bending effort. -The Guardian
The tackiness of the Caribbean coast and its discontents are marvellously rendered. -The Times Literary Supplement
If you're a fan of Ottessa Moshfegh or Melissa Broder, then this is for you. -The Guardian
An evocative collection that conveys the potency of desire in even the most ordinary lives. -Kirkus
Garcia Robayo is building one of the most solid and interesting oeuvres in Latin American literature. -Juan Cardenas , author of ORNAMENTAL
Her stories combine the atmosphere of Desperate Housewives, Hemingway's iceberg theory and a memorable, bittersweet ending. -Jorge Carrion , author of BOOKSHOPS
Margarita shows sharp insight into contemporary life. Her voice speaks with surreptitious irony and sophisticated psychological perception. She is the creator of an exceptional poetics of displacement. -Juan Villoro , author of THE WITNESS
There are very few writers who can challenge expectations the way Margarita Garcia Robayo does. Margarita is simply one of the best of the new generation that respects, yet no longer identifies with, the Latin American Boom. -Mariana Enriquez , author of THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE
This is a text written from within the belly of the beast. (...) One of the most essential books of the year. -Asymptote
Garcia Robayo's prose is concise and startling, her voice versatile and capable of packing a serious punch. -LA Review of Books
One of the most potent figures of contemporary Latin American literature. -ABC Cultural
Full of everyday details that reveal the most vulnerable aspects of feminine subjectivity. -La Nacion
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Margarita García Robayo was born in 1980 in Cartagena, Colombia, and now lives in Buenos Aires where she teaches creative writing and works as a journalist and scriptwriter. She is the author of several novels, including Hasta que pase un huracán (Waiting for a Hurricane ) and Educación Sexual (Sexual Education , both included in Fish Soup ), Holiday Heart, and Lo que no aprendí (The Things I have Not Learnt). She is also the author of a book of autobiographical essays Primera Persona (First Person, forthcoming with Charco Press) and several collections of short stories, including Worse Things , which obtained the prestigious Casa de las Américas Prize in 2014 (also included in Fish Soup ). TheDelivery is her third book to appear in English after the very successful Fish Soup (selected by the TLS as one of the best fiction titles of 2018) and Holiday Heart (Winner of the English PEN Award).
Charlotte Coombe is a British literary translator, working from French and Spanish. Her translation of Abousse Shalmani’s Khomeini, Sade and Me (2016) won a PEN Translates award. She has translated novels by Anna Soler-Pont and Asha Miró, Marc de Gouvenain, as well as some non-fiction, short stories and poetry by Edgardo Nuñez Caballero, Rosa María Roffiel and Santiago Roncagliolo for Palabras Errantes . She is also the translator of Eduardo Berti’s novel The Imagined Land (2018). She has translated three titles for Charco Press: Ricardo Romero’s The President’s Room (2017) and Margarita García Robayo’s Fish Soup (2018) and Holiday Heart (2020).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781999368449 |
| ISBN 10 | 1999368444 |
| Title | Holiday Heart |
| Author | Margarita Garcia Robayo |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Charco Press |
| Year published | 2020-06-25 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
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