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An eyewitness account of the fall of the Soviet Union at the 90’s and an intimate personal journey.

In 1992 Olga Merino, a young journalist with a literary vocation, was given her first job as a correspondent. Her destination, Moscow, was not the one she had dreamed of.

Por primera vez se reúne en un solo volumen la narrativa completa de Josep Pla escrita en su versión definitiva entre los años 1949 y 1967. Un libro que dará a conocer su figura como narrador más allá del periodista, el memorialista, el escritor de viajes o el biógrafo en una edición única y cuidada para lectores fieles del autor y para todos aquellos que quieran acercarse a su obra de ficción.

Al fin en un mismo libro la obra y la vida de la persona sobre la que orbitó el mundo cultural español del siglo pasado. Un hombre genial que lo hizo todo en una época en la que no se podía hacer nada.

“Once upon a time there was a prince. Who from being young and charming became an outcast. His name was Juan Carlos, or Juanito to his close friends. In fact, he wasn't exactly a prince, he was the grandson of a king. But a king without a kingdom, forced into exile. His real country, the one over which his Bourbon ancestors had ruled for three centuries, was Spain..." 

Miquel de Palol, uno de los poetas mayores de la lengua catalana, realiza en este libro un ejercicio de lenguaje que nos fascina y envuelve incluso en sus momentos de mayor irracionalidad. En catalán o en castellano (certera y afilada la labor de Isabel Pérez Montalbán y Curro Fortuny, los traductores), cada poema es un acto de deslumbramiento. Un alarde de lenguaje que interroga al mundo. Una muestra del poder revelador de la palabra.

Epitelios tiernísimos (1981) agrupa siete cuentos de tono humorístico y tema erótico, pretendidamente intrascendentes; unos relatos lúdicos, llenos de ironía sobre el placer y el universo de los sentidos. Los diecinueve cuentos de Contra l’amor en companyia i altres relats (1991), en cambio, se articulan alrededor del placer de la escritura o la lectura

Carmen Laforet, her life out of the spotlight

This moving biography of Carmen Laforet, prepared by her son Agustín Cerezales, coincides with the centenary of the birth of one of the most important and also most enigmatic writers of Spanish literature.

An original, hilarious cross between Bartleby, the Scrivener, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Paul Königsberg is the perfect employee: punctual, methodical and obsessive, and so attached to his work that he is incapable of even saying “hello” to the office colleague he has been in love with for years.

Because it would be possible to live differently. 

A heart-warming novel about loyalty and living together.

In a neighbourhood in Madrid, Lena, Hugo, Ramiro, Camelia and Jara have managed to turn the flat they share into a communal living space. They are all in their forties and they live together out of necessity and also because it is part of their way of understanding coexistence and personal relationships.

Since time immemorial an indigenous tribe has lived on the land that is now the legal property of a multinational. And so whom does it belong to? A highly intelligent novel about justice and morality in the globalised world.