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A grim underground portrait of today's Cuba, where young people struggle to shake off the vestiges of Castroism.

From Monday to Saturday, Mary is a young and talented artist who moves like a fish in water in the artistic, bohemian and fringe circles of Havana. But on Sundays, Mary becomes the sex toy of a high official of the regime. 

The most lucid, dazzling texts by a writer of international stature, finally collected together in an anthology that makes for compulsive reading.

No callar tackles everything from the hottest defining issues of the current historical moment (populism, post-truth and fake news, storytelling, surveillance capitalism, threats to democracy, new authoritarianisms) to their repercussions in the Spanish world (a review of the Transition and the Civil War, the disorientation of the left, the discredit of the institutions, partocracy, the lack of consensus, etc.), and the local manifestations of all this, such as Catalan secessionism.

Un bárbaro en París is an exclusive compilation of texts dedicated to French culture, not only as reflected by its great writers, but also by intellectuals such as Sartre, Camus, Aron and Revel. It brings to light Mario Vargas Llosa’s love of French literature, further confirmed by his recent election to the Académie Française. In fact, Vargas Llosa is the first member not to have written a work in French and the book includes his previously unpublished induction speech.

Memories from beyond the grave of a very much alive intellectual.

In 2015 Iván de la Nuez was astonished to discover that a Havana funeral parlour had issued his death certificate because of a bureaucratic error. In this new role of being officially certified as dead, Iván de la Nuez reviews his main intellectual concerns: current political affairs, Cuba, the confrontation between communism and capitalism, and the artistic avant-garde.

The story of a special person, a woman who grows up in the silence of the Franco regime and opens herself up to the world in a mountain village where the wounds of the past still fester.

September 1962. A young teacher who is unsure of her vocation and struggles to communicate takes up her first post in a school in the Pyrenees. There, she fulfils her ambitions: to have a job and live in a village in a house from where she can watch the snow fall.

First love is never forgotten.

Aged just 18 years old, Andrés Aja feels lost and confused, and he is secretly in love with one of his friends, Brígida. They live in a small town surrounded by old walls, which seems stuck in time despite the fact that it is 1976 and the whole country is undergoing a miraculous transformation.

El psicoanálisis puede ser un infierno. Daniel Bastida quiere ser analista, y va camino de serlo, pero su vocación se tambalea, sacude, y de la sacudida salen dos novelas. 

A tough and moving exploration of the pain of loss, with a bright, optimistic ending.

On 21 November 1973, an American plane is flying over Iceland on a routine mission when suddenly the engines begin to fail in the midst of a tremendous snowstorm. Thanks to the skill of a young pilot named Gregory Fletcher, the plane avoids the ice fields and manages to make a forced landing on a beach of black sand, saving the entire crew.

Fifty years later, in Barcelona,...

Una gran historia de amor y guerra con el río Ebro de testimonio 

Al estallar la guerra civil de 1936, Cinto, un joven de Tortosa a punto de entrar en el seminario, es captado por un cabecilla de la FAI-CNT. Casualmente encarcelan al cura archivero, que tiene toda la información sobre el valioso tesoro del papa Luna y la catedral de Tortosa.