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Javier Cercas
El loco de Dios en el fin del mundo / The Madman of God at the End of the World
A nonfiction novel, sprinkled with irony and genuine curiosity, about the controversial figure of Pope Francis and the questioned role of the Church in the 21st century.
In May 2023, Javier Cercas was signing books at the Salone del Libro in Turin when a Vatican representative appeared with an unusual proposition: they had thought of him—precisely him, an atheist writer, anticlerical, a dangerous intellectual—to accompany Pope Francis on a trip to Mongolia and freely write a book about that adventure.
Belén Gopegui
Te siguen / They Follow You
They want to probe everything about you, except to know who you are.
León is a spy who has nothing to do with James Bond movies. He works for one of those big companies dedicated to surveillance and data control that knows everything about you. However, even today, some people escape that control and leave no digital trace. Such is the case of Jonás, a shopkeeper who loves chatting with his customers, and Casilda, an activist in a clandestine anti-system group.
Albert Sánchez Piñol
Las tinieblas del corazón
El extraordinario encuentro de los exploradores europeos con los pigmeos como nunca antes se ha contado.
Las tinieblas del corazón narra este encuentro con unas criaturas de las cuales solo sabemos que no sabemos nada. Y solo desvelaremos un aspecto sorprendente: los personajes reales de este libro —el extravagante y seductor Paul Du Chaillu, el rígido botánico alemán Georg Schweinfurth, el injustamente olvidado etnógrafo Paul Schebesta, la pintora Anne Eisner y su marido Patrick Putnam, el antropólogo Colin Turnbull y el propio Albert Sánchez Piñol— fueron a buscar en los «pigmeos» algo importantísimo para ellos, y todos encontraron lo que buscaban. Sin embargo, oh, paradoja fatal, ¡lo que encontraron no existe!
Rosa Montero
Animales difíciles / Difficult Animals
The spectacular and highly anticipated conclusion to the Bruna Husky series.
In Madrid in 2111, detective Bruna Husky is hired to investigate a terrorist attack at the facilities of Eternal, a major tech company. The first clues lead her to a journalist tracking one of the assailants, but when those involved start disappearing or dying, the trail goes cold.
Cristina Pacheco
Mar de historias / Sea of Stories
Mar de historias is an anthology of some of the best stories Cristina Pacheco published over more than thirty years in La Jornada.
Dramatic, moving, and not without a sense of humor. Life is an avalanche of anecdotes, and the everyday is the stage for the extraordinary. A grandmother kidnapped by her granddaughter, a wife who keeps a diary to speak to her absent husband, a disabled gardener who doesn’t know how he will enter paradise without a leg, a man accused of infidelity because of an earthquake, a child who sees foam from waves in the saltpeter, or elderly women who hire an exotic dancer.
Josep Pla
Gaudí, Maillol, Dalí
Three portraits of eminent personalities through the sharp and keen wit of Josep Pla
In the essays that make up this volume, Josep Pla provides a unique and personal perspective on artistic creation and how it is conceived and expressed by three iconic Catalan figures. He examines the intimate fusion of nature and sculpture in Maillol, the impact of the Alto Ampurdán landscape and the mirage of closeness in Dalí, and Gaudí’s unique approach to architecture.
Teresa Muñoz
Bereshit
Ramon Muntaner Prize for Young Adult Fiction 2024
The life of Greta, a 16-year-old girl, was shaken up when her sister died in a car accident. Now, strange visions lead her to believe that nothing is as it seems. With Dalia’s help, a herbalist who lives by the woods, and a friend for whom she sees as more than a friend, she will try to break an old witch’s curse which threatens her life.
Jesús del Campo
Aguafuertes
En Aguafuertes, Jesús del Campo pinta una colorida estampa del Barroco, un tiempo en que el aire olía a pólvora y los mares a especias. Cada una de estas viñetas—trazadas con la finura del historiador—nos trasladan al Barroco, una época cuyos afanes y violencias no fueron obstáculo para el erotismo y el amor.
José Donoso
Correspondencia (con Carlos Fuentes)
Este libro reúne por primera vez la inédita correspondencia entre dos de los más grandes novelistas latinoamericanos, el chileno José Donoso y el mexicano Carlos Fuentes. Una conversación de dos grandes amigos, y que se extendió décadas cubriendo uno de los periodos más efervescentes de la historia y la literatura de nuestro continente.
Carlos Fuentes
Correspondencia (con José Donoso) / Correspondence (with José Donoso)
Este libro reúne por primera vez la inédita correspondencia entre dos de los más grandes novelistas latinoamericanos, el chileno José Donoso y el mexicano Carlos Fuentes. Una conversación de dos grandes amigos, y que se extendió décadas cubriendo uno de los periodos más efervescentes de la historia y la literatura de nuestro continente.