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Carolina Sanin - The Children

April 10, 2020

Carolina Sanin - The Children

Carolina Sanin - The Children

One day, as she enters her local supermarket, Laura Romero has a startling encounter with a beggar, who seems to offer her a child. A short while later, in the middle of the night, she discovers a mysterious young boy on the pavement outside her apartment building: Fidel, who is six years old, a child with seemingly no origins or meaning. With few clues to guide her as she tries to discover his real identity, Laura finds herself swept into a bureaucratic maelstrom of fantastical proportions.

Read excerpt from Carolina Sanin’s The ChildrenThe excerpt from Carolina Sanin’s The Children, is published in English by MacLehose Press, an imprint of Quercus. English translation by Nick Caistor.