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Author: Federico Ivanier
ISBN: 9781913109226
Format: Paperback
Extent: 129 pp
Price: £8.99
Publication: October 2023
Publisher: Hope Road
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The unnamed Uruguayan protagonist has accidentally booked the wrong ticket on a train journey between France and Spain and, finds himself in the Spanish border town of Irún with eight hours to kill. He meets a Spanish girl and her friends who befriend him, but we fear her intentions are not good. An unseen twist in the plot reveals our protagonist is not who he seems.
Narrated in a disturbing second person present tense that constantly questions the reader and with a rhythm marked by suspense and inspired by the author’s own experience of booking the wrong ticket on a train journey.
Hauntiingly mysterious – right to the end. Johanna Mc Calmont, World Kid Lit
Spectacularly written. Ivanier’s prose flows beautifully. Sebastián Vargas
Ivanier describes, with admirable freshness, that relationship between teenagers not very aware of their feelings. La República
A short and disturbing novel, but no less beautiful for that. Narrated with a rhythmic poetic pulse. Martín Otheguy, Montevideo Portal
Ivanier knows how to twist the plot in order to keep two parallel narratives alive and make everything work at the end. Matías Castro, El País Cultural
