'Our lives do not start entirely with our births.' Prussia, the early 19th century. As he attempts to bury his recently deceased wife, Redo Hauptshammer uncovers the frozen body of a uniformed soldier. As he continues to dig, the bodies start to pile up - all of them fallen cavalrymen bearing the secrets of an earlier era. For readers of W. G. Sebald and Agustin Fernandez Mallo, this archaeological novel digs into Europe's soil, uncovering a long history of violence and expropriation. Mora's writing is audacious, melancholy, and formally experimental. Each chapter is longer than the one that precedes it - as the bodies proliferate, the story keeps getting more complicated. In a bold yet lyrical translation by Rahul Bery, Centroeuropa introduces English-speaking readers to one of Europe's pre-eminent experimental prose writers currently at work.

About the Author
Vicente Luis Mora is a writer, literary critic and professor. He has also adventured into theatre, hoax (Quimera 322, 2010), digital literature and literary critique in his blog Diario de lecturas. Centroeuropa was published in Spanish in 2020, winning the Malaga Prize. Rahul Bery translates from Portuguese and Spanish to English, and is based in Cardiff, Wales. He was the British Library's translator in residence from 2018-2019 and he does outreach work with the Stephen Spender Trust and the Translation Exchange at Queen's College, Oxford University.


Book Information
ISBN 9781913512392
Author Rahul Bery
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint Peninsula Press Ltd
Publisher Peninsula Press Ltd