New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2009 - E

EL CLUB DE LOS ESTRELLADOS

THE CLUB OF THE CRASHED

Author:
JOAQUÍN BERGES

Publisher: TUSQUETS EDITORES, S.A.

Francho, a vocational postman and unavoidably single due to his appearance, leads a routine, neat and tidy life. Every day he has breakfast and lunch with Hortensia at his best friend’s cafe, and weekends he lets the latter drag him to his amateur astronomy group, a peculiar club of solitary men who shelter one another. Everyone is surprised that Francho never speaks about women.

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El comienzo de la primavera

The Beginning of the Spring

Author:
Patricio Pron

Publisher: Literatura Mondadori

Martínez, a young Argentine, decides to set off on a trip to Germany in search of an old philosophy professor close to Heidegger’s circle –Hans-Jürgen Hollenbach– in order to discuss with him the Spanish translation of one of his books.

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El complot de los Románticos

Dante hits the road

Author:
Carmen Boullosa

Publisher: Ediciones Siruela, S.A.

The Parnassus is an annual literary festival with the peculiarity that all participants are master writers…already dead.

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El corazón del héroe

The Heart of a Hero

Author:
Juan José Flores

Publisher: Alfaguara

LOVE WINS THE BATTLES REASON LOSES. THAT’S WHAT THIS DREAM IS LIKE… Having woken up from a coma which no one thought he would survive, Lino retakes his ordinary life as a watchman in a magic bar shows. Every night, after waiting for the return of his beloved Milena, he has the same dream, a dream he can’t explain…

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El deporte en la construcción del espacio social

Sport in the Construction of Social Space

Author:
Álvaro Rodríguez Díaz

Publisher: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas

Sport is a social practice that is riddled with mechanisms for partnership and group languages that are autonomous and interdependent. This finding was verified by research that collected data through field observation, personal interviews and statistical surveys carried out in Seville.

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El desarrollo psicológico infantil. Áreas y procesos fundamentales

Author:
Juan E. Adrián Serrano

Publisher: Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I

During the first years of life, what will be the bases of human condition is made up –the whole of it is subject to an interaction between heredity and environment’s effects.

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EL DISEÑO DE ESTAMPACION EN MODA

FASHION PRINTS DESIGN

Author:
Ángel Fernández

Publisher: PARRAMON PAIDOTRIBO S.L.

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EL ESPIA IMPERFECTO

THE IMPERFECT SPY

Author:
José Luis Caballero

Publisher: ROCA EDITORIAL DE LIBROS SL

A member of the terrorist group ETA, known as Iñaki, gets in touch with a former friend, Eduardo, who is now a journalist because he wants to defect and to collaborate with the Spanish Government. As soon as the news reaches the CNI (Spanish Intelligence Agency), they send Miguel Maestre, a well trained spy, to contact Iñaki.

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El estatus

Author:
Alberto Olmos

Publisher: Lengua de Trapo

Read report: El Estatus

A woman arrives with her twelve-year-old daughter at the apartment where her husband wants them to live while he is away on his unusually long business trips. Very soon, they discover that they are alone in the building except for an angry and taciturn doorman, her husband’s strange employee who visits them repeatedly, and the cleaning lady.

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El exilio de los marinos republicanos

Author:
Victoria Fernández Díaz

Publisher: Publicacions de la Universitat de València

This detailed study represents a very important contribution to the knowledge of the Spanish republican Diaspora after the defeat against Franco, because of its diversity and complexity.

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