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A Crime Novel addict likes to imagine perfect murders, until someone starts committing them…

A Thriller with an original and groundbreaking plot in a Barcelona that never is what it seems.

El bosque chileno is part of I Confess I Have Lived, the memoirs the poet left unfinished when he died suddenly in 1973. The text is accompanied with the illustrations by the young Chilean artist Antonia Lara, and supplemented with ecological information on the main species Neruda mentions in the text.

Argentina’s heir to Saul Bellow and Woody Allen

"Life was unfair. No revolutionary party, no matter how powerful, could change that."

In October 1973, Argentina is a hotbed of repression, guerrillas and revolutionary splinter groups. Perón threatens to return to power for the third time, and Israel is attacked by Egypt and Syria, sparking the Yom Kippur War. The world seems to be on the brink of disaster as stand-up comedian José Mifkad returns home one night after performing at a wedding...

Este relato surge de una pregunta sencilla y terrible: la que, en algún momento de su temprana existencia, todo niño se formula alrededor del enigma llamado muerte. Bajo la tutela de un hada que la ayuda a forjar su carácter, H vive en una ciudad, pero también en un laberinto;

Todo empezó cuando recibí esta extraña invitación de la Watemberg para la inauguración de su galería en Madrid con una escultura que no debía ser vista por los invitados ni por la crítica. Me despertó un inusitado interés por el para mí desconocido Expósito, tanto como para que tres años después me vea publicando la autobiografía no autorizada del artista a quien no llegué a conocer en persona, 

Albert Sánchez Piñol defines this novel as “A 19th-century winter western set in the Pyrenees.” This book marks his return to the unclassifiable genre full of adventures, boundless imagination, and not without humour that he himself coined with Cold Skin and Pandora in the Congo.

This austere and sharp book—in which Duchamp stumbles upon Lupe, the revolution upon the museum, Paul Virilio upon Joan Fontcuberta or Fukuyama upon Michael Jackson—wonders if contemporary art will ever end. 

Breve dietario inédito de Joan Ferraté entorno al deseo y el amor.

La figura magnética de Gabriel Ferrater eclipsó a su hermano -que vivió muchos años en Cuba y en Canadá-, el crítico literario, traductor y poeta Joan Ferraté, de quien en 2018  se ha conmemorado el 15 aniversario de la muerte (con la entrega de su biblioteca personal a la UdG). 

A harsh yet fascinating non-fiction novel that is absolutely indispensable

In the early 1960s, a group of German immigrants settled in a village in inland Chile and founded Colonia Dignidad. For decades they presented themselves as an idyllic agricultural commune, until the testimony of certain runaway colonists revealed the horrors experienced within their walls.

Planeta Prize 2018

Wife and mother of emperors, Julia Domna (170-217), of Syrian origin, was an outsider who captivated all of Rome with her intelligence and beauty. In her struggle to protect her family and husband, Governor Septimius Severus (who she shrewdly turned into an emperor), Julia faced turbulent times.