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FORMAT: Paperback / softback
ISBN: 9780995596689
RRP: £9.99
PAGES: 155
PUBLICATION DATE: August 16, 2021

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Between Tongues

By Paul McQuade

Where does one language end and another begin? What happens to those people who find themselves not simply between languages but in states of transformation and translation? How do we speak, act, and live in these spaces where everything seems at once both promised and impossible?

Paul McQuade’s debut short story collection moves into this space between tongues – a play on the Scottish Gaelic word for translation, eadar-theangachadh. These stories span modern myth and the surreal, Europe, Asia, and North America, and take language and technology to their limit to map those strange places where people without voices find themselves.

Paul McQuade

Paul McQuade is an award-winning writer and translator originally from Glasgow, Scotland. Since leaving Glasgow he has spent time in Edinburgh, Tokyo, New York, and Paris. He is currently somewhere in-between. His work has been shortlisted for The White Review Prize and The Bridport Prize. He was the recipient of the Sceptre Prize for New Writing 2014, the Master’s Review Award 2015, and the Austrian Cultural Forum Writing Prize.

He is the author of Hometown Tales: Glasgow, with Kirsty Logan, part of Weidenfeld & Nicolson’s series championing writing from and about diverse regions across the U.K. His debut story collection, Between Tongues, is forthcoming.

He is represented by Andrew Nurnberg Associates.

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