New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2009 - C

Is Nature our mother? Does Mother Nature secure a stable, peaceful and pollution-free environment for us her sons to do well and freely? This book examines these and other questions that arrange our essential ideology on nature and the position humans occupy in the living world. The answers are surprising and oblige us to rethink some of our more deeply-rooted prejudices.

Fede is a fat, gross, lazy teenager, who’s a huge fan of Sid Vicious. He can’t stand the posh woman his father is married to. So he decides to run away from home and go to Barcelona, where his mother lives. She is a lonely woman who is paying for years of drugs and wild abandonment.

170 years have passed since English Bible seller George Borrow crossed Spain on horseback. The scenery, characters and adventures from his first trip were fixed in his book The Bible in Spain, a classic that became a best seller when it was published in 1843.

Set in a fantasy world parallel to ours, the novel allows young readers to identify themselves with the protagonist, who plunges faster than he would have liked in a magical universe that will require him to meet and work with many different characters he will end up feeling fond of. An ideal story for teenagers to learn the values of comradeship and unity in diversity.