Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency

Prizewinning Portuguese novelist Inês Pedrosa's splendid new novel is charged with drama, poetry, and humor. Rosa Cabral, its vibrant protagonist, is a striking young fado singer and composer. The daughter of a television show host and an unknown father whom she is attempting to find, Rosa is also passionately involved with Gabriel, a bookseller who uses books as a barrier against the storm of life.  Rosa’s restlessness finds... - Read more

The young seamstress Sira Quiroga leaves Madrid months before the up-rising, dragged by her unbridled love for a man whom she hardly knows. Together they settle in Tangiers, a mundane city, exotic and vibrant where all the unthinkable can become real, even betrayal and desertion. Alone and hounded by debts, Sira moves to Tetuan, capital of the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco. With unspeakable schemes and the help of friends of ill repute, she... - Read more

When the poet Luis Cernuda flees Spain in February of 1938, he has no idea that he will never again set foot on his native land. In exile in England, his former lover finds him a disheartening job that only intensifies his feelings of bitterness and despair: caring for 3,800 refugee children who have also fled to England after the city of Bilbao fell to Franco’s army. Seventy years later, a young Mexican filmmaker living in New York... - Read more

“A stunning essay that covers the literary tradition of an entire continent”, that is how the jury of the III Premio Debate-Casa de America describes “The Island of the Lost Tribes”, an elegant narration that rescues the classic themes of the shipwreck: the storm, the boat or the isle, all to tell us how Latin America unwilling turns into in West’s very opposite. A lovely meditation where Gabriel García... - Read more