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A blend of magic realism, folklore, body horror and dark feminist allegory, Catalan writer Irene Sola’s newest novel I Gave You Eyes And You Looked Toward Darkness serves up bewitching prose.

A blend of magic realism, folklore, body horror and dark feminist allegory, Catalan writer Irene Sola’s newest novel I Gave You Eyes And You Looked Toward Darkness serves up bewitching prose.

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I Gave You Eyes And You Looked Toward Darkness

By Irene Sola, translated by Mara Faye Lethem
Fiction/Granta Books/Hardcover/176 pages/$30.66

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