New Spanish Titles - Year 2013

  • Karnaval
    Karnaval
    Author:
    Juan Francisco Ferré
    Publisher: Editorial Anagrama S.A.
    The starting point for this novel is a real person: one of the most powerful men in the world, who became the hottest topic of conversation on news reports, TV debates and among gossips around the world after he was arrested as he flew speedily back to his own country, accused of having raped a black migrant worker in the room of a luxurious New York hotel.
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  • KÁRVADAN. La leyenda del impostor
    Kardavan. The Legend of the Impostor
    KÁRVADAN. La leyenda del impostor
    Author:
    Carles Batlle Jordà
    Publisher: LA GALERA
    In summer 2011, Pol Bársac climbs off the balcony and escapes from the police; they want to arrest him for sabotage during the Indignants demonstrations. Due to a strange physical phenomenon, Pol is transported to another dimension, to a fantastic universe full of magnificent castellated cities, wondrous creatures and leafy forests, which seems oddly familiar.
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  • La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz
    Author:
    Antonio G. Iturbe
    Publisher: Editorial Planeta S.A.
    Atop the black mud of Auschwitz that swallows everything, Fredy Hirsch has built a secret school. In a place where books are banned, young Dita hides under her skirts the fragile volumes of the smallest, most remote and clandestine public library that has ever existed.
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  • La canción de Nora
    Nora's Song
    Author:
    Erika Lust
    Publisher: Espasa
    Nora is 24 years old, fearless and with hardly any past behind her, a great sense of humour but above all, an endless desire to enjoy all that life puts in front of her. A film student in oh-so-cool Barcelona, she is the object of desire of two very different men: Xavier, a sophisticated intern, and mysterious, sensual Matías.
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  • La casa del silenci
    HOUSE OF SILENCE
    La casa del silenci
    Author:
    Blanca Busquets
    Agent: Algaida Editores
    'La casa del silenci ' is a novel about women, classical music and a violin. The story takes place during a concert in Berlin: when it's about to start, the air is tense, and the presence of an old woman in the audience is making a few members of the orchestra nervous. Who is she? What is their relationship to her?
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  • La ciudad de los ojos grises
    The City of Grey Eyes
    Author:
    Felix G. Modroño
    Publisher: Algaida Editores
    After several years living in Paris, Alfredo Gastiasoro returns to Bilbao when he learns that Izarbe has died. His return is meant to be the last homage to the woman he loved, but it will become an investigation of the unsettling circumstances surrounding her death.
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  • La felicidad es un té contigo
    Happiness is a cup of tea with you
    Author:
    Mamen Sánchez
    Publisher: Espasa
    A hilarious comedy in which five Spanish women and the ghost of García Lorca try to trick an eccentric Englishman. When the eccentric Atticus Craftsman shows up in Madrid with a mission to close down a literary magazine that is only making losses, he doesn't imagine that dealing with the magazine's five members of staff is going to be too hard.
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  • LA FRAGILIDAD DE LOS CUERPOS
    The Fragility of Bodies
    Author:
    SERGIO OLGUÍN
    Publisher: TUSQUETS EDITORES, S.A.
    A train driver commits suicide and leaves a letter in which he begs forgiveness for the part he played in the deaths of four people. Ambiguous references to a child among the victims draw the attention of Verónica Rosenthal, the ruthless editor of Nuestro Tiempo magazine.
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  • LAS POSEÍDAS
    The Possessed
    Author:
    Betina González
    Publisher: TUSQUETS EDITORES, S.A.
    A new girl, Felisa Wilmer, joins a religious school for girls in the north of Buenos Aires. Recently arrived from London, Felisa becomes the centre of attention thanks to her rebellious attitude and bad behaviour, and her artistic tendencies, her perfect English and her impenetrable and independent character means that she is surrounded by a 'poetic' aura.
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  • MAGO POR CASUALIDAD
    Magician by Chance
    MAGO POR CASUALIDAD
    Author:
    Laura Gallego García
    Publisher: GRUPO EDITORIAL BRUÑO
    Once upon a time there was a fantastical kingdom with fairies, dragons, knights and everything else that fantastical kingdoms have. There was also a big city and a path leading to it, and next to that path was the Fat Ogre's house. The young Mouse worked as a servant there, and one day he got the powers of the evil magician Calderaus by accident... Powers that he doesn't know how to use...
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