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  • PAPYRUS : THE INVENTION OF BOOKS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
    VALLEJO, IRENE
    Long before books were mass produced, those made of reeds from along the Nile were worth fighting and dying for. Journeying along the battlefields of Alexander the Great, beneath the eruptions of Mount Vesuvius, at Cleopatra's palaces and the scene of Hypatia's murder, award-winning author Irene Vallejo chronicles the excitement of literary culture in the ancient world, and the...
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  • THE BODY'S REASON
    MARÇAL, MARIA-MERCÈ
    The Body’ Reason is the first book by Catalan poet Mari-Mercè Marçal to be translated into English. She is a key figure in Catalan poetry of the post-Franco era, who was actively engaged in the transition to democracy and the emergence of a feminist movement in Spain. Hers is a uniquely challenging voice expressing a distinctive Catalan gendered perspective. ...
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  • HOMELAND
    ARAMBURU, FERNANDO
    Miren and Bittori have been best friends all their lives, growing up in the same small town in the north of Spain. With limited interest in politics, the terrorist threat posed by ETA seems to affect them little. When Bittori's husband starts receiving threatening letters from the violent group, however - demanding money, accusing him of being a police informant - she turns to ...
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  • ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE
    MARQUEZ, GABRIEL GARCIA
    'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice'Gabriel Garcia Marquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendia family and of Macondo, the town they built. Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its wars and di...
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  • POET IN NEW YORK
    GARCIA LORCA, FEDERICO
    'There has been no more terribly acute critic of America than this steel-conscious and death-conscious Spaniard, with his curious passion for the modernities of nickel and tinfoil and nitre ...'. So wrote Conrad Aiken of Lorca's violent response to the New York he encountered as a student at Columbia University in 1929 and 1930. Born and brought up in Andalusia, Lorca's reactio...
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  • FIFTY LOVE POEMS
    ABELLO, MONTSERRAT
    Fifty Love Poems és una col·lecció de cinquanta poemes sobre l´amor en els seus diferents aspectes, oscil·lant des de l´amor eròtic i la nostàlgia dels estimats que no hi són fins a la passió per la vida i l´escriptura. Els poemes han estat seleccionats d´entre tota la carrera literària de l´autora. El llibre conté els poemes originals en català amb una traducció a l´anglès fet...
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  • THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA
    FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA
    In The House of Bernarda Alba, a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and needs. The other plays here also portray female characters whose desires are tragically and violently frustrated: a woman's longing for a child in Yerma, and a bride's yearning for her lover in Blood Wedding. All appeal for freedom and sexual and socia...
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  • THE SPIRIT OF SCIENCE FICTION
    BOLAÑO, ROBERTO
    A tale of bohemian youth on the make in Mexico City from a master of contemporary fiction, and a sublime precursor to The Savage Detectives.Two young poets, Jan and Remo, find themselves adrift in Mexico City. Obsessed with poetry, and, above all, with science fiction, they are eager to forge a life in the literary world - or sacrifice themselves to it. Roberto Bolano's The Spi...
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  • TOMORROW IN THE BATTLE THINK ON ME (PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS)
    MARIAS, JAVIER
    Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me is a gripping and moving meditation on the hold that the dead have over the living, by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013.Victor, a ghostwriter, is just about to have an affair with Marta, a married woman, when - in the bedroom, half-undressed - she drops dead in his arms. He panics and slip...
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  • LABYRINTH OF THE SPIRITS
    RUIZ ZAFON, CARLOS
    Barcelona, 1957. Daniel Sempere runs the Sempere & Sons bookshop, is happily married and has a son. No longer the child who discovered the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, he is still haunted by the mysterious death of his mother when he was six years old. Meanwhile his best friend and accomplice, Fermin, is about to marry the love of his life. But something appears to be bothering...
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  • CATALAN POEMS
    GIMFERRER, PERE
    Spain's greatest living poet, Pere Gimferrer (b.1945) has written more than thirty books spanning verse, fiction, essay, and criticism. His earliest writings appeared in Spanish. In 1970 he began publishing in Catalan, and has alternated between the two languages since (with occasional forays into French and Italian). The present collection, the first book-length publication of...
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  • IF YOU TELL ME TO COME, I'LL DROP EVERYTHING, JUST TELL ME TO COME
    ESPINOSA, ALBERT
    A funny and uplifting fable about the journey to learn who we are, from the bestselling author of The Yellow WorldDani has devoted his life to finding missing children. One day, as his girlfriend starts packing her bags to leave him, he gets a phone call from a distraught father asking for help. It's a strange case, one that Dani wouldn't usually take on. But, when he hears his...
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  • LONDON UNDER SNOW
    LLAVINA, JORDI
    "One night I dreamt that I placed her body on the frozen surfice of the Serpentine. it was around dawn and there were no wardens. The bus drivers were yet to sit down on their raised seats to take their wheels, and the ticket collectors were still to start ripping theire way through the stubs at the entrance to the park. she was completely naked and the scar on her side was beg...
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  • THE MADNESS
    OLLER, NARCIS
    " It was evident that the melancholic voice of madness rolling around his head had entirely devoured him in his solitude. His egotism, false notion of self-worth and destinyon his Earth, and the vanity that, in effect, was the prelude to so much of his embryonic madness coupled with the desappointment of Madrid, had taken on the satanic proportions of hubris that, all too often...
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  • THE SILENT LETTER
    SUBIRANA, JAUME
    Award-winning poet, translator and academic , jaume Subirana is one of Catalonia's most treasuredpoets, winning some of its most prestigious prizes for his poetry and essays. In an eloquent translation from accomplisehd poet and translator Cristopher Whyte, The Silent Letter showcases Subirana's sharp observations, delicate eye for detail, stunningly beautiful images, and poig...
