{"product_id":"the-city-paperback","title":"The City - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLara Moreno\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKatie Whittemore\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eAlice Banks\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Unexpected Portrait of Madrid through Three Women\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a single apartment building in Madrid, the lives of three women intersect. On the fourth floor, Oliva's passionate relationship has given way to abuse, her lover seeming more and more like an animal, her apartment more and more like a cage. On the third, Damaris, who emigrated from Colombia after a devastating earthquake, spends each day working as the nanny to two privileged children while hoping her efforts will provide a better life for her own. And in the tiny, disused apartment on the ground floor, Horia, a Moroccan woman who first came to Spain as a seasonal agricultural laborer, works as the building's caretaker while searching for her missing son. Through the stories of these women, award-winning author Lara Moreno paints a vivid portrait of urban isolation and societal marginalization. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith unflinching, propulsive prose, \u003ci\u003eThe City\u003c\/i\u003e plunges down the paths that led these women to and through a metropolitan landscape shaped by inequality and cultural division. With three closely-drawn character portraits and the pacing of a thriller, Moreno's novel offers a geographyof resilience and despair in a city marked by social and cultural division.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLara Moreno\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1978 in Seville and lives in Madrid, where she works as an editor and teaches writing. She has published the collections of short fiction \u003ci\u003eCasi todas las tijeras\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCuatro Veces Fuego\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as several books of poetry, which have been collected, along with new and unpublished poems, in \u003ci\u003eTempestad en víspera de viernes\u003c\/i\u003e. She was awarded the FNAC New Talent Award upon the publication of her first novel, \u003ci\u003ePor si se va la luz\u003c\/i\u003e (In Case We Lose Power, forthcoming from Open Letter books), which was followed by the critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eWolfskin \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe City.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatie Whittemore\u003c\/b\u003e translates from the Spanish. Her translations include novels by Sara Mesa, Javier Serena, Aroa Moreno Durán, Lara Moreno, Nuria Labari, Katixa Agirre, Jon Bilbao, Juan Gómez Bárcena, Almudena Sánchez, Aliocha Coll, and Pilar Adón. She received an NEA Translation Fellowship in 2022 for Lara Moreno's \u003ci\u003eIn Case We Lose Power\u003c\/i\u003e, and has been a finalist for the Spain-USA Foundation Translation Prize and the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize, and shortlisted for the National Translation Award. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlice Banks\u003c\/b\u003e is a translator from Spanish and French based in Madrid with a MA in Literary translation from the University of East Anglia. Her other translations include \u003ci\u003eDeranged As I Am \u003c\/i\u003eby Ali Zamir, \u003ci\u003eMadrid Will Be Their Tomb \u003c\/i\u003eby Elizabeth Duval, and \u003ci\u003eDouble Room \u003c\/i\u003eby Anne Sénès. She also works as an Editorial Assistant for The European Literature Network, where she writes the monthly column, \"La Española,\" and worked as Assistant Editor on The Spanish \u003ci\u003eRiveter\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, to which she contributed several translations and articles.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 26, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48629884256505,"sku":"9781960385499","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/ovK9rVtsmT9781960385499.webp?v=1783063042","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-city-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}