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Jesos Carrasco was born in Badajoz in 1972 and currently lives in Seville. Since 1996 he has worked as an advertising copy writer. His first novel, Out in the Open, was declared Book of the Year by booksellers in Madrid. The Dutch translation was shortlisted for the European Literature Prize 2014. Out in the Open will be published in nineteen countries around the world.
[A] searing, beautifully observed debut -- Eithne Farry * Sunday Express * Undeniably impressive and compelling because everything is everywhere so thoroughly and keenly imagined and realised -- Allan Massie * Scotsman * Its rural lexicon enriches a tale told with savage precision, and filled with memorable passages -- Julius Purcell * The Times Literary Supplement * The writing is austere with flourishes of great beauty from an exceptional translator -- Rosie Goldsmith * Independent * This novel's deep theme is a peculiar kind of heroism - that of claiming, in a world stripped to necessity, a human remainder of grace: the choice to bear witness to ideals that are more precious than survival and that exist only in our affirmation of them. Out in the Open is a harrowing, humane, and very beautiful book -- Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You
