The Things We've Seen

Agustín Fernández Mallo is one of Spain's most influential and critically acclaimed contemporary authors. His Nocilla Trilogy, which we published between 2015-2019, and which was published by FSG in the US, has been well received in the Anglosphere. The Things We've Seen was awarded the Biblioteca Breve Prize in 2018. The prize aims to 'promote new voices for the renewal of contemporary European literature', and the winner should represent 'a thematic and stylistic innovation' and 'an advancement in social consciousness and historical responsibility'. The jury of the Biblioteca Breve Prize described The Things We've Seen as 'a novel of great ambition, in which Agustín Fernández Mallo displays a style synthesizing such diverse disciplines as science, technology, history, and popular culture, which crystallizes in this extraordinary novel the peculiar light given off by our era.' Through its fusion of these disciplines,The Things We've Seen deftly maps our contemporary world, drawing together a portrait which is rich in allusion, poetic in style and sprawling in its concerns. Its disruption of the traditional novel form makes it a singular book, one that will contribute to the ever-developing discussion around the novel and what it can do. Thomas Bunstead has translated an impressive array of literary works, working with some of the leading Spanish-language writers working today, including Yuri Herrera, Enrique Vila-Matas, and Juan Villoro.