New Spanish Titles - Spring 2012

  • El rastro del odio
    The Scent of Hatred
    El rastro del odio
    Author:
    Jordi Sierra i Fabra
    Publisher: Sirpus
    Juan Bárcenas is murdered in an old people's home in Barcelona, a sordid place governed by indifference, neglect and resentment.
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  • El ratón y los disfraces
    The mouse and the dressing up box
    El ratón y los disfraces
    Author:
    Irene Verdú
    Noèlia Conca
    Publisher: Edicions del Bullent
     What do you need to do to discover a world full of possibilities? Sometimes all you have to do is… imagine, dress up, dream, open a wonderful book, or… just take the paw of a little globe-trotting mouse!
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  • El sinsentido común
    Common Nonsense
    El sinsentido común
    Author:
    Borja Vilaseca
    Publisher: Ediciones Temas de Hoy
    Agent: Sandra Bruna Agencia Literaria S.L
     Our existence is constructed on a society that conditions us to think and behave in a determined way. For this reason, most of us have an egocentric, materialistic lifestyle, aimed at satisfying our own interests. Nevertheless, work, consumption, image and entertainment are unable to fill our inner void.
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  • El sueño de Lu Shzu
    Lu Shzu's Dream
    El sueño de Lu Shzu
    Author:
    Ricardo Gómez
    Tesa González
    Publisher: Edelvives
    Lu Shzu is a little girl who works on the assembly line in a factory. She leads a tranquil life until she discovers that the factory produces toys and she wants to have a doll of her own. She begins to collect pieces, but she is discovered and dismissed. However, her grandmother will manage to give her one as a gift.
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  • El vampir Ladislau
    The Vampire Ladislau (Picturebook)
    El vampir Ladislau
    Author:
    Enric Lluch
    Publisher: Edicions Bromera, empresa editorial, S.L.U.
    The Vampire Ladislau has a problem: his teeth are not sharpened and without them he can’t scare anyone or bite succulent necks. The life of a vampire can be very hard!
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  • El viaje a España de Charles Garnier y Gustave Boulanger (1868)
    Journey to Spain by Charles Garnier and Gustave Boulanger (1868)
    El viaje a España de Charles Garnier y Gustave Boulanger (1868)
    Author:
    Fernando Marias
    Publisher: Editorial Nerea
    In May 1868, the architect of the Paris Opera and the Monte Carlo Casino, Jean-Louis Charles Garnier set off on a journey around Spain lasting 25 days; he was accompanied by his wife, Louise Bary, and two friends: his disciple the architect Ambroise Baudry and the painter Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger.
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  • El vientre cósmico. La mujer en la posmodernidad
    THE COSMIC WOMB. Woman in Postmodernity
    El vientre cósmico. La mujer en la posmodernidad
    Author:
    María Eugenia Eyras
    Publisher: Sirpus
    What is the difference between a woman in the twenty first century and in previous epochs? Does gender equality mean she has to renounce her different point of view and her values? Postmodernity offers a new integrating paradigm which overcomes the dualist vision of opposition and suggests kinder, less aggressive ways of living. Nowadays feminine energy is becoming more prominent.
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  • El vigilante del fiordo
    The Guardian of the Fiord
    El vigilante del fiordo The Guardian of the Fiord
    Author:
    Fernando Aramburu
    Publisher: TUSQUETS EDITORES, S.A.
    Read report: El vigilante del fiordo
    In the wake of the acclaimed short story book "Los peces de la amargura" (The fishes of sorrow), The Guardian of the Ford provides eight stories written in implacable and lucid style. The circumstances and life experiences of the characters are taughtly drawn, underlining all the drama and heroism that the human soul contains, as well as the meanness, atrocity and absurdity.
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  • El zapato de la lengua rota
    The Shoe with a Broken Tongue
    El zapato de la lengua rota
    Author:
    Maria Zabay
    Publisher: Editorial Almuzara
    Young Erhard, from a well off German family and a close friend of Heinrich Himmler, is sent to Poland as a Nazi spy. He disguises himself as a Jew, even circumcising himself, and enters into a world of stratagems, manipulations, betrayals and deceit that end most unexpectedly.
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  • El zoo de Antón
    Antón's zoo
    El zoo de Antón
    Author:
    Juan Berrio
    Publisher: Bang Ediciones
     Antón likes to draw. One day, as he draws a ladybird, something magical happens: it starts to fly and becomes real. The ladybird plays with Antón and introduces him to an entire fantastic world. It draws a sheep with its wings as it flies, and then this too becomes alive; with its wool, the sheep traces the outline of a duck which, suddenly, starts to walk.
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