Four by Four

'Sara Mesa's writing is mysterious and fascinating: her characters brush against the limits in environments of fierce false calm. Un Amor is one of her best novels - tense and beautiful like a crouching bird.' – Mariana Enriquez

'When I read Sara Mesa, I'm there in the Wild West, sifting through the sand. There is a restless enjoyment, an inhospitable beauty, in my sieve. And then something miraculous when gold appears before my eyes.' – Eva Baltasar

'Sara Mesa sees the world through the lens of power, exploring how questions of strength and weakness shape human behaviour... Her writing has an unnerving force: with a single sentence, she can reveal the darkness at the heart of a situation like a lens sliding silently, suddenly into focus.’ – Annie McDermott, The TLS

‘Sara Mesa’s deft control and economy of language shouldn’t come as a surprise. She’s a poet. Her nouns are razored. Her verbs are explosive … If you haven’t read her, you should. She won’t waste your time.’ – European Literary Review 

Mesa’s work is tense, intimate, and unsettling … we can’t look away.’ 
– Literary Hub 

• Runner-up for The Premio Herralde 2012