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Jesús Carrasco

Biography

Jesús Carrasco

Jesús Carrasco was born in Badajoz, Spain, and now lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. OUT IN THE OPEN, his debut novel, was a huge bestseller in Spain, published in more than twenty-one countries, and is the winner of many international awards, including the European Union Prize for Literature 2016 and an English PEN award.

Jesús Carrasco

Books by Jesús Carrasco

by Jesús Carrasco - Dystopian, Dystopian Fiction, Fiction

A young boy has fled his home. He’s pursued by dangerous forces. What lies before him is an infinite, arid plain, one he must cross in order to escape those from whom he’s fleeing. One night on the road, he meets an old goatherd, a man who lives simply but righteously, and from that moment on, their paths intertwine. OUT IN THE OPEN tells the story of this journey through a drought-stricken country ruled by violence. A world where names and dates don’t matter, where morals have drained away with the water. In this landscape, the boy --- not yet a lost cause --- has the chance to choose hope and bravery, or to live forever mired in the cycle of violence in which he was raised.