Scar - (Spanish Literature) by Sara Mesa (Paperback)

About the Book

Originally published in 2015 in Spanish.

Book Synopsis

Sonia meets Knut in an online literary forum and begins a long-distance relationship with him that gradually turns to obsession. Though Sonia needs to create distance when Knut becomes too absorbing, she also yearns for a less predictable existence. Alternately attracted to and repulsed by Knut, Sonia begins a secret double life of theft and betrayal in which she will ultimately be trapped for years.

Review Quotes

"Scar is an original story, written with a concise, direct, fast, transparent style and almost with the asepsis of a surgeon."-- "RTVE (Spain)"

"(She) consolidates a new narrative voice that is able to bear important fruits in the Spanish novel of the 21st century."-- "El Mundo"

"[It has] the ability to turn the stereotyped concept of seduction back into its most bitter facets: possession, vanity and the need to feel fetishized."-- "RNE Narrative Critical Eye Award (Spain)"

"A good, modern novel of two young people learning reciprocally about adult life . . . Sara Mesa confirms our good expectations."-- "El Mundo"

"An atmosphere that evokes the prison labyrinths of Piranessi and the suffocation of the Dostoievskian underground."-- "El Pais"