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Maria Climent
Mai és una paraula molt lletja / Never Is a Very Ugly Word
A memoir as accurate as it is blatant about the odyssey of infertility.
In first person Maria Climent describes the bewildering journey she embarked on from the moment she decided to become a mother.
Javier Cercas
La aventura de escribir novelas / The Adventure of Writing Novels
Conversations with Bruno Arpaia, Sergio del Molino and Félix de Azúa.
Adventure often leads us, much like passion, to explore territories whose mechanisms and mysteries we are not certain we understand. This is even more true when the adventurer ventures—often unwittingly—into the fascinating but slippery terrain of literary creation. So, what does it mean to write novels? What must one know before embarking on the tortuous journey of crafting a narrative text?
Silvia Arazi
El zapatero que remendaba corazones / The shoemaker who mended hearts
Petrus is a grumpy, greedy and cruel cobbler, but he knows how to mend wounded hearts. He doesn't like children, laments or listening to love's sorrows. Until one day Asia, a little girl with big black eyes, enters through his window and becomes his assistant. One winter day, a snowfall alerts him to the girl's absence and he discovers a heart of his own beating inside her.
Lorenzo Silva
La vida es otra cosa / Life is Something Else
The gaze of Lorenzo Silva on the most turbulent two years of our recent history, transforming the world as we knew it.
This book concludes a cycle of literary and journalistic observation by Lorenzo Silva on the history of what we have experienced in the new century. Following 'Where One Falls,' which gathers the writer's perspective on the second decade of the 21st century, this volume focuses on the last two years that have marked the beginning of the third decade (spring 2019 - autumn 2021).
Eduardo Mendoza
Tres enigmas para la organización / Three Enigmas for the Organisation
The funniest Mendoza is back with a story of spies, secret agents and losers. Mick Herron meets P.G. Wodehouse.
In a central street in Barcelona, a chaotic organization of secret agents hides behind the facade of a typical office building, a company of spies as bizarre as they are endearing.
José Ovejero
Vibración / Vibration
A young couple with their daughter settle in a village in the interior of Spain that languishes by a reservoir amidst the remnants of its dreams: a dismantled nuclear power plant, unfinished urbanizations, faded advertisements for a leisure city that never came to be. They intend to rebuild their lives there, but the girl is increasingly drawn to the mysteries hidden by the reservoir, while the father tries to understand a strange vibration that seems to connect the past and the present...
Alicia Giménez Bartlett
La mujer fugitiva / The Woman Who Fled
Petra Delicado faces the toughest dilemma of her life.
Petra Delicado has to cope with earth-shattering events in her personal life, while at work she is trying to figure out who is responsible for the murder of a French cook stabbed to death inside a food truck. A tangle of fake passports and illegal dealings with the Barcelona underworld – with a French connection – that becomes increasingly complicated much to the astonishment of the inspector and her inseparable assistant Fermín Garzón.
Belén Gopegui
Pequeñas heridas mortales / Small Mortal Wounds
An essay that dissects the current world in seven luminous reflections navigating the waters of science and ethics, philosophy and literature.
Small Mortal Wounds unfolds like a torch that illuminates the modern cave and presents us with seven reflections filled with references to science and human behaviour, but always with philosophy and literature as compasses to unveil the meaning of things and life.
Gabriel Ferrater
Papers sobre literatura / Papers on Literature
Gabriel Ferrater was not a literary critic or a historian of literature, but it would be difficult to find someone who had a more significant impact on shaping the canon of modern Catalan literature or who contributed more decisively to enriching the interpretation of poets like Carner, Riba, or Foix.
Santiago Posteguillo
Maldita Roma
The highly anticipated continuation of a saga that began with Roma soy yo, Spain’s best-selling book in 2022, has now arrived.
Julius Caesar is no longer an inexperienced young lawyer but rather a real threat to the power of Rome. However, he is not the only danger.