Description: "On an international flight to a conference, the author Marta Sanz notices a tiny bump beneath her skin, just below her clavicle, near her breast bone. So begins an inquiry that is at turns satirical detective story, philosophical inquiry, memoir, and pure poetry"--
Brief description: Katie King is a journalist and literary translator with a PhD in Hispanic Studies. Her translations of Spanish poetry and prose have been published in Words Without Borders, World Literature Today, Columbia Journal, Translation Review, and The Spanish Riveter and in print anthologies published by Graywolf Press and Ecco Press. Her full-length book translations include Someone Speaks Your Name by Luis García Montero, director of Spain's Cervantes Institute, published by Swan Isle Press in January 2023, One Year and Three Months, also by García Montero, forthcoming from Vaso Roto in September 2025, and My Clavicle, by Spanish novelist Marta Sanz, forthcoming from Unnamed Press in July 2025. As a foreign correspondent and editor, Katie has lived and worked in London, New York, Madrid, Mexico City and Sao Paulo and traveled extensively in Spain and Latin America. She lives in Washington, DC.
Review Quotes: PRAISE FOR MARTA SANZ
"For a novel about an obsession with mortality, this witty tale brims with vitality." --Publishers Weekly
"Sanz's autofictional English-language debut is a poetic meditation on illness, mortality, and writing sure to please memoir readers and mystery enthusiasts alike." --The Millions
"A joyful representation of life." --Rafael Chirbes
"She has found the best way to be a political writer: her language is like a body. She talks to you like nobody else can." --ABC
"A literary experiment that is very different from what we're used to today in Spain... Sanz is one of the greatest." --Sara Mesa
"One of the most harsh, beautiful, brutal and impious books that I have read in a long time." --Leila Guerriero, El País
"A literary exercise in auto-fiction that also studies the mood of a family and a wider social environment." --Íñigo Urrutia, Diario Vasco
"Marta Sanz exposes her most intimate self to share her experiences during her years of anxiety and ravages. A tale that lifts the lid with admirable lucidity." --J. M Pozuelo Yvancos, ABC Cultural