A review by porgyreads
Such Small Hands by Andrés Barba

5.0

How have I never heard of this before. I was struck by its title and the cover and wanted something creepy and short to delight me. But I wasn’t just delighted I was mesmerised. The sensory descriptions veer quickly into the unreal: marina hears sights, she watches words, her entire internal world is a process of creation. There’s a line “perhaps it was just creative thinking” and that sums up the beauty and allure of marina as well as spelling out her demise. Her creative thought is her weapon and the weapon used against her. There are so many quotes in this that I have to write out just to really allow myself time with the words. The way that love is portrayed and described especially by the chorus of girls blew my mind a bit. Such clever use of form and voice. A book I have read and will re-read.