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Gloria bendita

Juan Madrid
Gloria bendita

Novel, Alianza Editorial (October 2020)

María, a former athlete who scrapes a living by doing odd jobs, has attracted the attention of the Emeritus. Secret mechanisms are set in motion to satisfy royal desires, under the control of Commissioner Romero, a complex character at the service of the powerful, who, together with his faithful and ineffable wife, pulls the strings from the shadows and plans often illegal but always lucrative business transactions.

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Todas as Cartas

Clarice Lispector
Todas as Cartas / All the Letters

Letters, Rocco (October 2020)

All the Letters brings together the correspondence written by Clarice Lispector throughout her life. This selection of letters, of which about half are unknown to the public, provides a basic resource for understanding the author's literary career.

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Los cinco continentes del amor (con Francesc Miralles)

Javier Ruescas
Los cinco continentes del amor (con Francesc Miralles) / The Five Continents of Love

Books for children and young readers, Nube de Tinta (October 2020)

The definitive map to understanding love. A successor to the fables of Paulo Coelho and Jostein Gaarder.

Olimpia does not understand why her father, who abandoned her and her mother two months previously to embark on a sea voyage without giving any explanation, shows no sign of life even on the day she turns 18...

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Encargo

Berta Marsé
Encargo / Entreaty

Novel, Anagrama (October 2020)

Two teenagers, friends and rivals, united by a sinister and terrible event.

The destinies of Desiré and Yésica are forever linked together when one of them is kidnapped. Yésica, the beautiful, intelligent girl who gets the best grades in high school, is abducted when leaving a concert, while Desiré, who is quite the opposite, returns home safe and sound on that night.

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Um Dia Chegarei a Sagres

Nélida Piñon
Um Dia Chegarei a Sagres

Novel, Record (October 2020)

Portugal, 19th century. Mateus, a young peasant, the son of a prostitute accused of witchcraft, is brought up by his grandfather Vicente, a man without studies but a lover of nature and the Portuguese language, who struggles to give his grandson an education.

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Sin muertos

Alicia Giménez Bartlett
Sin muertos / No Deaths

Novel, Destino (October 2020)

Who is Petra Delicado? This enigmatic question presents the best-selling police inspector with her toughest challenge. Pure noir, 100% crime-free.

What we know about Petra Delicado is that she is a veteran homicide detective and that her contradictions are illustrated by her first and last names (which mean “stone” and “delicate”, respectively). She has always abhorred marriage and yet she has been married three times.

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Dioses contra microbios. Los griegos y el Covid 19

Alejandro Gándara
Dioses contra microbios. Los griegos y el Covid 19 / Gods Against Microbes. Eros and Covid-19

Non-fiction, Ariel (September 2020)

A dazzling, provocative essay that revisits the ancient world to draw the lessons that this century cannot give us.

In the 5th century BC, any Athenian who reached the age of 50 was a born survivor: he would have participated in two or three wars and survived a plague in which half the population perished, seen his city burnt to ashes, rebuilt and destroyed again, and misery and hunger were part of the natural cycle of life.

In the 21st century, we take change badly, from a simple house move to a divorce or illness.

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Una historia de la mentira

Juan Jacinto Muñoz-Rengel
Una historia de la mentira / A History of Lying

Non-fiction, Alianza (September 2020)

The only essay in which the abundance of deceptions and falsifications on its pages is a guarantee of its achievements and virtues.

When Epimenides stated that all Cretans were liars, he created a serious quandary for the philosophers of his time, and those of later centuries. Since Epimenides was Cretan, was he telling the truth or lying? This mendacious Cretan was not the first to theorise about lying...

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Beethoven. Un músico sobre un mar de nubes

Ramon Gener
Beethoven. Un músico sobre un mar de nubes / Beethoven. A Musician on a Sea of Clouds

Non-fiction, Random Comics (September 2020)

Beethoven’s life and music recounted by the unusual voice of the most recognized and best-liked music populariser in Spain.

Illustrated by Fernando Vicente.

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Viaje al sur

Juan Marsé
Viaje al sur

Non-fiction, Lumen (September 2020)

In 1962 Juan Marsé toured the provinces of Seville, Cadiz and Malaga accompanied by his friend Antonio Pérez and the photographer Albert Ripoll Guspi. His intention was to write an account of that trip, interspersing photographs and headlines from the Francoist press in such a way that his story would penetrate the reality silenced by officialdom. 

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