Sergio del Molino - Skin

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2 Dedication Dedication To Cris, more than ever

3 Title Page Skin Sergio del Molino Translated from Spanish by Thomas Bunstead polity

4 Copyright Original Spanish edition © Sergio del Molino, 2020. Published by special arrangement with The Ella Sher Literary Agency First published in Spanish as La Piel by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S. A. U. This English edition © Polity Press, 2022 Excerpt from LETTERS TO VÉRA by Vladimir Nabokov, edited and translated by Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd, compilation copyright © 2014 by The Estate of Vladimir Nabokov. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Support for the translation of this book was provided by Acción Cultural Española, AC/E Polity Press 65 Bridge Street Cambridge CB2 1UR, UK Polity Press 101 Station Landing Suite 300 Medford, MA 02155, USA All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4787-6 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Control Number: 2021938631 The publisher has used its best endeavours to ensure that the URLs for external websites referred to in this book are correct and active at the time of going to press. However, the publisher has no responsibility for the websites and can make no guarantee that a site will remain live or that the content is or will remain appropriate. Every effort has been made to trace all copyright holders, but if any have been overlooked the publisher will be pleased to include any necessary credits in any subsequent reprint or edition. For further information on Polity, visit our website: politybooks.com

5 Epigraph ‘Everything would be fine, if it weren’t for the damned skin.’ Vladimir Nabokov

6 Witches Don’t Egg-siss

7 The Devil Card

8 A Swimming Pool in Sochi

9 The Magic Mountain

10 The Prettiest Girl in Sandy Ground

11 A Very Brief History of Racism

12 The Middle Ages of The Skin

13 When the Working Day is Done

14 Conversations With a Stone King

15 The Boss’s Comb

16 My Greek

17 Impure

18 Butterfly in Basque

19 The Habit

20 Gratitudes and Debts

21 End User License Agreement

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2 Table of Contents

3 Dedication Dedication To Cris, more than ever

4 Title Page Skin Sergio del Molino Translated from Spanish by Thomas Bunstead polity

5 Copyright Original Spanish edition © Sergio del Molino, 2020. Published by special arrangement with The Ella Sher Literary Agency First published in Spanish as La Piel by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S. A. U. This English edition © Polity Press, 2022 Excerpt from LETTERS TO VÉRA by Vladimir Nabokov, edited and translated by Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd, compilation copyright © 2014 by The Estate of Vladimir Nabokov. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Support for the translation of this book was provided by Acción Cultural Española, AC/E Polity Press 65 Bridge Street Cambridge CB2 1UR, UK Polity Press 101 Station Landing Suite 300 Medford, MA 02155, USA All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4787-6 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Control Number: 2021938631 The publisher has used its best endeavours to ensure that the URLs for external websites referred to in this book are correct and active at the time of going to press. However, the publisher has no responsibility for the websites and can make no guarantee that a site will remain live or that the content is or will remain appropriate. Every effort has been made to trace all copyright holders, but if any have been overlooked the publisher will be pleased to include any necessary credits in any subsequent reprint or edition. For further information on Polity, visit our website: politybooks.com

6 Epigraph ‘Everything would be fine, if it weren’t for the damned skin.’ Vladimir Nabokov

7 Begin Reading

8 End User License Agreement

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