New Spanish Titles - Year 2013

  • Cròniques de la veritat oculta
    Hidden Truth Chronicles
    Author:
    Pere Calders
    Publisher: Edicions 62 S.A.
    Hidden Truth Chronicles is a key work in Calders' writing and represents the discovery, for postwar readers, of an extraordinary storyteller. The author's humour and fantasy had, with the years, gained in intensity, depth and ambiguity, an ambiguity which always permeates fantastic literature, from Poe to Kafka, passing through Pirandello or Bontempelli.
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  • CUATRO MUERTES PARA LIDIA
    Four Deaths for Lidia
    CUATRO MUERTES PARA LIDIA
    Author:
    ENRIQUE PÁEZ
    Publisher: GRUPO EDITORIAL BRUÑO
    Young Lidia's world is torn apart by a brutal and apocalyptic plague. A circle of fire and smoke surounds the city she lives in; nobody seems to be safe. Lidia, together with her father and her brother Carlos, will begin a long journey to find her mother; a journey with no turning back, after which she'll never be the same again...
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  • Daniel en el espejo
    Daniel in the mirror
    Author:
    Antonio Jiménez Ariza
    Publisher: Ediciones Aljibe
    Daniel, a fifteen-year-old boy who has had to repeat the first and second years of secondary school, is thinking of abandoning his studies. One day he tells his tutor this. After the talk he has with her, it's possible he might reconsider his decision.
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  • Diario a dos voces
    Diary in Two Voices
    Author:
    Manuel Lamana
    Publisher: EDITORIAL SEIX BARRAL, S.A.
    Spain, winter 1939. AMong the hundreds of thousand of people crossing the bordering seeking refuge in France, the Lamana family get separated, hoping to be reunited in the neighbouring country.
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  • Diario de una Puta
    Diary of a Whore
    Diary of a Bitch
    Author:
    Mauro Zúñiga Araúz
    Publisher: EDITORIAL VERBUM, S.L.
    Readers will not find a linear narrative in these pages, for the plot is established by way of successive glimpses, which, led by the actions of the protagonists, exposes a series of deplorable human and social events, yet which are so authentic that anyone could identify them.
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  • EL AMOR Y SUS TUMBAS
    Love and Its Tombs
    EL AMOR Y SUS TUMBAS
    Author:
    MARÍA JOSÉ SÁNCHEZ
    Publisher: Algón Editores, S.L
    Love and Its Tombs tells of the tormented decision of a writer, Lázaro, as he writes a novel he has been forbidden to write about his great love, María, who died in tragic circumstances unknown to him since he is unwilling to find out the truth. 'I am going to begin these lines, which promise to be few, with an apology.
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  • EL ANARQUISTA QUE SE LLAMABA COMO YO
    The Anarchist Who Shared My Name
    EL ANARQUISTA QUE SE LLAMABA COMO YO
    Author:
    Pablo Martín Sánchez
    Publisher: Acantilado/ QUADERNS CREMA S.A.
    In 1924 the anarchist Pablo Martín Sánchez was condemned to be garrotted, accused of attempting to bring down Primo de Rivera's dictatorship. His homonym, the writer Pablo Martín Sánchez, seeks, in this unsettling novel, to reconstruct his story.
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  • El anillo de Uriel
    The Ring of Uriel
    Author:
    Tito del Muro
    Publisher: LEGUA EDITORIAL S.L.
    Written in an appealing style and with a social and moral backdrop, this novel is full of intrigue and action with a psychological depth, as well as excellent descriptions and dialogue. The author has succeeded in performing a balancing act between literary quality and entertainment, with a flowing, lyrical prose that makes for easy reading.
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  • El asesino de Becquer
    Becquer's Murder
    Author:
    Vicente Álvarez de la Viuda
    Publisher: Ediciones Don Bosco (Grupo Edebé)
    The brutal murder of a woman puts police in the peaceful city of Berlai on alert. Next to the body there is a press cutting which links the murder to Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and, firmly believing that they are dealing with a serial killer, the police contact the person that they think best knows the great love poet.
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  • El asesino del fin del mundo
    The Murderer at the End of the World
    Author:
    Miguel Ángel Gómez
    Publisher: Ediciones Noufront SL
    When an old man dies in strange circumstances in the home where his grandfather lives, Daniel realises that he is the only one who sees traces of an unsolved crime and not a simple unlucky accident. What was that man doing at the window in the early hours of morning? What is the meaning of the mysterious mountain of dead birds that suddenly appears in the home?
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