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El libro de Carmen Laforet. Vista por sí misma

Carmen Laforet
El libro de Carmen Laforet. Vista por sí misma / The Carmen Laforet Book. Seen Through Her Own Eyes

Biography / Memoirs, Destino (September 2021)

Carmen Laforet, her life out of the spotlight

This moving biography of Carmen Laforet, prepared by her son Agustín Cerezales, coincides with the centenary of the birth of one of the most important and also most enigmatic writers of Spanish literature.

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La capacidad de amar del Sr. Königsberg

Juan Jacinto Muñoz-Rengel
La capacidad de amar del Sr. Königsberg / The Capacity for Love of Mr Königsberg

Novel, Alianza Editorial (September 2021)

An original, hilarious cross between Bartleby, the Scrivener, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Paul Königsberg is the perfect employee: punctual, methodical and obsessive, and so attached to his work that he is incapable of even saying “hello” to the office colleague he has been in love with for years.

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El árbol de los sueños

Gustavo Martín Garzo
El árbol de los sueños

Novel, Gutenberg (September 2021)

Una madre les cuenta historias a sus dos hijos cada noche. Son historias que ha ido escuchando a lo largo de sus viajes, ya que a pesar de su juventud ha recorrido gran parte del mundo. Historias donde las cosas soñadas conviven con naturalidad con las reales, hasta el punto de que no es fácil distinguirlas entre sí. En ellas se habla, por ejemplo, de una reina que visita a Salomón para que le ayude a completar un poema cuyo primer verso ha soñado su hermana poco antes de morir, de los eunucos que entretienen a las esposas del faraón en la Casa de la Vida, de héroes griegos ...

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Existiríamos el mar

Belén Gopegui
Existiríamos el mar

Novel, Literatura Random House (September 2021)

Because it would be possible to live differently. 

A heart-warming novel about loyalty and living together.

In a neighbourhood in Madrid, Lena, Hugo, Ramiro, Camelia and Jara have managed to turn the flat they share into a communal living space. They are all in their forties and they live together out of necessity and also because it is part of their way of understanding coexistence and personal relationships.

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Últimes notícies del Chaco

Carles Casajuana
Últimes notícies del Chaco / Latest News of Chaco

Novel, Proa (September 2021)

Since time immemorial an indigenous tribe has lived on the land that is now the legal property of a multinational. And so whom does it belong to? A highly intelligent novel about justice and morality in the globalised world.

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No em busquis

Sara Medina
No em busquis / Don’t Look For Me

Novel, Rosa dels Vents (August 2021)

A fast-paced thriller with many contrasts, about two very different women who are forced to reach an understanding in a search against the clock. 

Silvia, an executive who lives in the highest and wealthiest part of Barcelona, discovers that her son Martí has missed his last session of rehabilitation treatment, which he has been receiving for many months. Then her worst fears are confirmed: Martí has disappeared without trace. The only news she has from him is a message that says: “Don't look for me.”

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Copèrnic

Miquel de Palol
Copèrnic / Copernicus

Novel, Proa (June 2021)

What if the Mr Hyde hiding inside you had his own voice and expressed out loud everything you had repressed during your whole life? 

The peaceful life of Toni Radiguet, a married man with children who have already fled the nest, is turned upside down when a pimple appears on the nape of his neck. 

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A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes

Rodrigo García
A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes

Biography / Memoirs, Harper Via / Literatura Random House (May 2021)

In March 2014, Gabriel García Márquez, one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century, came down with a cold. The woman who had been by his side for more than fifty years, his wife, Mercedes Barcha, was not hopeful; her husband, affectionately known as “Gabo,” was then nearly eighty-seven and battling dementia. “I don’t think we’ll get out of this one,” she told their son Rodrigo. 

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República encantada

José María Ridao
República encantada

Non-fiction, Tusquets (May 2021)

Un imprescindible ensayo sobre las raíces de la intolerancia y sus repercusiones en la política actual.

El autor explora con enorme lucidez diversos aspectos controvertidos de la historiografía española: la negación del pasado musulmán, las consecuencias de la expulsión de judíos y moriscos de nuestro país, la imposición de una ortodoxia religiosa de tintes retrógrados, las dificultades que la tolerancia ha tenido para prosperar en España...

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Dos soledades. Un diálogo sobre la novela en America Latina

Mario Vargas Llosa
Dos soledades. Un diálogo sobre la novela en America Latina

Non-fiction, Alfaguara (April 2021)

“In this book there are more valuable lessons on the novelist’s craft than at any faculty of literature.” Juan Gabriel Vásquez.

In September 1967, the two young authors Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa met up in Lima to discuss Latin American literature. The former had already sold thousands of copies of One Hundred Years of Solitude. The latter had just won the Rómulo Gallegos Award for The Green House. Today they are universally considered two of the greatest exponents of literature in Spanish...

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