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Never Tell Anyone Your Name by Federico Ivanier

Title: Never Tell Anyone Your Name

Author: Federico Ivanier

Translator: Claire Storey

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Publisher: HopeRoad Publishing

Date Published: 2023

Format: Paperback

Genre: Horror

Book Category: Fiction

Age Range: 14+

Original Title: First translated from Spanish as Nunca digas tu nombre, Criatura Editora, Uruguay, 2020

Country of Origin: Uruguay

Never Tell Anyone Your Name

by Federico Ivanier
Age Range: 14+

A 16-year-old boy travelling between France and Spain, finds himself marooned on the Spanish border, in the unfamiliar Spanish town of Irún due to a mix-up over his train ticket. Lost and hungry, with snow falling and darkness creeping in, his next train to Madrid is not until midnight. With eight hours to kill and his favourite rock band blasting in his ears, the boy with no name walks and walks exploring the shuttered town, while thinking of Lucrecia, his first love and how heartbroken he was when she told him it was over.

Chancing on a dark-eyed Spanish girl who befriends him, the boy finds himself instantly attracted to her, and despite not knowing anything about her or what her intentions are, they spend the evening walking and talking as night falls. When she suggests they go to a remote part of the town he is happy to follow her. As midnight approaches, the boy must leave and return to the station to board his train. But as dark forces gather, his hours in Irún come to a truly shocking end.

Never Tell Anyone Your Name by acclaimed writer Federico Ivanier is a worldwide first Young Adult novel from Uruguay to ever be published in English. Ivanier’s hauntingly crafted novella with its clever twists and turns reveals a dark story which is hinted at from the beginning and again later on with an overt reference to the boy’s favourite classic novel. The lyrical text, excellently translated by Claire Storey, builds the atmosphere and increases tension chapter by chapter with the boy’s eerie walk through a deserted town with his mysterious unknown companion. The reader is aware that something is about to happen but not prepared for what it is.

This is not a novel for the faint-hearted with its rather macabre climax, however, it is more than just a book defined in the horror genre; there are so many complex emotions mixing everyday normality and the power of love with something much darker and sinister.

As the author says “ My story is ultimately about how horror is hidden in everyday life, even in the shape of love – and love as a type of hunger. It’s about identity, how we all constantly mask who we are and come across each other by strange coincidences, and how that can have an everlasting effect on our lives.”

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