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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,...

A powerful story of love and war with the river Ebro as its testimony.

As the 1936 Civil War breaks out, Cinto, a young man from Tortosa who is about to go into a seminary is kidnapped by one of the leaders of FAI-CNT. They casually imprison this archivist priest, who happens to know all there is to about valuable treasure of Pope Luna and the cathedral of Tortosa.

The novel that could have been co-written in perfect agreement by Franz Kafka, David Foster Wallace, Georges Perec and Groucho Marx.

With Boötes, Miquel de Palol culminates an ambitious, absolutely authentic literary project that is unparalleled in European literature. This dazzling novel follows the faltering steps of Artur, a technician hired to carry out repairs on the Archicenotaph on the Island of the Dead.

An essay about self-help brimming with intelligent observation and social sensitivity.

El murmullo questions the basic premises of self-help manuals. These books often promise magical solutions to all our problems, as well as proposing shortcuts to the fulfilment of our desires and our dreams. However, the false promises are not the only problem.

Hotel Chile presents a series of unpublished writings by Luis Sepúlveda alongside photographs of the author taken by Daniel Mordzinski, known as “the photographer of the writers” and Sepúlveda’s friend for more than thirty years. The texts and the images give us a glimpse of the author’s private world – his personal and family relationships, as well as the making of his books and the places that were important in his life and work. A necessary homage that commemorates the mark left by one of the most widely read Latin American writers in the world.

Photos by Daniel Mordzinski.