Girona, España, 1974
Imma Turbau holds a degree in Journalism from the University of Navarra. She has been dedicated to storytelling for more than 40 years, and has applied it to contents and brand marketing for 25. She has held several cultural management posts in Spain and Portugal, and between 2009 and 2012 was the director general of the Casa de América in Madrid, the city where she lives. She has written many short stories, which have been published in anthologies in Spain, Mexico, France, Germany and Portugal. Her first novel, El juego del ahorcado, was translated into several languages, and in 2008 was made into a film, which was directed by Manuel Gómez Pereira.
- "This is a novel that, in its brevity, manages not to let anything fall by the wayside, but to use the right words to drive it and inject the precisely correct doses of intrigue, emotion and literary spirit." Antonio G. Iturbe, Qué Leer (referring to El juego del ahorcado)
- "Imma Turbau leaves me what I always look for in any work of fiction: vigour and sensitivity - the unavoidable bases of the internal violence that all novels of this absolutely must have." Gabriel Ruiz Ortega, La fortaleza de la soledad Blog (referring to El juego del ahorcado)
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A story of love and atonement on the Costa Brava.
While walking through the woods, Carlos falls fatefully off a cliff. Badly wounded, he heads for the first house he finds. Carla, the owner, calmly takes him in and dresses his wounds. When he awakes, many hours have passed.
Successful, world-travelling architect Carlos is amazed by Carla as he gets to know her. She’s a painter who owns no phone, television or watch. The conversation between them flows naturally, and after two days they realise they’ve fallen in love. Disconcerted, Carlos decides to return to the hotel where he’s staying, taking with him a book titled The Face of Time.
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A story of love and atonement on the Costa Brava.
While walking through the woods, Carlos falls fatefully off a cliff. Badly wounded, he heads for the first house he finds. Carla, the owner, calmly takes him in and dresses his wounds. When he awakes, many hours have passed. Successful, world-travelling architect Carlos is amazed by Carla as he gets to know her. She’s a painter who owns no phone, television or watch. The conversation between them flows naturally, and after two days they realise they’ve fallen in love. Disconcerted, Carlos decides to return to the hotel where he’s staying, taking with him a book titled The Face of Time. To his surprise, it accurately reproduces what’s just happened between him and Carla. Later, when they’re already living together, Carlos chances upon a door leading to a secret attic. There he finds objects belonging to Carla’s great-grandfather that will reveal details of her family saga and leave their lives forever entwined.
When David committed suicide, he and Sandra had not seen each other for years. But both knew that they were still bound by a dark secret, by something that happened one summer afternoon when the two were a couple of rebellious teenagers in love. Something tragic and irremediable that would mark their lives forever. With a direct and enveloping prose, and protagonists with an unforgettable strength and boldness, El juego del ahorcado brings us closer to a stormy start of a relationship in Spain during the 80s. This is the story of a love as wild as only adolescence can be, but also of suspense; a psychological drama and a bittersweet portrait of young people of all generations, who keep secrets, grow up behind adult’s back, and still keep the cruelty and innocence of children. An amazing novel where readers will get trapped in the threads of an immersive plot full of gray areas.
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Este es un libro indicado para estudiantes de gestión cultural, para técnicos de gestión cultural en instituciones públicas o privadas, para publicitarios, para promotores que organizan eventos, para responsables de márketing, patrocinio y comunicación, y para profesionales interesados en los mercados culturales tanto tradicionales como electrónicos. Sin adentrarse en teorías abstractas (a menudo difíciles de convertir en realidad), la autora nos propone pensar, programar, producir, comunicar y financiar eventos culturales a partir de un caso práctico. ¿Por dónde empiezo? es un libro dirigido a todas las personas que están interesadas en los eventos culturales.