This work is a tour-de-force. The translators have excelled in their carefully-crafted renditions. Salvador Espriu’s poetry comes alive in English. The translations are accurate while providing English readers with a text that reads like poetry. This book will be enjoyed by many English readers in the years to come.
Before the dark side of the Internet and TikTok, there were the false promises of TV and the tabloids. Part love affair, part loss of innocence, part plight of a teenage girl immersed in survival, Born Lucky invites the reader into the tragic, naive truth about how popular culture devours teenage girl.