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  • SELECTED POEMS
    GARCIA LORCA, FEDERICO
    Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain's greatest modern poet and dramatist, was murdered by Fascist partisans in 1936, shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. He was by then an immensely popular figure, celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, and at the height of his creative powers. After his death, with his work suppressed, he became a potent symbol of the marty...
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  • THE SONG OF YOUTH
    ROIG, MONTSERRAT
    In the eight stories presented in The Song of Youth, Montserrat Roig (Barcelona, 1946-1991) employs languageas a weapon against political and social "dismemory", enabling the stories of those silenced by the brutal Francoregime to come to the fore. Feminist, critical but always lyrical, Roig's writing gives shape and meaning to thehuman experience. ...
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  • PERMAFROST
    BALTASAR, EVA
    Permafrost's no-bullshit lesbian narrator is an uninhibited lover and a wickedly funny observer of modern life. Desperate to get out of Barcelona, she goes to Brussels, 'because a city whose symbol is a little boy pissing was a city I knew I would like'; as an au pair in Scotland, she develops a hatred of the colour green. And everywhere she goes, she tries to break out of the ...
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  • THE BOOK OF BARCELONA : A CITY IN SHORT FICTION
    A slighted wife escapes her wealthy family for the evening and stumbles into the city's red-light district... The head of security at Barcelona's container port searches for a figure that only he has seen sneak in... An elderly woman brings home a machine that will turn her body into atoms, so she can leave behind a city that is no longer recognisable...Historically, Barcelona ...
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  • WHEN I SING, MOUNTAINS DANCE
    SOLA, IRENE
    "Sola pushes past the limits of human experience to tell a story of instinct and earth-time that is irresistible in its jagged glory." - C Pam Zhang, author of How Much of These Hills is Gold When Domenec - mountain-dweller, father, poet, dreamer - dies suddenly, struck by lightning, he leaves behind two small children, Mia and Hilari, to grow up wild among the looming summits ...
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  • TOMAS NEVINSON
    MARIAS, JAVIER
    THE GRIPPING FINAL NOVEL FROM THE GREATEST SPANISH WRITER OF HIS GENERATION, JAVIER MARIAS'The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature' Boston GlobeSpain in the 1990s is beset by a simmering campaign of terror from Basque separatists ETA, with periodic atrocities shattering an illusory calm. Against this backdrop, retired British Secret Service member T...
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  • DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA
    CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE
    'He thought it expedient and necessary that he should commence knight-errant, and wander through the world, with his horse and arms, in quest of adventures'Don Quixote, first published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, is one of the world's greatest comic novels. Inspired by tales of chivalry, Don Quixote of La Mancha embarks on a series of adventures with his faithful servant San...
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  • WILD HORSES
    CUSSA, JORDI
    Wild Horses is a brutally powerful, unflinching account of the heroin epidemic that swept across Catalonia in the 1980s. The novel, told from a variety of points of view, tells the story of a group of friends as they buy, sell, and consume heroin and other drugs in their home town. Wild Horses is a kaleidoscope of voices, stories, song lyrics and heartbreakingly all-too-real ch...
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  • THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES
    BOLAÑO, ROBERTO
    New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Bolano and Ulises Lima, poets and leaders of a movement they call visceral realism, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their mission: to track down the poet Cesarea Tinajero, who disappeared into the Sonoran Desert (and into obscurity) decades before. But the detectives are themselves hunted men, and their search for the past will end in ...
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  • THE JAPANESE LOVER
    ALLENDE, ISABEL
    From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted, multigenerational love story.In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war, young Alma Belasco's parents send her overseas to live with an aunt and uncle in their opulent San Francisco mansion. There she meets Ichimei Fukuda, the son of the family's Japanese g...
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  • THE DISCREET HERO
    VARGAS LLOSA, MARIO
    Felicito Yanaque has raised himself from poverty to ownership of a trucking business. His two sons work for him. He receives a threatening letter demanding protection money. The police don't take him seriously, Felicito refuses to pay up and gets sucked into a nightmare. He becomes a reluctant public hero. Then his mistress is kidnapped, and matters become seriously complicated...
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  • MOUNT CANIGO
    VERDAGUER, JACINT
    Catalonia's towering Romantic poet and rebel priest, Jacint Verdaguer (1845-1902), delves deep into the Catalan imaginary in his foundational long poem Mount Canigo (1886), recounting the historical and legendary mix, both tragic and triumphant, of the medieval origins of modern Catalonia. The collision between duty and love is mirrored by the symbolic conflict between, on the ...
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  • DON QUIXOTE
    DE CERVANTES, MIGUEL
    Miguel de Cervantes's mock-epic masterwork, Don Quixote was voted the greatest book of all time by the Nobel Institute, and this Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction and notes by John Rutherford.Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accompanied by his sq...
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  • THE ANGEL'S GAME
    RUIZ ZAFON
    The Angel's Game opens in Barcelona in the 1920s and is a prequel to The Shadow of the Wind. David Martin is a young man working in a newspaper office. But late one night the editor of the paper has a crisis - they have just had to drop six pages from the weekend edition and he has a matter of hours to fill them. With most of the staff already home, he turns to David and asks i...
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  • LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA
    MARQUEZ, GABRIEL GARCIA
    Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances and married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead. During that half-century, Flornetino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women, but has loved none but Fermina.When Fermina's husband is killed trying to retrieve his pet parrot from a mango tr...
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