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They want to find out everything about you except who you are. 

León is a spy whose work bears no resemblance to what happens in the James Bond films. Instead, he is employed by one of those large companies dedicated to surveillance and data control, who know everything about us. However, even today there are people who elude this scrutiny and leave no digital footprint. This is the case of Jonás, a shopkeeper who loves to chat with his customers, and Casilda, an activist in a clandestine anti-establishment group.

The extraordinary meeting of the European explorers and the pygmies as never before recounted.  

It is difficult to find a human group more different in terms of physique and cultural mores than the inhabitants of the African jungle, improperly labelled as “pygmies”. Far-removed from us and from everyone.

Homer mentions them in the Iliad and his verses are the source of one of the most ridiculous and persistent misunderstandings in scientific history. Who were those pygmies who defended themselves with spears against the attacks of cranes? The answer is very simple: creatures as fabulous as our goblins. But Homer was already a classic in ancient Greece and if he said that the pygmies were real, it means that they were. So what is the connection between the inhabitants of the African jungle and the Greek pygmies? There isn’t one.

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.

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

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.