Best of 2018: Kirkus Names The Right Intention

Kirkus Reviews names Andrés Barba’s The Right Intention one of the Best Books of 2018.

Transit News, Spanish LiteratureTransit BooksNovember 18, 2018Andrés Barba, The Right Intention, Such Small Hands, Kirkus Reviews, Best Books of 2018, Lisa Dillman, Spanish Literature, Translated Literature

Such Small Hands Wins Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize

Andrés Barba's Such Small Hands, translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman was named the winner of the 2018 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. Dillman's translation "pushes language to a near-breaking point."

Spanish Literature, Translated Fiction, AwardsTransit BooksJune 17, 2018Lisa Dillman, Such Small Hands, Andrés Barba, Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize, Translation

Such Small Hands Excerpted in Bomb

"It was once a happy city; we were once happy girls . . ."

Spanish Literature, Translated FictionTransit BooksApril 22, 2017Andrés Barba, Lisa Dillman, BOMB Magazine, Such Small Hands

John Freeman Recommends Andrés Barba

John Freeman calls Andrés Barba's "gorgeous" August, October one of the best books of 2015.

Translated Fiction, Spanish LiteratureTransit BooksDecember 5, 2015Andrés Barba, Transit Books, John Freeman, The Boston Globe, August October, Boston Globe, Lisa Dillman