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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.

En más de 170 cartones de humor en los que retrata náufragos, cavernícolas, parejas, todo tipo de animales, oficinistas y ángeles, por mencionar algunos de los muchos personajes que aquí aparecen en los trazos de este agudo observador, Ros nos dibuja, de manera divertida, a todos nosotros en muy distintos escenarios de la vida cotidiana...

Madrid, 2110. Bruna Husky, detective and replicant, faces the most transcendental case of her life: to save the man she loves. Unlike humans, who too often forget their existence is limited, replicants know the exact date their mechanisms will shut down. Bruna Husky’s remaining lifetime is three years, three months, and sixteen days, time too valuable to waste on unimportant things. 

Las amantes boreales is the story of the deep, abysmal friendship between Roxana and Fedora, two young girls from Saint Petersburg’s upper middle class, during the most tumultuous and definitive period of Russia’s October Revolution.

Una historia de superación, una lección de vida.

El relato de la vida del lama Thubten Wangchen es fascinante. Desde la huida de su pueblo natal en el Tibet, pasando por la peligrosa travesía por las montañas, su época de mendigo y de niño de la calle en Katmandú, la vida en la escuela para niños tibetanos de la calle, los estudios y la vida espiritual en el monasterio del Dalai Lama en Dharamsala (India), hasta la apertura –por indicación del Dalai Lama– de la Casa del Tibet en Barcelona, donde emprendió su actividad para difundir la cultura tibetana y dar voz al gobierno tibetano en el exilio.

A new take on the expression “to live in harmony with nature,” based on another way of understanding our humanity.

Plants can help us understand human contradictions, and inspire us in what Montaigne called “the arduous science of knowing how to live well.”