Napalm in the Heart

'Innovative and original.' Colm Tóibìn
'Unforgettable.' Alejandro Zambra
'A punk novel with prose as mysterious as it is beautiful.' Nicole Flattery
'Pol Guasch must be one of the best young writers working today.' Catherine Lacey

The arrival of a blistering debut voice in international literature, and a radical work of literary fiction-poetic, provocative, artful and singular.

In a deserted village, an unnamed young man waits for an opportunity to escape. Society has been militarised, the dead lie unburied and thugs patrol the land. As he waits, he marks the days that pass and writes to his lover Boris, with whom he shares an animal desire.

In a series of impassioned dispatches, Napalm in the Heart unearths what it means to survive when language and nature fail, to refuse to give up when everything is lost.

Translated from the Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem

Format/pages: hardback / 256 pages

ISBN: 9780571375257

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Year: 2024