Irene Solà is a writer and visual artist. She is the author of the novels The Dams, When I Sing, Mountains Dance, and I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness, and Beast, a poetry collection.

Mara Faye Lethem is an award-winning translator and author of the novel A Person's A Person, No Matter How Small. Her recent translations include books by Patricio Pron, Max Besora, Javier Calvo, Marta Orriols, Toni Sala, and Alicia Kopf.

"In the spirit of Ágota Kristóf and Juan Rulfo, I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness is forged from the deepest and truest stories about the perversity of the body, the sheer drama of the natural world, and the vengeful side of the divine. A fecund and daring book."--Catherine Lacey, author of Biography of X

"This novel about, well, everything, is fine-tuned to a kind of astonished and astonishing connectivity that's an act of revolutionary revitalization."--Ali Smith, The Guardian

"I wish I could live forever inside its pages. A book that feels like a channel, a vessiel, almost beyond the category of literature."--K-Ming Chang, The Millions

"In the shocking, seductive novel I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness, the devil is no match for the wits and wiles of ferocious women."--Michelle Anne Schingler, Foreword Magazine (starred review)

"An author's note at the end lists a deep collection of sources that range from a memoir of the Spanish Civil war to cookbooks encompassing all kinds of Catalan stews. Many of the sources deal with medieval feminine knowledge and Catalan folklore, including the tale of a woman outsmarting the devil that the premise of I Gave You Eyes is based on. The research doesn't feel like a history lesson though. Instead, Solà bridges these old legends to the present with her unforgettable family of characters, of whom at least one is based on a real historical figure from her home town of Malla."--Joe Stanek, Chicago Review of Books

"Irene Solà's exhilarating novel mixes folklore, history and the supernatural in a heady brew. . . . Solà's imagery is unexpected and uninhibited, matched by Mara Faye Lethem's unerring translation. "--Catherine Taylor, The Financial Times

"Solà first distinguished herself with the equally enchanting When I Sing Mountains Dance, and her fascination with folklore returns to create another novel as beautiful as it is wicked and often filthy."--Billie Walker, Big Issue

"Solà's imagery is beyond arresting - it burns itself into your retina as you read. . . ."--Alistair Braidwood, The Skinny