What Remains

A deeply personal story that blends fiction, memoir, essay, and archival writing to explore the complexity of migration, the history of forced resettlement, and the weight of the colonial past.

Shifting between the intimate present and the archival past, New York City and the remote mountains of Negueira de Muñiz, Galician writer Brais Lamela’s award-winning debut novel follows a young scholar’s journey into the forgotten history of the Franco regime, uncovering both the past and the still-present afterlife of a forced resettlement project in the Galician countryside of the 1960s.Brais Lamela is a writer in Galician and a PhD candidate at Yale University. What Remains (published in Galician in 2022 as Ninguén Queda) is his first novel. It won the 2022 Spanish National Critics' Award in Fiction and the 2023 RNE Ojo Crítico Prize for the best novel by an author under forty in Spain. Lamela lives in New York City.

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Jacob Rogers is a translator of Galician and Spanish. He has received grants from the National Endowment of the Arts and the PEN/Heim Translation Fund and has coordinated features of Galician-language literature for Asymptote, Words Without Borders, and The Spanish Riveter. He has translated books by Manuel Rivas (shortlisted for the Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award), Berta Dávila, and Xavier Queipo. His translations have been featured in Circumference, Washington Square Review, The Common, Annulet, Poetry Northwest, and Michigan Quarterly Review, among others.