New Spanish Titles - Spring 2011 - E

  • El afinador de habitaciones : precedido de "La cuervo"
    The room tuner
    Author:
    Celso Castro
    Publisher: Libros del Silencio
    A beautiful novel with a forceful narrative. Through its involving first-person narrative, in which the protagonist takes over the text, we learn of the life of a seventeen-year-old boy blessed with an uncommon perceptiveness: we learn of his obsessions, his worries, his unease, his literary passions, and his subjective vision of reality in general.
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  • EL ALMA DE LAS PIEDRAS
    The soul of the stones
    Author:
    PALOMA SÁNCHEZ-GARNICA
    Publisher: Editorial Planeta S.A.
    It is the year 824 when three peculiar characters - Paio the hermit, Teodomiro the bishop, and his assistant Martín de Bilibio - 'find' a tomb, the remains of which, they claim, belong to Saint James the Apostle. And so, in the Libredón forest, close to finis terrae or the end of the world, they create the Iocus Sancti Jacobi, for the greater glory of God.
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  • El amor y sus formas
    love and its forms
    Author:
    Javier Sádaba
    Publisher: Península
    This book is not a story, a treatise or a manual that analyzes loves, that state that escapes any attempt to control, understand or overcome it. It is not a work on the philosophy of love, but it does contain philosophical analyses. It is not a confrontation between love and morals, but it acknowledges that love and morals are twins who quarrel daily.
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  • El Camino de Santiago a pie
    Walking the Way of St James
    Author:
    Paco Nadal
    Publisher: El País-Aguilar
    A book about walking the Way of St James. Includes a description of the route and its historic buildings, plus practical information, maps, distances, hostels and lodgings, where to eat and buy provisions.
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  • El Camino de Santiago del norte
    The Northern Way of St James
    Author:
    Paco Nadal
    Publisher: El País-Aguilar
    A book about the Northern Way of St James. A variant on the way of St James which runs along the Cantabrian coast. Includes a description of the route and its historic buildings, plus practical information, maps, distances, hostels and lodgings, where to eat and buy provisions.
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  • EL CASO SANKARA
    the Sankara case
    Author:
    Antonio Lozano
    Publisher: Editorial Almuzara
    On 15 October 1987, Thomas Sankara, the president of Burkina Faso, was overthrown by men working for Blaise Compaoré, his comrade-in-arms and friend, who immediately succeeded him as president. Thus ended the country's revolutionary phase, set in motion four years earlier by the two men.
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  • El catalejo
    The telescope
    Author:
    Marta Serra Muñoz
    Publisher: Almadraba Editorial
    In my room there is a hole which I like to look through with the cardboard telescope that we made at school. Through it I can see all sorts of fantastic and unique animals. My friend Juan is also unique...
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  • El club de los tipos duros
    The Tough Guys' Club
    Author:
    Fernando Montero
    Rafael Galán
    Publisher: Gestión 2000
    Have you had enough of being trampled on and undervalued in your place of work? Do your colleagues take the credit for you hard work, steal your ideas and laugh at your shirts? Does your boss bully you or set you dreary tasks? Dr House, John Locke, Dexter Morgan, Hannibal Lecter, John McLane and Marge Simpson herself appear in this book as experts coaches.
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  • EL COMPOSITOR DE TORMENTAS
    The storm composer
    Author:
    ANDRÉS PASCUAL
    Publisher: Plaza & Janes
    Matthieu is a young musical genius who, fascinated by the magic of Versailles and its wild parties, yearns to be part of the orchestra of Louis XIV, the Sun King. What he cannot foresee is that a brutal murder will open the doors to the palace for him to carry out the sovereign's most ambitious project: the transcribe the meolody of the soul.
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  • El darrer manuscrit
    The darrer manuscript
    Author:
    Bartomeu Mestre
    Publisher: Columna Edicions S.A.
    An elderly man hangs himself in his cell on the same day he is imprisoned in 1986 for an attempt to blow up Palma train station. Shortly after he is detained, he confesses and hands an autobiographical manuscript to his priest, asking him to publish it. The story contains the confession of his failed atack and of an earlier case of sabotage in which no one suspected him.
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