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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.

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. 

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.

Based on the collection of letters provided by the Canadian poet, critic, and translator Richard Sanger, we have compiled a book that marks a milestone in the study of 20th-century Spanish poetry: the epistolary relationship between poet Jaime Gil de Biedma and a young Anglo-Saxon poet who appears to grasp the essence of his poetry.

Mario Vargas Llosa's perspective, Nobel Prize in Literature, on Peruvian history, politics, culture, and society.

Mario Vargas Llosa's journalistic work is marked by essential texts on the culture, politics, history, and social reality of Peru. Reading this volume reveals the deep connection the Nobel Prize-winning author has with his country.

A fundamental dictionary against the noise and indigestion caused by the iconographic avalanche of contemporary culture.

With phone cameras having become human appendages, we generate far more images than we can consume—images that subjugate us and sometimes compel us to rebel. Images that consume us, and that occasionally need to be consumed themselves. Images that, under the vast carpet of millions of reproductions, almost always conceal the imaginaries of this era. 

A terrorist with delusions of grandeur. A teenager searching for her place in the world. An astounding generational portrait of the Spain of the 1980s, marked by political violence and dreams of freedom.

Rather than the number of victims Idoia López Riaño murdered in cold blood it was her icy beauty that attracted the attention of the media. Nicknamed the Tigress, she was not only an ETA terrorist but also a celebrity. Her story and her life are reconstructed in this extraordinary novel alongside that of Miren, a teenager who strives to be accepted despite the stigma of her father being a police officer, socially an enemy of the Basque people.

The aphorisms included in these Notebooks, written in Paris and distilled during the years José María Ridao has spent in New Delhi, unfold a world-view marked by irony, halfway between rational evidence that contradicts beliefs forged by tradition and an almost poetic intuition that reveals new and surprising dimensions of reality.