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Andrés Barba


Born
in Madrid, Spain
January 01, 1975

Genre
Literature & Fiction

Influences
Álvaro Pombo, Italo Calvino, Joseph Conrad ...more


Andrés Barba is the award-winning author of numerous books, including Such Small Hands and The Right Intention. He was one of Granta's Best Young Spanish novelists and received the Premio Herralde for Luminous Republic, which will be translated into twenty languages. ...more

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Average rating: 3.75 · 22,028 ratings · 3,563 reviews · 77 distinct works • Similar authors
A Luminous Republic
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3.89 avg rating — 4,778 ratings — published 2017 — 47 editions
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Such Small Hands
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3.41 avg rating — 5,021 ratings — published 2008 — 28 editions
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El último día de la vida an...
3.14 avg rating — 824 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions
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The Right Intention
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3.36 avg rating — 462 ratings — published 2002 — 11 editions
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Vida de Guastavino y Guasta...
3.58 avg rating — 353 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions
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Agosto, octubre
3.46 avg rating — 325 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions
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La risa caníbal: Humor, pen...
3.86 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions
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Ha dejado de llover
3.45 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 2012 — 9 editions
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La hermana de Katia
3.30 avg rating — 161 ratings — published 2001 — 11 editions
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En presencia de un payaso
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions
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“El amor no tenía nada que ver con el lenguaje. El amor era más bien un acontecimiento que ocurría precisamente contra el lenguaje.”
― Andrés Barba , Versiones de Teresa
tags: amor, lenguaje
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“But trees have no interest in good and evil, insects and plant roots have no interest in the reasons of man, much less his longing, and there is something comforting about that.”
― Andrés Barba, A Luminous Republic
tags: good-and-evil, humanity, longing, nature
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“So how does love start from scratch? How does one live in a world with no points of reference?”
― Andrés Barba, A Luminous Republic
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