From an audacious new talent, The Story of H describes a searing quest by a Japanese woman and an American soldier to find a girl who goes missing in the aftermath of Hiroshima, a journey that spans the globe and travels to the darkest corners of the human mind and memory 
August 6, 1945: the day Enola Gay unleashed an atomic inferno over Hiroshima. In the wake of its devastation, two stories unfold. There’s Jim, an American soldier who was entrusted with taking care of Yoro, a Japanese girl who then disappears after the atomic bomb falls. And there’s H, a Japanese child who is at school when the bomb drops and is indelibly marked by its destruction. Both victims of the bomb, H and Jim meet for the first time in New York years later—their paths cross by chance, they fall in love, and together they continue Jim’s search for Yoro. A quixotic twenty-first century quest to discover what makes us human, from refugee camps to the slave mines of Africa, from Brazil to Borneo, Japan to Mexico, it’s also a journey that plumbs the depths and heights of cruelty and compassion, vulnerability and violence. 
Marina Perezagua’s urgent, incantatory, and highly original novel moves us beyond our understanding of history as broad and sweeping to the individual stories of those who feel joy and pain, who suffer and transcend. Both dazzling and dark, The Story of H pulsates with a terrible beauty and power that lingers with the reader long after the last page.

The Story of H: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Perezagua, Marina

United States

Ecco

The second brilliant book of short stories by Marina Perezagua, it transports us from the Neolithic era to a current beach in the south of Spain; from Hiroshima after the bomb to China invaded by Japan, in stories analyze eroticism, cruelty, love, and hate that swim around in daily life and disasters.

Leche (Literaturas) (Spanish Edition)

Contemporary

Malpaso Editorial

Yoro is the unprecedented testimony of a woman that is not ready to accept a tragic destiny and harsh criticism at what makes life difficult to bear: the war and violence, but also the scientific and religious dogmas that do not allow us to be ourselves. Translated into six languages, it is the story of a woman that fights against the world and wins, but must pay a heavy price.

Yoro (Spanish Edition)

In this book, the reader will meet The Impenetrable, a famous artist who circus number corresponds with his nickname; an elderly and dignified lady that becomes a nightmare for her family or a woman capable of putting her lover in prison to keep him away from the world. These are some of the abysmal creatures in the first book by Marina Perezagua, a narrator capable of reinventing the fantasy genre with an imagination as fascinating as her writing.

Criaturas abisales (Spanish Edition)

Genre Fiction

In this modern novel by Marina Perezagua, Don Quixote is disguised as C3P0 and Sancho Panza has chosen an Ewok suit to cross over to New York. In one of many chance encounters on their trip, a woman gives her Bible to Don Quixote who avidly reads it for a week. This reading inspires the adventures of the pair as they explore recognizable parts of the city today. In these short stories, New York appears as a big state where anything can happen.

Don Quijote de Manhattan (Spanish Edition)

Classics

This is a novel about two families and two continents. A man is executed in China as a victim of organ trafficking. His heart is transplanted into an American. According to Buddhist tradition, if the heart is not buried with the dead man, he will not rest in peace. His heirs must bring him back to China.

Seis formas de morir en Texas (Spanish Edition)

Literary

Editorial Anagrama

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