Never Tell Anyone Your Name
Federico Ivanier (Translated by Claire Storey)
Category:
Fiction | Young Adult
ABOUT THE BOOK
Travelling between France and Spain, a 16-year-old boy is marooned in the Spanish border town of Irun. Snow is falling, darkness is creeping in, and the next train to Madrid is not due until midnight.
The boy is hungry. And he has eight hours to kill.
His favourite rock band blasting in his ears, he explores the shuttered town, thinking of Lucrecia, his first love who told him it was over. A dark-eyed girl befriends him, and the two teens spend the evening walking and talking. As midnight approaches, and the boy with no name must leave and return to board his train, dark forces gather and his eight hours in Irun come to a truly shocking end.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Federico Ivanier is an acclaimed Uruguayan writer for young people. He has
written over twenty books that have been published across Latin America. On
more than one occasion, his works have been awarded the National Prize for
Literature from the Uruguayan Ministry for Education and Culture as well as the
Premio Bartolomé Hidalgo, one of the country’s most important literary
awards. Federico has also worked occasionally as a screenwriter and teaches
English as a second language.
Photo: © Alessandro Maradei
REVIEWS
‘Spectacularly written. Ivanier’s prose flows beautifully’
Sebastián Vargas
‘Narrated in a disturbing second person voice that constantly questions the reader, and with a rhythm marked by suspense (there is skill and mastery in the way information is drip fed), contrasts (the beautiful and the terrible, fear and safety) and a delicate balance between the sparsity and minutiae of the descriptions’
Rosanna Peveroni,
La Diaria
’A short and disturbing novel, but no less beautiful for that. Narrated with a rhythmic poetic pulse’
Martín Otheguy,
Montevideo Portal
‘Ivanier describes, with admirable freshness, that relationship between teenagers not very aware of their feelings’
La República
‘Ivanier knows how to twist the plot in order to keep two parallel narratives alive and make everything work at the end’
Matiás Castro,
El País Cultural
‘Hauntingly mysterious… right to the end’
Johanna Calmont, World Kit Lit
‘This spellbinding novel is perfect for young lovers of dark mysteries and horror’
Morning Star