this book is incredible

Tarantula (2024) by Eduardo Halfon, translated by Daniel Hahn 🕷️ I pulled this off the shelves at Burley Fisher last week on a whim (or not a total whim &ndash; I&rsquo;ve been picking books based on their size, and then when I saw it had won the Spanish-language Critic&rsquo;s Prize, and best foreign novel in a French prize, and it had something to do with Guatemala, a place I know nothing…