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Albert Sánchez Piñol
Les estructures elementals de la narrativa / The Elementary Structures of Narrative
All the secrets of story-telling from the author of Cold Skin
Many writing and scriptwriting manuals promise magic formulas that are supposed to guarantee the success of your story. Les estructures elementals de la narrativa is no exception, except for a couple of details: the formula it proposes is not magic, but rather a scheme that is as simple as it is revealing because it holds all the secrets of narrative efficiency.
Pablo Neruda
Poesía completa: Tomo V (1969-1974) / Complete Poetry Vol. 5
The revised, definitive edition of Pablo Neruda's complete poetry.
Half a century has gone by since Pablo Neruda was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1971 and this fiftieth anniversary coincides with the publication of a revised edition, including unpublished poems, of the final volume of his complete poetry.
José Ovejero
Humo / Smoke
A post-apocalyptic story possessing a rawness and sensitivity comparable to Cormac McCarthy's The Road
A woman and a child survive in a secluded cabin in the woods. He is not her son and they hardly know each other. If she has taken him in, it is because neither of them has anyone else.
Marcelo Birmajer
La mesa del olvido y otros cuentos de amor
El diablo está en los detalles, pero el amor también. En los detalles, y en el azar de un encuentro, en eso que se produce a pesar de la voluntad. Es una puerta de entrada, la mejor manera de entender los propósitos de una vida; o de extraviarlos por completo. Las paradojas de conquistar lo inconveniente o buscar incansablemente lo que ya tenemos. Pasiones que sobreviven a la muerte y otras que la provocan. Los disfraces que en rigor son nuestra esencia.
John Berger
Swimming Pool
'This is a book about painting and swimming and how touch and voice can make light. It is about the way thoughts can drift to Cambodia and Gaza while doing the lengths in a public pool in Paris; how a Sho paint brush can turn into a bird and how the act of painting and swimming is like starting life all over again. Dive into this essential, desirable conversation between John Berger and Leon Kossoff and you will feel ever invigorated.’ Deborah Levy (from the Introduction)
Gabriel García Márquez
Camino a Macondo / The Road to Macondo
“[...] what lies between Leaf Storm and One Hundred Years of Solitude is around fifteen years of getting annoyed a lot, living a lot and being aware of this every day, trying to see how things were.” Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez stated on several occasions that nothing interesting happened to him after the age of eight...
Belén López Peiró
Por qué volvías cada verano / Why Did You Come Back Every Summer
Why You Came Back Every Summer describes the abuse the author was subjected to during her adolescence by a relative who was in the police force, as well as the consequences that this case had for her family and social environment.
Javier Ruescas
En Delos no puedes morir / In Delos You Can’t Die
In Delos death does not exist. It is a model community in the north of the world, where there is no place for suffering, no disease and no pain. The people of Delos are happy. And Oliver too, until his best friend leaves and he decides to go looking for him... without realising that it will be a journey of no return.
Josep Pla
Història de la Segona República Espanyola (1929-1933
Manuscrito original en catalán inacabado.
Un testimonio revelador sobre el posicionamiento de Pla durante la Guerra Civil.
En las postrimerías de la Guerra Civil Josep Pla redactó, por encargo de Francesc Cambó, una Historia de la Segunda República española; el libro se publicó en cuatro volúmenes, entre 1940 y 1941, en la editorial Destino, y no se ha reeditado nunca. Recientemente se ha descubierto, entre los papeles del autor, un manuscrito original del primer tercio de la obra...
Imma Monsó
Germanes / Sisters
All happy families are alike, except at Christmas, when each of the in-laws makes them unhappy in their own way.
When each year draws to a close, Rita indulges herself in an inconfessable dream that she zealously nourishes but never dares to realise: to spend Christmas Eve alone in her Barcelona flat, in her pajamas, eating chips and reading by the radiator.