Translation Rights TQE / A trip with Clara through Germany

By the winner of the Spanish Language Academy Prize with

LOS PECES DE LA AMARGURA

Clara has been assigned to write a personal guide to Germany, and she convinces her husband to take some time off to travel along with her through the northern part of the country. For her, this is the opportunity to finish a personal and inspired work. For him, a Spanish man who has not lived in the country for very many years, it will be the perfect opportunity to take a pleasant vacation, with the small inconvenience of having to visit museums and the homes of famous writers… and all types of bookstores where he must ask for the only book that his wife has published.

A delicious marital comedy disguised as an on-the-road novel, an itinerant journal that provides an ironic and admiring view of German culture, but above all, a hilarious counter-chronicle of a trip with literary ambitions that has many wonderful scenes about the life of a couple, of a family.

“Viaje con Clara por Alemania reaffirms Aramburu’s best qualities, unique in our contemporary narrative: imagination, fluidity, thematic variety and a tenderness without sentimentalism.” La Vanguardia

“One of the rare literary pure breeds who has not lost faith literature as an inquisition of reality. Viaje con Clara por Alemania is a wonderful mockery of the solemnity of literature… This novel should be savored slowly, without rushing it, to make it last longer, like all good things should.” El Periódico de Catalunya

Fernando Aramburu was born in San Sebastián in 1959. He has a degree in Spanish Language, Literature and Linguistics from Zaragoza University. He currently lives in Germany, where he has worked as a Spanish teacher since 1985. His work has been granted, among others, the Ramón Gómez de la Serna Prize 1997, the Euskadi Prize 2001, and for his short stories Los peces de la amargura (The Fish of Sorrow) the XI Mario Vargas Llosa NH Prize, the Dulce Chacón Prize, and the Prize of the Spanish Language Academy. The movie Bajo las estrellas (Under the Stars) based on Aramburu’s novel El trompetista del utopía (The trumpet player of the Utopia) was awarded a Goya Prize in 2008 for best adapted screenplay by the Spanish Cinematographic Academy.