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A posthumous book evoking the lyricism of Antonio Sarabia’s best literature

Hilario Godínez does not have God’s forgiveness. He tells himself this again and again. And it’s because he’s a loser, an idealist who chose to study letters out of a weak and unjustified literary vocation. He now writes the sports column for a newspaper in a northern Mexican town, El Sol de Hoy, and can look forward to an unstimulating professional future. His love life is no more satisfying. Shortly before his fortieth birthday, his most stable relationship is with a stranger who’s been writing him love letters for fifteen years...

A gripping noir novel set in the cesspits of the Francoist police force.

1938. Dimas Prado, a young and ambitious Francoist, takes over the investigation of the double murder of a teenage prostitute and a madam in a house in Burgos. His plans do not involve catching the killer, a celebrated general on the Nationalist side, but to erase every trace of the crime, clues, and witnesses. 1946. Of that crime, buried like so many other outrages after the war, there is still one final loose end...

The definitive selection of the best stories by Juan Marsé, featuring unpublished material.

Juan Marsé’s literature draws on oral narrative and stories rescued from the Barcelona neighbourhoods where he grew up. The post-war period, cinema, political and cultural satire, irony and melancholy, imposture and split personality, childhood and parenthood are some of the constants found throughout his works, which make him a genuine and unique narrator.

This volume, edited by Cecilia García-Huidobro, focuses on the diaries from the first period (1950-1965), which record the Chilean writer’s early creative babblings and tireless self-exploration in search of a literary identity. In Diarios tempranos. Donoso in progress, we witness the miraculous intimate life of an author who is bubbling over with enthusiasm, who never gives up, who tries again and again and spurs himself on with a sentence that paints a full-body self-portrait: “I’m dying to write.”

El reloj, el gato y Madagascar

When this text was published for the first time in 1983, globalisation of the markets was being celebrated by most economists, led by Milton Friedman, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics. However, Sampedro’s humanistic views prevented him from joining in the generalised optimism. “Pinochet’s economic programme is excellent,” “In order to reduce inflation, unemployment will have to be increased,” said Friedman in 1982. The growing dehumanisation of economic studies seemed obvious, and Sampedro warned that by following the rules of methodological instrumentalism, the most famous economists might forget something as basic as the fact that economics is a social science. 

Seleccionados por Matías Rivas, los poemas que conforman esta obra selecta están pensados como el legado esencial de Nicanor Parra, una gran puerta de entrada para quienes no conozcan cabalmente la antipoesía y, a la vez, la mejor síntesis para quienes ya la admiran, la estudian o, simplemente, la leen con renovada pasión.

Raúl del Pozo lleva el periodismo en la sangre y la poesía en el alma. Su pluma incansable abarca todos los recovecos del oficio de periodista. Pero Raúl, además de periodista de raza, mentor y maestro de nuevas generaciones, es un escritor ágil y deslumbrante y eso es lo que hace en El último pistolero: fascinarnos mientras cuenta nada más, y nada menos, que la vida. Es esa vida, con sus milagros y sus miserias, la que transcurre en estas páginas. Pero, eso sí, es la vida de los personajes más inciertos, más ruines o más noticiables. La vida de cada dia del político, del sátiro, de alguna mujer admirada o de un artista fugaz y todos ellos terminan igualados en la ironía o el heroísmo porque nadie como él puede escribir sobre lo divino y lo humano con esa sonoridad musical del lenguaje.

Was Oswald an agent of the U.S. government intelligence services?

“The plots that converged at Dealey Plaza in Dallas on 22 November 1963, at 12:30 P.M., in just 5.6 seconds (…) appear to be extremely intricate. However, starting long before the events, everything – they called it The Big Event – was under the control of the C.I.A. (…) The Dallas conspiracy was unique, and not only because it was the most famous. It was also the most widely analysed. The aim of my book lies in the exercise of such an analysis: I always knew it was a real challenge to vivisect the most twisted conspiracy ever known.” Javier García Sánchez

“I think I always had a vocation for darkness and secrecy.” With this sentence, written in a notebook toward the end of her life, Aurora Bernárdez summed up her unique bond with literature. To follow this vocation, which she never betrayed, Bernárdez limited her public appearances to the strictly necessary and kept the exercise of her own creations to herself. El libro de Aurora brings together poems, short stories and notes from a woman who was a brilliant translator, the first reader of Julio Cortázar’s works and his literary executor...