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2024 Ramon Llull Prize for Catalan Literature. Guided by the masterful baton of Ramon Gener, a novel that moves through twentieth-century Europe with the emotional rhythm of a delicate score.

Carved inside a Grotrian-Steinweg piano, serial number 31887, a music lover discovers the names of the instrument's previous owners, which he has just purchased in a store in the Gracia neighbourhood of Barcelona. Determined to find out everything about its history, he embarks on a journey that takes him back a hundred years.

This book collects three stories that completely turn the meaning of tradition on its head. The young female protagonists show great ingenuity and bravery in avoiding the challenges that life throws at them.

The text by José Ovejero and the illustrations by Miguel Robledo take us to a universe full of humor and social criticism on topics like patriarchy, monarchy, and capitalism. A small delight that is enjoyed to the fullest.

How to address the concrete problems of writing fiction?

Drawing from his classes at the City College of New York, at Filba, and in the Master of Creative Writing at UNTREF, Guillermo Martínez developed eleven theses for writing fiction, accompanied by discussions of possible antitheses. The tone retains the liveliness and humour of the oral class format, but in this volume, the arguments are deepened and completed.

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. 

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? 

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.