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El país de las mil caras

Mario Vargas Llosa
El país de las mil caras / The Country of a Thousand Faces

Journalistic Work, Alfaguara (June 2024)

Mario Vargas Llosa's perspective, Nobel Prize in Literature, on Peruvian history, politics, culture, and society.

Mario Vargas Llosa's journalistic work is marked by essential texts on the culture, politics, history, and social reality of Peru. Reading this volume reveals the deep connection the Nobel Prize-winning author has with his country.

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Mirlo

Guillermo Saccomanno
Mirlo / Blackbird

Novel, Seix Barral (June 2024)

A tale of friendship with a lyrical and exquisitely beautiful tone.

There comes a moment in life when a man looks back, reminisces, and reflects in a sort of recapitulation. His tone is not melancholic, but rather one of intimate appreciation for what has been lived. He seeks to recognize what has been happy and crucial. In the recounting of experiences and years, his friends have been a constant presence. This book is dedicated to them.

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Iconofagias

Iván de la Nuez
Iconofagias / Iconophagies

Non-fiction, Debate (May 2024)

A fundamental dictionary against the noise and indigestion caused by the iconographic avalanche of contemporary culture.

 

With phone cameras having become human appendages, we generate far more images than we can consume—images that subjugate us and sometimes compel us to rebel. Images that consume us, and that occasionally need to be consumed themselves. Images that, under the vast carpet of millions of reproductions, almost always conceal the imaginaries of this era. 

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La Innombrable (con Noemí Trujillo)

Lorenzo Silva
La Innombrable (con Noemí Trujillo) / The Unnamable (with Noemí Trujillo)

Novel, Destino (May 2024)

The new case in the successful series featuring inspector Manuela Mauri. With over 100,000 readers, this combative and literary crime novel explores the links between prostitution and gender violence while also focusing on the personal and intimate side of an inspector who must take better care of her small family if she doesn't want to risk losing them.

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Las fieras

Clara Usón
Las fieras / The Beasts

Novel, Seix Barral (May 2024)

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.

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Cuadernos de Malakoff

José María Ridao
Cuadernos de Malakoff / Notebooks from Malakoff

Non-fiction, Galaxia Gutenberg (May 2024)

The aphorisms included in these Notebooks, written in Paris and distilled during the years José María Ridao has spent in New Delhi, unfold a world-view marked by irony, halfway between rational evidence that contradicts beliefs forged by tradition and an almost poetic intuition that reveals new and surprising dimensions of reality.

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Cuando llegue la mañana

Juan Madrid
Cuando llegue la mañana / When Morning Comes

Novel, Alianza (May 2024)

The dark shadow of corruption looms over the streets of Madrid and the hallways of a prestigious private maternity clinic. When a young drug-addicted mother commits suicide after giving birth and there is no trace of the newborn, Toni Romano delves into a tangled labyrinth of intrigue and deceit. Thus begins a frenetic race against time as he strives to find the whereabouts of the infant before it's too late.

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Lo que pasó

Javier Ruescas
Lo que pasó / What Happened

Books for children and young readers, Crossbooks (May 2024)

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.

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Filo & Sofia 5: Siete misterios y medio

Cuca Canals
Filo & Sofia 5: Siete misterios y medio / Seven Mysteries and a Half

Books for children and young readers, Edebé (May 2024)

The orphans who are part of the Academy, led by the young Sofía Hipatia, use a revolutionary way of thinking, based on philosophy, to find new clues that will help catch the most wanted criminal. The disappearance of several elderly people leads the members of the Academy to suspect that the cases are connected.

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Una llum tímida

Àfrica Alonso
Una llum tímida / A Timid Light

Novel, Empúries (May 2024)

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.

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