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Ivan Repila worked in advertising, graphic design, and publishing before turning to writing with his highly acclaimed debut novel, Despicable Comedy. His second novel, The Boy Who Stole Attila's Horse, was his first to appear in English. Repila's work is celebrated in his homeland of Spain and praised for its originality and depth, and has been translated into more than fifteen languages. Mara Faye Lethem is an award-winning translator of contemporary Catalan and Spanish prose, and the author of A Person's a Person, No Matter How Small. Her recent translations include books by Patricio Pron, Max Besora, Javier Calvo, Marta Orriols, Toni Sala, Alicia Kopf, and Irene Sol . She is currently translating the collected short stories of Pere Calders.
The satire is searing. -New York Times Book Review [A] biting new satire...[a] very funny book about how hard it is to put political belief into action...Repila charms and amuses. -The Telegraph Surprisingly tender...[Repila] always keeps the political firmly entrenched in the personal...The Ally is dark, funny, self-aware, and clever. -Litro Magazine The Ally, an entertaining satire on the role of men in the feminist revolution, has become a little literary phenomenon. -GQ (Spain) Guerrilla warfare between feminists and masculinists keeps escalating, taking this suspense novel from Ivan Repila into a darkly comic dystopia...funny and surprisingly profound. -Le Monde des livres Hilarious and provocative. -Que Leer Will pro-feminism be 'the final revolution to build a just, egalitarian, and environmentalist world?' Ivan Repila confesses it's the only utopia he believes in...And we want to believe in it with him. -Cosmopolitan (France) Funny and intelligent...the definitive Spanish novel that any man who aspires to call himself a feminist must read. -Marina Garces, Open University of Catalonia Through this brilliantly incisive tale of a man determined to be the best feminist ever, Ivan Repila takes us on a no-holds-barred, brutally satirical, and wild ride through twenty-first-century machismo and misogyny. Deeply intelligent, brave, funny, and provocative. -Julianne Pachico, author of The Anthill and The Lucky Ones
