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Gathered for the first time in English and spanning his entire career, Vampire in Love offers a selection of the Spanish master Enrique Vila-Matas’s finest short stories. An effeminate, hunchbacked barber on the verge of death falls in love with a choir boy. A fledgling writer on barbiturates visits Marguerite Duras’s Paris apartment and watches his dinner companion slip into the abyss. An unsuspecting man receives a mysterious phone call from a lonely ophthalmologist and visits his abandoned villa. The stories in Vampire in Love, selected and brilliantly translated by Margaret Jull Costa, are all told with Vila-Matas’s delightful erudition and wit, and his provocative questioning of the interrelation of art and life.

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'A writer who has no equal in the contemporary landscape of the Spanish novel.' Roberto Bolano ---------- 'Highly original, both lucid and ludic.' The Guardian ---------- 'He absorbs the reader into a singular territory in which life and literature are a shared enterprise.' Valerie Miles, New York Times ---------- 'Arguably Spain's most significant contemporary literary figure.' Joanna Kavenna, New Yorker ---------- 'Enrique Vila-Matas is a consistently rich and challenging contemporary Spanish-language novelist.' World Literature Today

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Enrique Vila-Matas is one of the great European storytellers. Translated into 37 languages, he has won numerous international literary prizes and been longlisted and shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Born in 1948 in Barcelona, he lived in Paris from 1974 to 1976 in a garret rented from Marguerite Duras, and now lives in Barcelona again. He is a founding Knight of the Order of Finnegans, which meets in Dublin every year to honour James Joyce. Margaret Jull Costa has been a literary translator for nearly thirty years and has translated works by writers such as Eça de Queiroz, José Saramago, Fernando Pessoa and Javier Marías.

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