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Clara Usón
Las fieras / The Beasts
A terrorist with delusions of grandeur. A teenager searching for her place in the world. An astounding generational portrait of the Spain of the 1980s, marked by political violence and dreams of freedom.
Rather than the number of victims Idoia López Riaño murdered in cold blood it was her icy beauty that attracted the attention of the media. Nicknamed the Tigress, she was not only an ETA terrorist but also a celebrity. Her story and her life are reconstructed in this extraordinary novel alongside that of Miren, a teenager who strives to be accepted despite the stigma of her father being a police officer, socially an enemy of the Basque people.
Javier Ruescas
Lo que pasó / What Happened
A moving novel: the story of a homophobic assault.
In What Happened Javier Ruescas fearlessly explores the insidious effects of homophobia within law enforcement, shining a light on the plight of victims and the far-reaching consequences of discrimination. Drawing from personal experience, Ruescas delivers an emotionally charged tale that resonates on multiple levels.
Àfrica Alonso
Una llum tímida / A Timid Light
A beautiful story of impossible love. Two women united forever in the wrong epoch.
At the height of the Franco dictatorship, in a small Valencian town, two teachers, Isabel and Carmen, fall in love and begin a furtive affair, at a time when lesbianism was considered immoral and criminal and therefore almost unthinkable. Isabel is mature and brave, she has cut ties with her family and accepts herself just as she is. Carmen, on the other hand, is fragile and dependent.
Brenda Lozano
Soñar como sueñan los árboles
The lives of Gloria Felipe and Nuria Valencia intertwine around the kidnapping of a little girl that shakes the Mexican capital in the 1940s. Through a narrator who (in her own words) 'doesn't sing rancheras badly,' we witness the Miranda Felipe family's battle to recover their youngest member and the anxious upbringing of the Fernández Valencia family to save their own daughter from a potential danger that the police haven't been able to stop, reported by the media in the tone of a thriller.
Rosario Raro
Prohibida en Normandía / Forbidden in Normandy
Una historia de amor en tiempos de guerra basada en la vida de la corresponsal de guerra más célebre de la historia.
Martha Gellhorn se negó a ser una nota a pie de página en la nutrida biografía de su marido, Ernest Hemingway. No estaba hecha para ser una solícita ama de casa, había cubierto como reportera la Gran Depresión y la guerra civil española, y ahora, en 1944, estaba firmemente comprometida en la lucha contra Hitler.
Carme Riera
Una ombra blanca / A White Shadow
The secrets of a diva. A life of success and fame marked by a childhood trauma.
After losing her voice and surviving a heart attack, the world-famous soprano Barbara Simpson decides to take a break and review some unresolved issues in her life, with the help of her mother's diaries.
Rosa Montero
Cuentos verdaderos / True Tales
Cuentos verdaderos (True Tales) brings together the chronicles and reports that Rosa Montero, one of the most important voices in journalism and literature of recent decades, published in El País during the period 1978-1988. Written mostly with the techniques of the best fiction and with the urgency to tell the news already in the past, they are read today as if they were stories. It is literature breaking through impetuously.
Rafael Cadenas
A Rilke, variaciones / To Rilke, Variations
In this anthology the Venezuelan poet Rafael Cadenas describes the hesitant manner in which he initially approached the work of Rainer Maria Rilke, the absolute protagonist of this book, which is simultaneously a tribute, critical reading, and testimony of an elective – and spiritual – affinity that has endured for decades. Cadenas' writing, always intense and austere, is sharpened even further in the poems that articulate this moving and powerful dialogue with the author of Elegías de Duino, one of the central poets of the 20th century.
Ana María Moix
Poesía completa / Poetry
An unjustly neglected poet, now rescued from obscurity in an expanded and revised edition.
Ana María Moix was the only woman included in the celebrated anthology Nueve novísimos, published in 1970, which signposted a new aesthetic in Spanish poetry and cleared the way for a group of poets who were just embarking on a brilliant career. For some reason Ana María Moix's poetry was sidelined and forgotten by the general public, who better remember her as the great story-teller that she was, as well as for her articles in her press, mostly devoted to literature.
Gabriel García Márquez
En agosto nos vemos / Until August
A treasure: Gabriel García Márquez’s unpublished novel. An irresistible story of fleeting, tangled love that recaptures the coveted pleasure of reading the best Gabo.
Almost ten years after the death of Gabriel García Márquez, the publication of his posthumous novel, En agosto nos vemos, promises to be one of the year’s literary highlights.