Sleepwalking City
Chronicles and Stories from the Street
Seated on the shore of a time Lilián herself has helped to shape, a new and renovated aesthetic concept begins in Spain
Winston Manrique, Babelia Supplement. Diario El País
Sleepwalking City—Chronicles and Stories from the Street—, is Lilián Pallares' first published book, and the stories are accompanied by photographs taken by the New Zealand artist Charles Olsen. It was published by Editorial Aldevara in 2010, and includes the award-winning stories Reflexiones del Va y Ven (Refections of To and Fro) and Servicio Anónimo (Anonymous Service).
Anonymous Service is above all a very contemporary story, fast-paced, with the feel of an advertising spot or a film script, it's very modern.
Carmen Posadas, Writer
Can you be sure you're awake?
Read the streets, walk them, observe, live and write them. This is how I move through the sleepwalking city, a city whose inhabitants wander, dreaming their dreams and those of others.
In these pages wander anonymous stories living together in a Madrid of multiple colours and accents. Everything moves and changes in a city that awakens in dreams.
These are chronicles and stories told in the first person, experiences lived from inside by a detective spirit from a working-class neighbourhood. I've discovered them on corners, in the fragile look of a person out for a walk, in the silences of a small bar, in the carriages of the city's metro, beneath the canopies, in supermarkets on Fridays, between park benches and their skies, in your house or in mine.
Publisher: ALDEVARA
First edition: April 2010
ISBN: 978-84-92805-50-1
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Write to lilianp@yahoo.com to purchase a Spanish copy
It is available in English for Kindle: Sleepwalking City: Stories from the streets of Madrid (English Edition) translated by Charles Olsen
Kindle version in Spanish
Links
- Lilián Pallares speaks about her book Ciudad Sonámbula on Hora América on rtve (in Spanish, 8:50 min)
- El gran viaje de la cultura (in Spanish) by Winston Manrique Sabogal in Babelia, El País
- Interview with Lilian Pallares in Barrio Latino, TVE (in Spanish)
Her writing has a hybrid vision, intense and penetrating. Her capacity to tell of an everyday occurrence, and from there construct a whole world of mirrors, stands out.
Santiago Roncagliolo, Writer