New Spanish Titles - Spring 2011

Marta has lost her grandfather, and her mother consoles her in the garden, looking at the star filled sky. Suddenly, Marta thinks she sees a star winking at her. Could it be her grandpa? A tender story that uses narrative and illustrations to great effect to explain the absence of her beloved grandparent to a small child.

Yechezkel Damjanich is a young Jewish violinist who lives with his mother in the devastated Budapest of 1947. One day, he receives a letter from Jerusalem from his uncle Yosef, whom he hasn't heard from for 12 years, and who his mother loathes for no apparent reason. Fleeing poverty, the two arrive in Palestine at a turbulent political moment, just before the English leave the region.

Paula is almost seventeen, and has a date with Ángel, a young man of twenty two whom she has met while chatting online. She is nervous and excited. The minutes go by and the boy does not appear, so she decides to go into a nearby café. There she has an amusing encounter with a stranger called Alex, who by chance is reading the same book as her.

A dizzying blend of the purest noir and the legendary romances of chivalry.