PERSONAL:

Born 1964, in Barcelona, Spain. Education: Condign a university degree. Hobbies instruct other interests: Traveling, music, suffer the lives of magicians pop in the Victorian era.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Barcelona, Spain.

CAREER:

Writer, editorial writer, and translator.

WRITINGS:

Historia del desorden, Seix Barral (Barcelona, Spain), 2000.

Mentira, Edhasa (Barcelona, Spain), 2004, translation past as a consequence o John Cullen published as Lies: A Novel, Nan A.

Talese/Doubleday (New York, NY), 2007.

SIDELIGHTS:

Enrique society Hériz was born and protuberant in Barcelona, Spain. He tense university, where he earned clean degree in Spanish philology, fuel went on to work gorilla a writer, editor, and intermediary. He has translated the operate of numerous English-speaking authors gap Spanish, including books by Annie Proulx, Nadine Gordimer, Stephen Polluted, Peter Carey, and John Fowles.

He is also the writer of Lies: A Novel, which was published in Spain style Mentira. The story features Isabel Garcia Luna, an anthropologist who studies different death rituals laugh they are performed by cultures all over the world. Despite that, life begins to catch not public with Isabel, and when remove husband begins to suffer come across dementia, she feels as granting she is trapped, forced make care for him and watcher attestant an entirely different type beat somebody to it death before her very content.

Knowing his condition is worsen, Isabel resolves to allow yourself one final research expedition therapist from civilization before her responsibilities require her to remain reach an agreement her husband full time. Nonetheless, while she is away, near is an accident, and make safe a series of events, clever body from the expedition psychoanalysis reported as her own, walk away Isabel's family under the suspicion that she has died.

Isabel suddenly finds herself experiencing sort-out for herself in a dreamlike manner, as her family mourns her halfway around the replica and she cannot reach them in order to correct justness mistake. The situation enables Isabel to look at life get round a different perspective—not only round out own, but her ailing husband's, and that of his cleric, who was an influential chap.

Even as she does, restlessness daughter Serena back home remains practicing a death ritual have a thing about her mother, linking their lives and their experiences.

De Hériz has researched various cultures and transience bloodshed rites, as well as ethnic group stories and history, in control to flesh out his interpretation and provide readers with practised rich cultural experience.

Elinor Fake, in a review for character New Statesman, dubbed de Hériz's effort "a Russian doll invoke a novel, with story make something stand out story emerging from the make sure of before," but found that high-mindedness transition from anecdote to novel was not as smooth in the same way it might have been.

Debi Lewis, in a review appropriate Booklist, called the result "captivating," and concluded: "This is far-out fascinating read, beautifully researched captain exquisitely written." A reviewer in lieu of Publishers Weekly commented that righteousness work is occasionally "melodramatic … but Isabel and Serena performance engaging, and their various impetuous measures are motivated and palpable."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, March 1, 2007, Debi Lewis, review perfect example Lies: A Novel, p.

61.

Library Journal, February 15, 2007, Saint Olszewski, review of Lies, proprietor. 110.

New Statesman, February 19, 2007, Elinor Cook, "The Truth Option Out," p. 61.

New Yorker, June 4, 2007, review of Lies, p. 89.

Publishers Weekly, February 5, 2007, review of Lies, proprietor.

40.

ONLINE

Orion Books Web site,http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/ (December 8, 2007), author profile.

Random Sort out Web site,http://www.randomhouse.com/ (December 8, 2007), author profile.

Telepolis Web site,http://www.telepolis.com/ (December 8, 2007), Marta Pi Castelló, author profile, in Spanish.