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I Won't See You Die
  • Published: 8 December 2026
  • ISBN: 9781635424324
  • Imprint: Other Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $38.00

I Won't See You Die

A Novel

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8 Dec 2026
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17 Nov 2026
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Reunited in old age, two former lovers confront the past and what could have been in this subtle psychological novel that upends expectations—from the acclaimed author of Your Steps on the Stairs.

During their youth, Gabriel Aristu and Adriana Zuber lived a passionate love story that seemed destined to last forever. The future, however, had other plans for them. Separated for fifty years by an ocean of isolation, she trapped in the Spain of the dictatorship, he finding professional success in the United States, they meet again in the twilight of their days.

Looks, caresses, silenced desires, and old reproaches will then give way to the realization that nostalgia for that first love is also nostalgia for the person we once were. I Will Not See You Die is a novel about the power of memory and oblivion, loyalty and betrayal, the ravages of time and the obstinacy of love and its mirages.
  • Published: 8 December 2026
  • ISBN: 9781635424324
  • Imprint: Other Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $38.00
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About the author

Curtis Bauer

Curtis Bauer is a poet and translator of prose and poetry from Spanish. He is the recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant and a Banff International Literary Translation Centre fellowship. His translation of Jeannette Clariond’s Image of Absence won the International Latino Book Award for Best Nonfiction Book Translation from Spanish to English. Bauer teaches creative writing and comparative literature at Texas Tech University.
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Also by Curtis Bauer

Mother Tongue
The Shadow of the Mammoth
Your Steps on the Stairs
The Names of the Things That Were There
Mothers and Dogs
Home Reading Service
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Praise for I Won't See You Die

Praise for Your Steps on the Stairs:

“An anxious, unconventional thriller by Muñoz Molina, a literary superstar in Spain…Reading this book, which has been elegantly translated by Curtis Bauer, feels like hearing a constant alarm ringing in a neighbor’s house. You’ll want to read the ending more than once.” —New York Times Book Review, Best Thrillers of the Month

“In a cool, controlled translation…Your Steps on the Stairs builds to a crescendo of suspense by enveloping the reader in the narrator’s memories, obsessions, and, it becomes increasingly clear, delusions…This novel possesses the eerie melancholy of a work of crime noir, where the nemesis is some truth too intolerable to face with open eyes.” —Wall Street Journal