Guasch, Pol
Entry updated 2 September 2024. Tagged: Author.
Working name of Spanish/Catalan author Pol Guasch i Arcas (1997- ), whose first novel, Napalm al cor (2021; trans Mara Faye Lethem as Napalm in the Heart 2024), is set Equipoisally im either or both an indeterminately Near Future Nomansland or the remains of an earthly City that might have once resembled Barcelona. In either version of the world to come, Climate Change has decimated civilization. The narrative itself is woven around a fractured family, Gender issues occasioned by the unnamed protagonist's sexual orientation, the violence of the lovemaking that drives him: overall a sense of loss as penetrating at these levels of intimacy as it is for the planet at large. [JC]
Pol Guasch i Arcas
born Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain: 31 December 1997
works
- Napalm al cor (Barcelona, Spain: Anagrama, 2021) [in the publisher's Llibres Anagrama series: pb/]
- Napalm in the Heart (London: Faber and Faber, 2024) [trans by Mara Faye Lethem of the above: hb/]
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