With life on earth fading to a whisper, Carlos and Aitana are faced with a decision, monumental and world-altering, about what they are prepared to sacrifice to cleave to life. While in the margins of their story there slowly forms a portrait of what life looks like after earth - of our shared fate among the stars.
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Gorgeous, gripping, and totally original, The White Desert is a book of connection and loss against a backdrop of quiet catastrophe. I was captivated as its full force crept up on me, and by the end I was deeply moved -- Elvia Wilk A novel of fractured voices and fragile connections and shockingly persistent life. Existential dread atomises itself over everything - like a parlour game you didn't know you were playing. I loved it -- Ben Pester Limpid, striking and astute, The White Desert hums with urgency and ideas -- Chloe Aridjis Imagines a very near future in which - without nostalgia, but in a beautiful melancholic tone - we haven't forgotten who we were and who we are... A formally daring, fun, endearing, witty, stimulating novel -- Juan Pablo Villalobos A novel of fractured voices and fragile connections and shockingly persistent life. Existential dread atomises itself over everything - like a parlour game you didn't know you were playing. I loved it -- Ben Pester Limpid, striking and astute, The White Desert hums with urgency and ideas -- Chloe Aridjis
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The story of a millennial couple facing life on an increasingly fragile planet, and a stirring reflection on our place in the cosmos - for fans of Martin MacInnes and Olga Ravn.
Luis López Carrasco is an award-winning filmmaker and writer. Co-founder of the audiovisual collective Los Hijos, his work has been screened at numerous international festivals. His last film, The Year of Discovery, won numerous national and international awards, including the Goya Awards for best documentary film and best editing. The White Desert is his first novel.
Rosalind Harvey is a literary translator, whose work has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, the Guardian First Book Award and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, among others. She has translated Guadalupe Nettel's Still Born, along with work by Juan Pablo Villalobos and Elvira Navarro, among others. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Arts Foundation Fellow and a founding member of the Emerging Translators Network, and currently teaches on the MA in Literary Translation at the University of Warwick.
