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La costurera de Chanel

Wendy Guerra
La costurera de Chanel / Chanel's Seamstress

Novel, Lumen (February 2025)

A novel that explores the fascinating figure of Coco Chanel with all her lights and shadows.

 When her parents die, Simone takes charge of the family tailoring business in a small provincial French town and soon makes a name for herself thanks to her talent with the needle and thread and the ground-breaking originality of her designs. One day, a small, energetic woman who runs a hat shop in Paris walks into her humble seamstress’s workshop. Her name is Gabrielle Chanel and she is full of ground-breaking ideas. She asks Simone to become her business partner.

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El reverso de la utopía

Mario Vargas Llosa
El reverso de la utopía / The Reverse of Utopia

Journalistic Work, Alfaguara (February 2025)

"That, understood in extreme terms, freedom and equality are allergic options to each other cannot mean that we are condemned to injustice. Rather, more simply, it means that we must renounce utopias, extreme options."

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Nem Todas as Árvores Morrem de Pé

Luísa Sobral
Nem Todas as Árvores Morrem de Pé

Novel, Dom Quixote (February 2025)

A sweeping debut novel that intertwines the lives of two women across a divided Germany, revealing the hidden costs of love, history, and the walls—both real and invisible— that shape us.

Spanning the darkest decades of twentieth-century Germany, Not All Trees Die Standing is a tale of love, loss, and survival on both sides of the Berlin Wall.

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Animales difíciles

Rosa Montero
Animales difíciles / Difficult Animals

Novel, Seix Barral (January 2025)

A dystopian world menaced by ideological polarization and the unlimited power of AI. 

Detective Bruna Husky is winning her battle against time. She has managed to squeeze out every last second of the ten years of life allocated to tecno-humans and start again with her counter at zero. However, the price she has paid is high. She has exchanged the threatening athletic physique that enabled her to knock down any enemy with one punch for the weak and fragile little body of an insignificant calculation tecno-human.

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Cowboys en el infierno

Antonio Pampliega
Cowboys en el infierno / Hellbound Cowboys

Novel, Diéresis Editorial (December 2024)

Lucas Corso and El Guaje, two Spanish war correspondents, find themselves in Aleppo (Syria) covering the bloody battle for the city in 2012. 

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Mar de historias

Cristina Pacheco
Mar de historias / Sea of Stories

Short stories and novellas, Tusquets (November 2024)

Mar de historias is an anthology of some of the best stories Cristina Pacheco published over more than thirty years in La Jornada.

Dramatic, moving, and not without a sense of humor. Life is an avalanche of anecdotes, and the everyday is the stage for the extraordinary. A grandmother kidnapped by her granddaughter, a wife who keeps a diary to speak to her absent husband, a disabled gardener who doesn’t know how he will enter paradise without a leg, a man accused of infidelity because of an earthquake, a child who sees foam from waves in the saltpeter, or elderly women who hire an exotic dancer.

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Gaudí, Maillol, Dalí

Josep Pla
Gaudí, Maillol, Dalí

Non-fiction, Destino (October 2024)

Three portraits of eminent personalities through the sharp and keen wit of Josep Pla

In the essays that make up this volume, Josep Pla provides a unique and personal perspective on artistic creation and how it is conceived and expressed by three iconic Catalan figures. He examines the intimate fusion of nature and sculpture in Maillol, the impact of the Alto Ampurdán landscape and the mirage of closeness in Dalí, and Gaudí’s unique approach to architecture.

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Bereshit

Teresa Muñoz
Bereshit

Books for children and young readers, Fanbooks (Edicions 62) (September 2024)

Ramon Muntaner Prize for Young Adult Fiction 2024

The life of Greta, a 16-year-old girl, was shaken up when her sister died in a car accident. Now, strange visions lead her to believe that nothing is as it seems. With Dalia’s help, a herbalist who lives by the woods, and a friend for whom she sees as more than a friend, she will try to break an old witch’s curse which threatens her life.

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Aguafuertes

Jesús del Campo
Aguafuertes

Non-fiction, Acantilado (September 2024)

In Aguafuertes, Jesús del Campo paints a vivid portrait of the Baroque era, a time when the air smelled of gunpowder and the seas of spices

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Correspondencia (con Carlos Fuentes)

José Donoso
Correspondencia (con Carlos Fuentes)

Letters, Alfaguara (September 2024)

Este libro reúne por primera vez la inédita correspondencia entre dos de los más grandes novelistas latinoamericanos, el chileno José Donoso y el mexicano Carlos Fuentes. Una conversación de dos grandes amigos, y que se extendió décadas cubriendo uno de los periodos más efervescentes de la historia y la literatura de nuestro continente. 

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