New Spanish Titles - Spring 2010 - B

  • Bagdad
    Bagdad
    Author:
    Juan Kruz Igerabide
    Publisher: Editorial Erein
    The plot takes place at two levels, two stories that evolve in parallel. The first one takes us to the beautiful world of the Sufi era, when Baghdad had a caliph and the Arab culture was in its golden age. The second takes us to a closer world, one of violence and ignominy, the Baghdad of today. The bombarded Baghdad, the Baghdad in decline.
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  • Banderas lejanas
    Flags from Afar
    Author:
    Carlos Canales Torres
    Fernando Martínez Laínez
    Publisher: Editorial Edaf
    The history of the United States of America is one of the most engaging topics in popular history, but we must never forget that history is almost always written by the winners.
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  • Bar de anarquistas
    Author:
    JOSÉ MARÍA CONGET
    Publisher: EDITORIAL PRE-TEXTOS
    Most of the eight stories that make up Bar de anarquistas take place in the anonymous and grey capital city of a Spanish province where some children explore the mysterious corners of their school, a happy man is devastated by insuperable boredom, a college lecturer mortgages his life for a woman whom he hardly knows, a local civil servant writes ignored masterpieces, a couple of lovers discove
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