2 Novels by Elvira Navarro
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Overview: (Huelva, 1978) has a degree in Philosophy. In 2004 she won the Contest of Young Creators of the City of Madrid, and between 2005 and 2008 he enjoyed a scholarship to create in the Student Residence. In 2007 appeared his first book, the city in winter (Trojan horse), that was warmly received by the critic and distinguished like New Fnac Talent. In 2009 he published La ciudad feliz (Mondadori), which won the XXV Jaén Prize for Novel and the IV Storm Prize for the best new author, and was chosen by Cultures of the newspaper Público as one of the revelation books of the year. Elvira Navarro was included in the list of the 22 best narrators in Spanish language under 35 years of Granta magazine.
Genre: Fiction
A Working Woman: Acclaimed as a meticulous explorer of the psyche’s most obscure alleyways, Elvira Navarro here gives us a novel of feminine friendship, potent sexuality, madness, and the vulnerability that makes us reveal our most shameful secrets. It begins as Elena transcribes the ravings of her roommate Susana, acting as part-therapist, part-confessor while this odd woman recounts the shocking tale of her gay dwarf boyfriend, the only person who will fulfill her singular sexual appetites. But is she telling the truth? And what to make of Elena’s strange account of her difficult relationship with Susana, one that blends her ambitions as a writer with her deep need for catharsis? And in one final surprise, A Working Woman concludes with a curious epilogue that makes us question everything we have just read. With her penchant for finding the freakish side of the everyday, and her precisely timed, mordant sentences, Navarro’s most successful novel to-date masterfully uncovers the insecurity lurking just beneath the surface of every stable life.
The Happy City: “I feel terrible. Although he doesn’t say it, I know he had been hoping the whole time that I would explain it all somehow; but I can’t explain it, because I don’t understand anything.” These disturbing words, almost a distillation of the entire text, close the novel "The Happy City" by Elvira Navarro, who featured in Granta’s "The Best of Young Spanish-language Novelists" issue in 2010.
The stories of Chi-Huei—a Chinese boy whose family has come to Spain in search of a better life—and his friend Sara—a girl strangely fascinated by a homeless man—comprise two separate yet complementary sections, presenting the reader with a detailed account of their life circumstances and the nuances of their perspectives: the genuine, as-yet untamed voices through which the book’s pre-adolescent protagonists negotiate the world around them, their initial astonishment finally turning to frustration as they gaze upon their dehumanized society.
A pre-teen’s first faltering steps towards sexuality, social pressures, the way polarized outlooks on life coexist at the core of the same family, those first experiences of disillusionment as we awaken into the adult world: these are some of the themes that Navarro lays out for her readers in order to reveal, with razor-sharp control, the constant duality that exists between the outward appearance of things and their inner reality.
“This author’s literary talent is a natural gift … [Navarro is] the subtle, almost hidden, true avant-gardist of her generation.” Enrique Vila-Matas, El País
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