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Cuando llegue la mañana

Juan Madrid
Cuando llegue la mañana / When the Morning Comes

Novel, Alianza (May 2024)

The most enduring detective in Spanish crime fiction: Toni Romano in a gloomy, criminal Madrid.

Toni Romano’s latest case confronts him with the disappearance of a newborn child. The hospital has certified her death, but the family suspects the baby is alive and well and up for sale on the black market.

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Lo que pasó

Javier Ruescas
Lo que pasó / What Happened

Books for children and young readers, Crossbooks (May 2024)

A moving novel: the story of a homophobic assault.

In What Happened Javier Ruescas fearlessly explores the insidious effects of homophobia within law enforcement, shining a light on the plight of victims and the far-reaching consequences of discrimination. Drawing from personal experience, Ruescas delivers an emotionally charged tale that resonates on multiple levels.

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Filo & Sofia 5: Siete misterios y medio

Cuca Canals
Filo & Sofia 5: Siete misterios y medio / Seven Mysteries and a Half

Books for children and young readers, Edebé (May 2024)

The orphans who are part of the Academy, led by the young Sofía Hipatia, use a revolutionary way of thinking, based on philosophy, to find new clues that will help catch the most wanted criminal. The disappearance of several elderly people leads the members of the Academy to suspect that the cases are connected.

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Una llum tímida

Àfrica Alonso
Una llum tímida / A Timid Light

Novel, Empúries (May 2024)

A beautiful story of impossible love. Two women united forever in the wrong epoch.

At the height of the Franco dictatorship, in a small Valencian town, two teachers, Isabel and Carmen, fall in love and begin a furtive affair, at a time when lesbianism was considered immoral and criminal and therefore almost unthinkable. Isabel is mature and brave, she has cut ties with her family and accepts herself just as she is. Carmen, on the other hand, is fragile and dependent.

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Soñar como sueñan los árboles

Brenda Lozano
Soñar como sueñan los árboles

Novel, Alfaguara (April 2024)

The lives of Gloria Felipe and Nuria Valencia intertwine around the kidnapping of a little girl that shakes the Mexican capital in the 1940s. Through a narrator who (in her own words) 'doesn't sing rancheras badly,' we witness the Miranda Felipe family's battle to recover their youngest member and the anxious upbringing of the Fernández Valencia family to save their own daughter from a potential danger that the police haven't been able to stop, reported by the media in the tone of a thriller.

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Prohibida en Normandía

Rosario Raro
Prohibida en Normandía / Forbidden in Normandy

Novel, Planeta (April 2024)

Una historia de amor en tiempos de guerra basada en la vida de la corresponsal de guerra más célebre de la historia.

Martha Gellhorn se negó a ser una nota a pie de página en la nutrida biografía de su marido, Ernest Hemingway. No estaba hecha para ser una solícita ama de casa, había cubierto como reportera la Gran Depresión y la guerra civil española, y ahora, en 1944, estaba firmemente comprometida en la lucha contra Hitler.

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Mitama i la cançó del mar

Carme Solé Vendrell
Mitama i la cançó del mar / Mitama and the Song of the Sea

Books for children and young readers, Baula (April 2024)

Mitama is now the main character of these three stories in which she encounters a kind moon, supportive dolphins, and the terrible eruption of a volcano. But, in reality, Mitama i la cançó del mar is a book that comes from afar, a work that speaks of a woman seeking answers to be at peace with the girl she once was, who shaped her life, her career, and her work.

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Una ombra blanca

Carme Riera
Una ombra blanca / A White Shadow

Novel, Edicions 62 (April 2024)

The secrets of a diva. A life of success and fame marked by a childhood trauma. 

After losing her voice and surviving a heart attack, the world-famous soprano Barbara Simpson decides to take a break and review some unresolved issues in her life, with the help of her mother's diaries.

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Cuentos verdaderos

Rosa Montero
Cuentos verdaderos / True Tales

Journalistic Work, Alfaguara (March 2024)

Cuentos verdaderos (True Tales) brings together the chronicles and reports that Rosa Montero, one of the most important voices in journalism and literature of recent decades, published in El País during the period 1978-1988. Written mostly with the techniques of the best fiction and with the urgency to tell the news already in the past, they are read today as if they were stories. It is literature breaking through impetuously.

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A Rilke, variaciones

Rafael Cadenas
A Rilke, variaciones / To Rilke, Variations

Anthology / Selection, Galaxia Gutenberg (March 2024)

In this anthology the Venezuelan poet Rafael Cadenas describes the hesitant manner in which he initially approached the work of Rainer Maria Rilke, the absolute protagonist of this book, which is simultaneously a tribute, critical reading, and testimony of an elective – and spiritual – affinity that has endured for decades. Cadenas' writing, always intense and austere, is sharpened even further in the poems that articulate this moving and powerful dialogue with the author of Elegías de Duino, one of the central poets of the 20th century.

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