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All his poems, peoms and meops in one volume. 

Although it is Julio Cortázar’s stories and novels that have made him a classic, poetry was his primary interest as a writer. His first book was the collection of poems Presencia, published in 1938 under a pseudonym. And the last one before he died in 1984, Salvo el crespúsculo, was also poetry.

Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, winner of the O. Henry Award in a selection by Lauren Groff, confirms with this new volume his enormous talent for the precious art of the short story.

"Venecos” is a disparaging way of referring to Venezuelan emigrants, the protagonists of these magnificent stories set in different cities around the world, such as Los Angeles, Paris and Málaga, and also those who lack the means to leave Venezuela, a country in a state of moral and economic collapse.

With the trademark humor of her novels, Teresa Solana offers once again a portrait of a contradictory and vibrant Barcelona, where women, feminist politics, and new sensibilities take center stage in the plot.

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.

"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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

En Aguafuertes, Jesús del Campo pinta una colorida estampa del Barroco, un tiempo en que el aire olía a pólvora y los mares a especias. Cada una de estas viñetas—trazadas con la finura del historiador—nos trasladan al Barroco, una época cuyos afanes y violencias no fueron obstáculo para el erotismo y el amor.