Laia Jufresa recommends
Home Reading Service (2021)
Fabio Morábito
"I have always considered Morabito's work my main school of writing. Here, his precise, understated but always satisfying prose is preserved in Bauer's translation. Home Reading Service has contemporary violence as mere backdrop, and instead gives center stage to the suddenly rarefied acts of reading, of sharing, of paying - or not paying - attention. We are led through a series of quirky households and get to meet the unique underdogs who call them home. A humorous novel that entertains without ever giving up on poetry. A book with soul, despite all the swimming pools."
The Dust Never Settles (2021)
Karina Lickorish Quinn
"Karina Lickorish Quinn is the new face of magic realism. She has given it, through Anaïs, a female body and soul… She makes it sing, she makes it work and she has built a world that stands on its own three feet. Like its title, The Dust Never Settles will stay floating inside the reader, impossible to forget or unsee."
