Nona's Room

Winner:Premio Nacional de Narrativa (2016)Premio de la Critica Española (2016)Premio Dulce Chacón (2016) Book of the Year 2015:La Vanguardia, El Cultural, Babelia and ABC An award-winning collection of Gothic and uncanny stories from one of Europe’s most celebrated contemporary writers of short fiction. In Nona’s Room the everyday fantasies of women slowly turn into nightmare, delusion and paranoia. A young girl who is envious of the attention given to her sister has a brutal awakening. A young woman, facing eviction, misplaces her trust in an old lady who invites her into her home. A mature woman spends the night in a hotel in Madrid and falls into a time warp... Cubas’s stories are suffused with the chilling tones of Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and the psychological intensity of Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train.

Cristina Fernández Cubas is an award-winning writer and journalist from Barcelona. Her story collection La Habitacion de Nona (Nona's Room) won both of the major literary awards in Spain, the Premio de la Critica Espanola and Premio Nacional de Narrativa. Simon Deefholts and Kathryn Phillips-Miles are Spanish translators.