EDUARDO SANGARCÍA THE TRIAL OF ANNA THALBERG: A NOVEL ARC SEPT 2024 TRADE PB

Description: Eduardo Sangarcía, The Trial of Anna Thalberg: A Novel. Translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Bryer. New York and Amherst, MA: Restless Books. Advance Reader's Copy to appear on September 10, 2024. Trade paperback 154 pp. ISBN: 9781632063731 New condition Publisher's Description: Winner of the 2020 Mauricio Achar AwardDoes evil lurk in the shadows of the forest, or in the human heart? Eduardo Sangarcía’s tale of one woman’s witch trial opens the door to deeper horrors.Anna Thalberg is a peasant woman shunned for her red hair and provocative beauty. When she is dragged from her home and accused of witchcraft, her neighbors do not intervene. Only Klaus, Anna’s husband, and Father Friedrich, a priest experiencing a crisis of faith, set out to the city of Würzburg to prove her innocence. There, Anna faces isolation and torture inside the prison tower, while the populace grows anxious over strange happenings within the city walls. Can Klaus and Friedrich convince the church to release Anna, or will she burn at the stake?Set in the Holy Roman Empire during the Protestant Reformation, The Trial of Anna Thalberg is a story of religious persecution, superstition, and human suffering. While exploring the medieval fear of witches and demons, it delves into enduring human concerns: the historical oppression of women, the inhumanity of institutions, and the question of God’s existence. Frantic in pace and experimental in form, this novel is an unforgettable debut from Mexican author Eduardo Sangarcía.PRAISE FOR THE TRIAL OF ANNA THALBERG“A marvelous work that challenges the reader on multiple levels and communicates directly with our present.” — Cristina Rivera Garza, author of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize–winning Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice“A novel to be read with great emotion and suspense, written with impressive formal virtuosity.” — Fernanda Melchor, author of Hurricane Season“Resentment, polarization, puritanism, and blind bureaucracy together transform a neighbor’s envy into a powerful, horrifying drama. . . . A very absorbing novel showing power mechanisms that are still in force today.”— Julián Herbert, author of Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino“A merciless chronicle of witchcraft trials that is more than a mere testimony of the times: it is also a trial of the violence that has historically been exercised against women. With a coven of torrential voices, Eduardo Sangarcía lays bare the unreasonableness of a past that also speaks of our present.”— Juan Gómez Bárcena, author of Not Even the Dead“With an audacious style, the singular use of juxtaposed dialogue, and a structure reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Eduardo Sangarcía achieves a narrative feat that keeps us hooked until the very last line. Although we know what will happen, since he has advertised it from the beginning, we believe in the unexpected, hoping for the miracle to occur. In the end he both pleases and surprises us, just the way great literature ought to do.” — Yoss, author of A Planet for Rent “With breathless rhythm and a raging as well as plaintive tone . . . [the novel] builds a magnificent celebration of the feminine.”— Le mondeEduardo Sangarcía (Guadalajara, México, 1985), holds a master’s degree in Mexican Literature Studies from the University of Guadalajara. He is the author of El desconocido del Meno (Fondo Editorial Tierra Adentro, 2017), which won the Premio Nacional de Cuento Joven Comala 2017, and Anna Thalberg (Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, 2021), winner of the Premio Mauricio Achar 2020.ABOUT THE TRANSLATORElizabeth Bryer is a translator and writer from Australia. Her translations include prizewinning works by María José Ferrada, Claudia Salazar Jiménez, José Luis de Juan, and Aleksandra Lun. Her debut novel, From Here On, Monsters, was co-winner of the 2020 Norma K. Hemming award.

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