Wed, Oct 29
|Backstory English Bookshop
Backstory Talks: Anna Pazos
In conversation with Aaron Shulman
Time & Location
Oct 29, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Backstory English Bookshop, Carrer de Mallorca, 330, L'Eixample, 08037 Barcelona, España
About the event
Backstory is delighted to host the launch of Anna Pazos’s debut book Killing the Nerve, a striking work of autofiction and reportage newly translated into English by Laura McGloughlin and Charlotte Coombe, and published by Foundry Editions.
This special evening is an opportunity to meet a contemporary local author, hear about the translation process, and dive into the ideas behind the book. The event will include a conversation between Anna Pazos and writer/journalist Aaron Shulman, followed by a Q&A with the audience.
About Killing the Nerve
In this tour de force of auto-journalism, Anna Pazos explores the end of youth and the beginning of adulthood for the global nomad generation. Readers journey with her from the “Mediterranean mediocrity” of bourgeois Barcelona life, through unstructured Erasmus days in Thessaloniki, first steps in journalism in Jerusalem, a transatlantic crossing with an unsuitable lover, and post-MeToo, pre-pandemic New York.