Outlaws (46 page)

Translator's Note

I would like to thank Nika Blazer, Jim Smith and Ben Ward for their helpful suggestions and discussions.

A Note on the Author

Javier Cercas was born in 1962. He is a novelist, short-story writer and columnist, whose books include
Soldiers of Salamis
(which sold more than a million copies worldwide, won six literary awards in Spain and was filmed by David Trueba),
The Tenant
and
The Motive
,
The Speed of Light
and
The Anatomy of a Moment
, which won Spain’s National Narrative Prize. He taught at the University of Illinois in the late 1980s and for many years was a lecturer in Spanish literature at the University of Gerona. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages. In 2011 he was awarded the International Prize of the Turin Book Fair for his oeuvre. He lives in Barcelona.

A Note on the Translator

Anne McLean has translated Latin-American and Spanish novels, short stories, memoirs and other writings by authors including Héctor Abad, Carmen Martín Gaite, Julio Cortázar, Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, Enrique Vila-Matas, Tomás Eloy Martínez and Juan Gabriel Vásquez. She has twice won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize: for
Soldiers of Salamis
by Javier Cercas in 2004 (which also won her the Valle Inclán Award), and for
The Armies
by Evelio Rosero in 2009. She was awarded the Spanish Cross of the Order of Civil Merit as recognition of her contribution to making Spanish literature known to a wider public. She lives in Toronto.

By the Same Author

Soldiers of Salamis

The Tenant
and
The Motive

The Speed of Light

The Anatomy of a Moment

Copyright © 2012 by Javier Cercas
English translation copyright © 2014 by Anne McLean
 

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Originally published in Spain in 2014 by Random House Mondadori, S.A., as
Las leyes de la frontera

First U.S. Edition published in 2014 by Bloomsbury USA
This electronic edition published in August 2014

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