Lejos de Luisiana

Luz Gabás is a Spanish novelist and translator born in 1968 in Graus, Huesca. She began her career as a translator and academic before publishing her debut novel Palmeras en la nieve (Palm Trees in the Snow, 2012), which became one of the most successful Spanish debut novels of recent decades, selling more than a million copies and being adapted into a major film. Palmeras en la nieve is a multigenerational epic set between the rural Pyrenees of Aragón and the tropical island of Bioko (formerly Fernando Poo) in Equatorial Guinea, spanning the colonial period and the present. Read more →