Dwarf Loves

Federico Jeanmaire

NOVEL. ANAGRAMA, 2016. 192 PAGES.

A FINALIST IN THE 34TH HERRALDE PRIZE FOR THE NOVEL

The dwarves Perico and Milagro make a living as strippers. Their number in the bar, based around Perico's big penis, becomes the most successful of the programme. With the money they earn, they start to build houses forming a community of dwarves. The most important rule is that no one taller than 147cm can enter the neighbourhood. One of them, Cristina, begins to have a sexual relationship with both Perico and Milagro.
Everything seems to go so well that they conclude that they can put on their show in their neighbourhood. Their admirer, the very attractive and tall journalist Eliana, supports them at first, until a democratic vote of the community decides that she must also pay to see the show. Eliana pays but never returns. Where she does continue to appear - entering against the community's most important rule - is in Perico's bed, and when Cristina discovers this, it causes a scandal that the journalist will end up paying for with her life.
Dwarf Loves is a novel about love and sex, about solitude and isolation, about jealousy, and about guilt that shows how strength of passion is not measured in metres or centimetres. A text that forces us to look at ourselves from a different point of view, but also a story to amuse the reader.

"The funniest novel of the year.... A corrosive fable...written with an acrobat's neatness. A book undoubtedly recommendable."
Alberto Olmos, El Confidencial

 

"Jeanmaire shows a masterful technical solvency and with it achieves one of those absorbing narratives that (...) leads to reading in one go.... So many amusing moments in the novel mask an implacable portrait of the impossible human coexistence".
Santos Sanz Villanueva, Mercurio

 

PUBLISHED BY: Spanish ANAGRAMA

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