Awards

• Winner of Premio Bartolomé Hidalgo - winner / National Prize for Literature from the Uruguayan Ministry for Education (Uruguay).
• Winner of The Academy of British Cover Design - Young Adult 2024 (UK)

Overview

The unnamed Uruguayan protagonist has accidentally booked the wrong ticket on a train journey between France and Spain and, finds himself in the Spanish border town of Irun with eight hours to kill. He meets a Spanish girl and her friend who befriend him, but we fear her intentions are not good. An unseen twist in the plot reveals our protagonist is not who he seems. Narrated in a disturbing second person present tense that constantly questions the reader and with a rhythm marked by suspense and inspired by the author's own experience of booking the wrong ticket on a train journey.

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9781913109226

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‘Hauntingly mysterious right to the end’ Johanna McCalmont World Kid Lit; ‘Spectacularly written, Ivanier’s prose flows beautifully’ Sabastian Vargas;Ivanier describes with admirable freshness, that relationship between teenagers not very aware of their feelings’ La República;

'Hauntiingly mysterious - right to the end' Johanna Mc Calmont, World Kid Lit 'Spectacularly written. Ivanier's prose flows beautifully' SEBASTIÁN VARGAS 'Ivanier describes, with admirable freshness, that relationship between teenagers not very aware of their feelings' La República 'A short and disturbing novel, but no less beautiful for that. Narrated with a rhythmic poetic pulse' MARTÍN OTHEGUY, Montevideo Portal Ivanier knows how to twist the plot in order to keep two parallel narratives alive and make everything work at the end' MATÍAS CASTRO, El País Cultural

Author Information

Federico Ivanier is an acclaimed Uruguayan writer for young people. He has written over twenty books that have been published across Latin America. On more than one occasion, his works have been awarded the National Prize for Literature from the Uruguayan Ministry for Education and Culture as well as the Premio Bartolome Hidalgo, one of the country's most important literary awards. Federico has also work occasionally as a screenwriter and teaches English as a second language.

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