The Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists (Los Mejores Narradores Jovenes en Espanol )

Granta 113, published simultaneously in Spain as Los Mejores Narradores Jovenes en Espanol, showcases the work of 22 promising new writers. It is eagerly anticipated, as Granta's previous Best Young Novelist issues have been startlingly accurate, calling out the work of writers from Salman Rushdie to Jonathan Franzen and Zadie Smith. Here, for the first time in translation, we predict the literary stars of the future. CONTENTS 7 Foreword Aurelio Major Valerie Miles 11 Cohiba Lucia Puenzo (translated by Valerie Miles) 29 Stars and Stripes Santiago Roncagliolo (translated by Edith Grossman) 41 After Effects Oliverio Coelho (translated by Anne McLean) 51 The Coming Flood Andres Barba (translated by Lisa Dillman) 65 The Place of Losses Rodrigo Hasbun (translated by Carolina De Robertis) 81 Conditions for the Revolution Pola Oloixarac (translated by Mara Faye Lethem) 99 The Hotel Life Javier Montes (translated by Margaret Jull Costa) 115 Gigantomachy Pablo Guitierrez (translated by Anna Kushner) 123 After Helena Andres Neuman (translated by Richard Gwyn) 135 Eva and Diego Alberto Olmos (translated by Peter Bush) 147 The Survivor Sonia Hernandez (translated by Samantha Schnee) 157 Scenes from a Comfortable Life Andres Ressia Colino (translated by Katherine Silver) 169 Seltz Carlos Yushimito (translated by Alfred Mac Adam) 187 The Girls Resembled Each Other in the Unfathomable Carlos Labbe (translated by Natasha Wimmer) 195 In Utah There Are Mountains Too Federico Falco (translated by Alfred Mac Adam) 217 Small Mouth, Thin Lips Antonio Ortuno (translated by Tanya Huntington Hyde) 233 Gerardo???s Letters Elvira Navarro (translated by Natasha Wimmer) 243 The Bonfire and the Chessboard Matias Nespolo (translated by Frank Wynne) 263 The Cuervo Brothers Andres Felipe Solano (translated by Nick Caistor) 273 Olingiris Samanta Schweblin (translated by Daniel Alarcon) 287 Ways of Going Home Alejandro Zambra (translated by Megan McDowell) 301 A Few Words on the Life Cycle of Frogs Patricio Pron (translated by Janet Hendrickson) 321 Notes on translators