Paris - Softcover

Marcos Giralt Torrente (Madrid, 1968) is a Spanish multi award-winning writer. He has published novels, collections of short stories and a memoir. 2014 ws his great debut in the English market with 3 works translated into English. In 2011 he won the Spanish National Book Award.

Margaret Jull Costa has been a literary translator for nearly thirty years and has translated many novels and short stories by Portuguese, Spanish and Latin American writers, including Javier Marías, Fernando Pessoa, José Saramago, Bernardo Atxaga and Ramón del Valle-Inclán.

“There are first novels that are anything but the work of a newcomer; the justness of the perceptions imposes itself, its potency and the mastery of its phrasing leave no room for doubt. Paris is one of these.”―Le Monde

“An interesting heir to the new paths opened up over a decade ago by authors such as J. Marías, E. Vila-Matas and I. Martínez de Pisón.”―El País

«Marcos Giralt has everything an author needs to lead the third generation of contemporary Spanish literature.»―E. Affinati, Il Giornale

«Almost poetry, an opera prima of rare beauty.»―Il Messaggero

"Paris reminds us that the stories we tell about others are always stories about ourselves. The attempt to understand another, through narrative, is like walking through a house of mirrors alone, hoping to catch, in one of those mirrors―the next one, perhaps, or the next one, the next one?―the image of another. Paris is an excellent first novel."―Quarterly Conversation

"Marcos Giralt Torrente's Paris is an excellent, psychological novel, a book which looks at the weakness of memory and the dangers of reliance on a single person in your life. . . Paris is intense and powerful, and the combination of great writing and an intriguing secret makes for an excellent novel. . . The writing is excellent, with a style reminiscent of Saramago and Marías"—Tony's Reading List

"'Paris' by Marcos Giralt Torrente is seriously the closest thing to Javier Marías I’ve ever read without actually being a Javier Marías novel. . . There’s also a bit of Ishiguro and a bit of Ford Madox Ford. These are all extremely high compliments where I come from."—Scott Esposito, Conversational Reading



There are first novels that are anything but the work of a newcomer; the justness of the perceptions imposes itself, its potency and the mastery of its phrasing leave no room for doubt. Paris is one of these.” Le Monde

An interesting heir to the new paths opened up over a decade ago by authors such as J. Marías, E. Vila-Matas and I. Martínez de Pisón.” El País

«Marcos Giralt has everything an author needs to lead the third generation of contemporary Spanish literature.» E. Affinati, Il Giornale

«Almost poetry, an opera prima of rare beauty.» Il Messaggero

"Paris reminds us that the stories we tell about others are always stories about ourselves. The attempt to understand another, through narrative, is like walking through a house of mirrors alone, hoping to catch, in one of those mirrors the next one, perhaps, or the next one, the next one? the image of another. Paris is an excellent first novel." Quarterly Conversation

"Marcos Giralt Torrente's Paris is an excellent, psychological novel, a book which looks at the weakness of memory and the dangers of reliance on a single person in your life. . . Paris is intense and powerful, and the combination of great writing and an intriguing secret makes for an excellent novel. . . The writing is excellent, with a style reminiscent of Saramago and Marías"—Tony's Reading List

"'Paris' by Marcos Giralt Torrente is seriously the closest thing to Javier Marías I’ve ever read without actually being a Javier Marías novel. . . There’s also a bit of Ishiguro and a bit of Ford Madox Ford. These are all extremely high compliments where I come from."—Scott Esposito, Conversational Reading