I Made You Up Inside My Head

Name: I Made You Up Inside My Head
Brand: Riverhead Books
SKU: 9780593854105
Price: 33.60 USD
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Praise for I Made You Up Inside My Head

"Compelling and relatable." --Booklist

"Elegant ... assured prose and keen psychological insights." --Publishers Weekly

"Unsettling and powerful, this novel about who and what we choose to believe is a triumph." --Kirkus, STARRED review

"A tremendous novel with a cool and engrossing narrative voice that resonates with memorable intensity and effect." --William Boyd, author of Any Human Heart

"Marta Pérez-Carbonell's debut thrums with the momentum of a page turner while the sentences carry the grace of a great work of art. You'll think about storytelling and the "truth" anew after reading this beauty." --Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Friday Black and Chain-Gang All-Stars

"Brilliant and beguiling. Like a perfectly executed magic trick, Pérez-Carbonell's prose leaves you dazzled." --Soon Wiley, author of When We Fell Apart

"Pérez-Carbonell weaves a polyrhythmic narrative whose threads and patterns become addictive and leave behind an indelible impression." --Ledia Xhoga, author of Misinterpretation

"A brilliant novel about how we make meaning of the people who pass through our lives." --C J Hauser, author of The Crane Wife

"I was ensnared in the web that this cosmopolitan novel wove . . . I was spellbound." --El Pais

"A true testament to the faith and power of words and of literature. . . Captivates the reader from the very first page with mounting tension and incomparable beauty." -El Cultural

Biographical Note:
Marta Pérez-Carbonell was born and raised in Spain and now teaches contemporary Spanish literature at Colgate University in upstate New York; she has also worked as a translator and interpreter. This is her first novel.

Rosalind Harvey is a literary translator whose previous work has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, the Guardian First Book Award, and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, among other honors. She lives in London.

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