Translation Rights TQE / The quadrant of Las Planas

Finalist of the V Tusquets Editores Prize for Novel in 2009

Sera Idókiliz Gandiaga, half-Basque and half-Galician, thinks he has been hiding over a year and a half in The Quadrant of Las Planas, a lost and dream-like place in the deserts of South America. He has rented a tumbledown hut that he has managed to adapt to his needs, up until the owner demands that he leaves. From that point on, he must endure a chaotic escape through dusty fields where orientation becomes a problem, an aimless journey where he will meet the strange characters that inhabit the area. A brief return to his native Bilbao, his family’s land far beyond the blurry territory of The Quadrant, will suffice in order for reality to reveal other faces, different reasons…

Praise for previous novels:

“As in one of his novels, we will soon have to investigate the case of Willy Uribe, an author who insists upon giving proof of his undeniable imagination and sensibility in his articles and all of his books. A piece of advice: Keep on his trail.” El Mundo

 “Like all good adventure novels, this one is an expression of the human condition, of its downfalls and its greatness.”La Vanguardia

“Much more brutal than James Ellroy.” Negra y criminal

Willy Uribe was born in Bilbao in 1965. He is a writer and a photographer and his first work, Crónicas del salitre (Chronicles of Sea Water), came about from his surfing experiences and trips. In 2006 he published Nanga, his first novel, which was critically acclaimed. In 2008, Sé que mi padre decía (I Knew My Father Used to Say) was awarded the Silverio Cañada Prize and the Paper Lantern by the Bilbao Book Chamber.