The Longest Pause

Going to give birth and then not wanting to. Getting excited at a funeral. Writing a story about the Civil War with a naked woman asleep on top of you. Going crazy hanging out the washing. Never finishing the shopping list. These seventeen stories offer situations that are day-to-day, unreal, comical and emotional and have a tone that moves between biting irony and intimate revelation. Tina Vallès is a storyteller with a great talent for observation, capable of detecting unlikely daily events and capturing secret emotion, and this she does talking to the reader with a seductive simplicity.

El parèntesi més llarg is a book of stories and also a book of pauses, grateful escapes, moments of truce that generate changes.

Situated in a contemporary, urban environment like Barcelona today these 17 stories by Tina Vallès are both a solid and surprising offering.