Books / Bookshops
‘It feels great to be in a space that is exactly what I wanted it to be’
By Freya Parr, Thursday May 6, 2021
In recent years, the top end of Gloucester Road has become a destination in its own right.
With Fed 303, Cave and the new Pinkmans pop-up, there are now plenty of spots to get a coffee or a glass of wine on a weekend. And now, a bookshop has joined their midst.
“Can my daughter please get a Saturday job here?”, one customer begs as I enter Gloucester Road Books on a busy Saturday.
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Argentina, the country that produced Jorge Luis Borges, has an impressively rich seam of weird writers. Authors such as Samanta Schweblin (see Little Eyes) and Agustina Bazterrica (Tender Is the Flesh
âI love the work of Elizabeth Strout â she can build characters with nothingâ: Samanta Schweblin in Kreuzberg, Berlin, last month. Photograph: Steffen Roth/The Observer
âI love the work of Elizabeth Strout â she can build characters with nothingâ: Samanta Schweblin in Kreuzberg, Berlin, last month. Photograph: Steffen Roth/The Observer
The Argentinian writer on how the small mechanical toys she dreamed up for her most recent novel might become a reality; and the forthcoming Netflix film of her debut, Fever Dream
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Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1978, Samanta Schweblin is the author of three short story collections, and in 2010 was chosen by Granta as one of the best writers in Spanish under 35. Her debut novel,
Samanta Schweblin: ‘In fiction we try not to talk about technology’ Kathryn Bromwich
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1978, Samanta Schweblin is the author of three short story collections, and in 2010 was chosen by Granta as one of the best writers in Spanish under 35. Her debut novel,
Fever Dream (2014, translated by Megan McDowell in 2017), won the Shirley Jackson award for best novella and was shortlisted for the Booker International prize. Schweblin’s second novel,
Little Eyes, out now in paperback, imagines a reality in which people keep “kentuki” – small, animal-shaped devices with cameras for eyes, controlled by an unknown user somewhere across the globe. She lives in Berlin.
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