BITTER LEMON PRESS
First published in the United Kingdom in 2018 by
Bitter Lemon Press, 47 Wilmington Square, London WC1X 0ET
The Blood, Guts and Love stories were first published in Catalan as part of Set casos de sang i fetge i una història d’amor by Edicions 62, Barcelona, 2010.
The stories in Connections were first published in Catalan as Matèria Grisa by Amsterdam, Ara Llibres, Barcelona, and received the Roc Boronat Prize 2017.
Versions of some of the stories in this collection have previously been published in the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, The Massachusetts Review and Mediterraneans. ‘The Son-in-Law’ appeared in both in the Words Without Borders Best of the First Ten Years anthology and the Found in Translation anthology of the best hundred stories in world literature from Head of Zeus. Connections won the prestigious Catalan 2107 Roc Boronat prize, and ‘Still Life No. 41’ was shortlisted for the 2013 Edgar award.
The translation of this work has been supported by the Institut Ramon Llull.
©Teresa Solana 2018
English translation ©Peter Bush 2018
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eBook ISBN 978–1–912242–08–5
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