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La tira de mujeres

Ángeles González-Sinde
La tira de mujeres

Other genres, Lumen (February 2020)

Ilustraciones de Laura Klamburg

Las tiras de este libro retratan nuestra vida cotidiana, desde lo crucial hasta lo más banal, con humor crítico pero cómplice. La vida de las mujeres ha cambiado mucho. O quizá no tanto. Hijas, madres, abuelas, solteras, casadas, separadas, viajeras, hogareñas, románticas, soñadoras, superficiales, profundas, quejicas, calculadoras, dramáticas, disfrutonas...

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Cubantropía

Iván de la Nuez
Cubantropía / Cubantropy

Non-fiction, Periférica (February 2020)

Cubantropía does not set out to explain Cuba to the world, but rather the other way around: it uses Cuba as a scale containing the world and its conflicts.

Written from the socialist perspective of the Cold War and the neoliberal perspective of subsequent years, Cubantropía is a harsh criticism of both that explores the connections between Cuban culture and geopolitics in the global era...

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Brujas

Brenda Lozano
Brujas / Witches

Novel, Alfaguara (February 2020)

The anxiously awaited and most ambitious novel yet by Brenda Lozano, one of the most prominent voices of the new generation of female Latin American writers.

A young journalist named Zoe travels from Mexico City to the remote area of San Felipe to write an article about Feliciana, an elderly wise woman whose healing arts attract writers, filmmakers and millionaires from around the world.

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Otoño lejos del nido

Ángel Gil Cheza
Otoño lejos del nido / Autumn Far from the Nest

Novel, Suma (February 2020)

A fast-paced thriller with deeply human characters that confirms Ángel Gil Cheza’s talent as one of the most original and unmissable mystery writers of the new wave.

A series of murders committed at different spots around Barcelona, a city rocked by social and political turmoil, combined with the mysterious disappearance of a best-selling author, brings together three characters at their wits’ end. 

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Marie Curie

Adela Muñoz Páez
Marie Curie

Non-fiction, Debate (February 2020)

The hidden story of Marie Curie, the mother of modern physics. 

Admired after being awarded her first Nobel Prize, commiserated after the death of Pierre Curie and fiercely attacked after the Langevin scandal, she was both revered in her native Poland, acclaimed by the Americans and the French for the development of radiotherapy, and undervalued by some scientists because of her status as a woman. 

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Los años impares

María Sirvent
Los años impares

Novel, Espasa (February 2020)

Los años impares es una original y singular novela que mezcla con acidez e ironía situaciones absolutamente divertidas con otras absolutamente melancólicas. María Sirvent nos ofrece un relato en el que personajes de carne y hueso, entrañables todos y perfilados maravillosamente, nos acercan a un mundo casi perdido y un fresco sobre la España contemporánea, con una crítica que va desde la sociedad al arte actual, pasando por los concursos televisivos y la música.

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La forastera

Olga Merino
La forastera / The Outsider

Novel, Alfaguara (February 2020)

A contemporary western set in the rugged, unforgiving territory of rural Spain. A thrilling story about human resilience.

For the locals, Angie is the village crazy lady. She lives isolated and alone in the country, surrounded by ghosts who torment her with childhood memories of a poor working-class neighbourhood in Barcelona and a passionate love affair in her youth with an artist from London.

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Retorno a Moulinsart

Tito Muñoz
Retorno a Moulinsart

Poetry, Aguilar (January 2020)

Estas páginas son una invitación a pasear en pantalón corto o con el uniforme de las teresianas y una tirita en la rodilla por el paisaje de la infancia, los primeros besos y las fotografías de veranos antiguos, rumbo al sótano de Moulinsart, donde se conserva el tesoro de la memoria trazado en línea clara.

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West End

José Morella
West End

Novel, Siruela (January 2020)

A lesson in humanity, as moving as Awakenings by Oliver Sacks, as real and desperate as life itself.

Inspired by his childhood memories of Ibiza’s West End in the 1970s and 80s, on a corner of the island inhabited by working families emigrated from Andalusia, hippies from around the world, and tourists looking to party, José Morella reconstructs the difficult life of his grandfather, Nicomedes, who suffered from mental illness. 

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A viva voz. Conferencias culturales

Carlos Fuentes
A viva voz. Conferencias culturales

Non-fiction, Alfaguara (December 2019)

A viva voz es asistir al encuentro cercano e íntimo con la palabra de uno de los pensadores más inquietos y vitales de todos los tiempos. Además del reconocimiento que recibió por su obra escrita, Carlos Fuentes siempre fue apreciado como uno de los grandes oradores, como un conferenciante crítico, agudo y generoso al momento de compartir sus ideas y puntos de vista.

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