A Preview of Toni Sala’s The Boys
The new title from Two Lines Press, Toni Sala’s The Boys, translated by Mara Faye Lethem, is finally available!
Toni Sala is a leading Catalan author and The Boys won the Premis de la Crítica, the most prestigious award in Catalan writing, after its release in Spain in 2014.
This is the first book of Sala’s to appear in English, and we’re excited to share with you the book that Kirkus Reviews recently called “altogether brilliant.”
The Boys is a profound story of how the deaths of two young men change the lives of four individuals in the small town of Vidreres. With intricate meditations worthy of Javier Marías, Sala masterfully conjures the voices of each of the four characters and entwines their lives and their feelings of guilt, fear, and rage over an unspeakable loss.
We hope you agree that this English-language debut puts him in the company of the best world writers.
Read excerpts from the book at Tin House and Words Without Borders. And order your copy today!
On November 3 we hosted Sala and translator Mara Faye Lethem (center and right in the above photo, with Two Lines Press Editorial Director CJ Evans at left) for a dynamic reading and discussion at the American Bookbinders Museum in San Francisco.
If you needed more reasons to read the book, here are a few: Powell’s Books called Sala a “stirring, unique new voice in English translation,” and Publishers Weekly gave The Boys a starred review and wrote, “Sala is a master of meditation, and the excitement and intrigue are never sacrificed despite digressive passages on Internet alienation, art, violence, phrases of grief, the Spanish recession, and love.”
