An electrifying debut from a major new Spanish writer that has become an international bestseller.
Jesos Carrasco was born in Badajoz in 1972 and currently lives in Seville. Since 1996 he has worked as an advertising copy writer. His first novel, Out in the Open, was declared Book of the Year by booksellers in Madrid. The Dutch translation was shortlisted for the European Literature Prize 2014. Out in the Open will be published in nineteen countries around the world.
This novel's deep theme is a peculiar kind of heroism – that of
claiming, in a world stripped to necessity, a human remainder of
grace: the choice to bear witness to ideals that are more precious
than survival and that exist only in our affirmation of them. Out
in the Open is a harrowing, humane, and very beautiful book
*Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You*
The writing is austere with flourishes of great beauty from an
exceptional translator
*Independent*
Its rural lexicon enriches a tale told with savage precision, and
filled with memorable passages
*The Times Literary Supplement*
Undeniably impressive and compelling because everything is
everywhere so thoroughly and keenly imagined and realised
*Scotsman*
[A] searing, beautifully observed debut
*Sunday Express*
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