WASP SEASON
by ELISA FERRER
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The discovery of an original and singular voice, awarded the Tusquets Editores Prize for Novel 2019 and the 2020 Critics Prize in Valencia, and shortlisted for the 2020 European Union Prize for Literature
When Nuria, an artist for a satiric magazine, is downsized as a result of the economic crisis, she must confront the wasps that slumber in her childhood. A phone call is the sting that sets everything in motion. Her true father, whom she and her brother Raúl lost track of years ago, has reappeared. And he’s in the ICU. Her idyllic childhood with her father, her confrontations with her mother, her fear of wasps ‒a terror that Nuria purges by drawing them obsessively‒, all of that erupts forth, marking a contrast with the insecurity and precariousness of her life at present. Nuria will finally discover the hidden story of her father, the reasons he abandoned them, and perhaps will understand many other things, giving herself a second opportunity when she goes after the last wasps’ nests in the garden.
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Reviews
“A moving story of parents and children told in a refreshing and intelligent voice. Don’t miss it.” Almudena Grandes
“An enormous little story. Little in the sense that it is a web of everyday stories, of unheroic people who are neither vain nor ridiculous. Enormous because it has been written without any wild gesticulations or faults, with just the right dose of tenderness, pain, significance, and humor.” Carlos Zanón, Babelia/El País
“A fresh and emotional novel, sardonic and tender. Its natural voice and its easy pace shouldn’t deceive us, though: this is a beautiful novel with deeper layers.” Antonio Orejudo
“An intense and delicate tale about those things we don’t know about ourselves.” María Tena
“Elisa Ferrer has put together a luminous, tender tale, and she tells it in a voice bursting with personality. In Wasp Season, she shows herself as an established storyteller, a writer with a great deal to say.” Eva Cosculluela
Author Biography
Elisa Ferrer (L'Alcúdia de Crespins, Valencia, 1983) studied Audiovisual Communication at the University of Valencia. She has a diploma in Writing for Television and Film from the School for Cinema in Madrid and a Master’s degree in Creative Writing in Spanish from the University of Iowa, where she was one of the editors of Iowa Literaria. She worked as a television scriptwriter and script analyst for the Fiction Department at RTVE (Spanish Radio and Television Corporation). She has published articles and poems in a number of literary journals, including New York University’s Revista Temporales or Contratiempo from Chicago. She is author of the essay "The Royal Tenenbaums" in Wes Anderson (Plan Secreto, 2014) and of the story "Don Hipólito” in the anthology Historias de clase (RiE, 2014). Wasp Season is her first novel.
TUSQUETS EDITORES, S.A.
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- Publisher TUSQUETS EDITORES
- Orginal LanguageSpanish
- ISBN/Identifier 9788490667545
- Publication Country or regionSpain
- Pages240
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleTEMPORADA DE AVISPAS
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