Fiction
The Shortcut
by Miquel Martín
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Published by Edicions del Periscopi (Catalan)
English sample available
La drecera (The Shortcut), by Miquel Martín, has been the big surprise of the summer season. Published at the end of June it has been selling more and more since then and now it’s been in Catalan Bestsellers lists for weeks.
This is a short novel about the passage from childhood to youth of the son of the housekeepers of a rich family that owns a large summer house in the region of Empordà (which might ring a bell because it is also the setting of Milena Busquets’s successful novel This Too Shall Pass).
In The Shortcut we see the evolution of this boy of 10, who still does not know anything about social boundaries and the scars that life leaves on adults, and who finishes the novel, at 13 or 14, having discovered some of the secrets, joys, wonders and resignations of the adult world.
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Reviews
“The publishing surprise of the summer” - El Punt
"Miquel Martín, the discovery of the summer” - Ara
"The Shortcut is one of the revelations of the year." - La Llança
“Martín's writing is crystalline and dry, in constant search of the conquest of detail, passionate about capturing the concrete, and which always seems to float at ground level, devoid of verbal filigree, or, rather, full of verbal filigree so well executed that they seem radically natural." – El País
"One of those books with a story that hooks." – La Vanguardia
"Reading The Shortcut is a feast for the senses." - L'Illa dels Llibres
"The Shortcut by Miquel Martín, has become one of the books of the summer and in less than two months there have been four editions" - Catalunya Ràdio
"Miquel Martín dazzles with The Shortcut, a novel about a boy who lives the transition from childhood to adolescence." – Núvol
Author Biography
Miquel Martín (Begur, 1969) has a degree in philosophy. He has published the novels El riu encès, Dictadors de butxaca, Cabells de Medusa and L’estratègia de la gallina, the collection of articles Proses reposades and a volume of short stories entitled Hi ha amors que maten. He is also the author of various studies on literature, especially on the poetry of Joan Vinyoli.
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English sample available
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- Publisher Edicions del Periscopi
- Orginal LanguageCatalan
- ISBN/Identifier 9788417339456
- Publication Country or regionSpain
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleLa drecera
- Original Language AuthorsCatalan
- Copyright Year2020
