Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency

Return to the short story genre of Jose María Merino, Premio Nacional de Narrativa y Premio Nacional de la Crítica "Each one chooses the responsibility of his destiny." A pope dreams of God's resignation, a young writer tries to relate the end of the rural world, a man seeks in the depths of the sea to get away from the atrocities on the surface, a couple reaches the seventh continent, formed by the accumulation of plastic, that... - Read more

The Back Yard is an intimate and universal story on life, disenchantment and grief. The author of Baudelaire’s Flowers, sets his sight on family conflicts, in the injustice of some of our society’s approaches, in the difficulty of facing our own fate. The main character, Pablo, is a young man of the eighties who has started to study law and lives with his family in an apartment that gives out onto a courtyard. On weekends he goes... - Read more