Eight Trains | Alberto Olmos | Granta Magazine

Eight Trains

Alberto Olmos

Translated by Thomas Bunstead

‘To go is always to go somewhere; returning, you return to nowhere. That’s the way it is.’

Alberto Olmos

Olmos, born in Segovia, made his literary debut in 1998 with A bordo del naufragio, a finalist for the Herralde Prize. Since then he has published the novels Asi de loco te puedes volver (1999), Trenes hacia Tokio (2006), El talento de los demás (2007), Tatami (2008) and El estatus (2009). He is also responsible for the volume Algunas ideas buenisimas que el mundo se va a perder (2009), compiled with texts from the Internet. For three years he lived in Japan, in the Tochigi Prefecture, where he taught Spanish and English. His blog is www.hkkmr.blogspot.com. He lives in Madrid.

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Translated by Thomas Bunstead

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