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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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  • SHADOW OF THE WIND: THE CEMETERY OF FORGOTTEN
    RUIZ ZAFON, CARLOS
    The Shadow of the Wind is a stunning literary thriller in which the discovery of a forgotten book leads to a hunt for an elusive author who may or may not still be alive...Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'Cemetery of Lost Books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man brings his 10-...
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  • PRIVATE LIFE
    SAGARRA, DE JOSEP MARIA
    Private Life holds up a mirror to the moral corruption in the interstices of the Barcelona high society Sagarra was born into. Boudoirs of demimonde tramps, card games dilapidating the fortunes of milquetoast aristocrats - and how they scheme to conceal them - fading manors of selfish scions, and back rooms provided by social-climbing seamstresses are portrayed in vivid, sordid...
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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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  • SOLDIERS OF SALAMIS
    CERCAS, JAVIER
    The International Bestseller of the Spanish Civil War - Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction PrizeIn the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, fifty prominent Nationalist prisoners are executed by firing squad. Among them is the writer and fascist Rafael Sanchez Mazas. As the guns fire, he escapes into the forest, and can hear a search party and their dogs hunting him do...
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  • UNTIL AUGUST
    GARCIA MARQUEZ, GABRIEL
    THE EXTRAORDINARY LOST NOVEL FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA AND ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDEA TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happily married and has no reason to escape the world she has made with her husband and children. And y...
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  • THE WIND KNOWS MY NAME
    ALLENDE, ISABEL
    THE POWERFUL AND MOVING NEW NOVEL FROM LITERARY LEGEND ISABEL ALLENDE‘A testament to love, survival and sacrifice’ HARPER’S BAZAAR No, we're not lost. The wind knows my name. And yours too.Vienna, 1938. Five-year-old Samuel Adler boards the last Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria, escaping to England with just a change of clothes and his beloved violin.Eight dec...
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  • PEDRO PARAMO
    RULFO, JUAN
    With an Introduction by Gabriel Garcia Marquez new translation by Douglas J. Weatherford. An outstanding edition and a game-changing translation London Magazine'There is no novel more mesmerizing and paradigm-shifting' Valeria Luiselli, the New York TimesIn this stunning masterpiece of the surreal, Juan Preciado sets out on a strange quest, bound by a promise to his dying mothe...
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  • ENGLISH HOURS
    SOLDEVILA, FERRAN
    Written in the form of a diary that runs from 1926 to 1928, English Hours is a delightful account of a Catalan in the UK during the inter-war period. In it, Soldevila writes endearingly of the country and people that he meets while providing us with an invaluable "foreign" look at this critical period in 20th century Great Britain. English Hours is not only an insight into Bri...
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  • RUTH
    VILADOT, GUILLEM
    How does one experience things from the viewpoint of the other sex? It is this question that has led to Vildot’s creation of Ruth, the genre-defining story of a sex change told by the protagonist through a series of letters to an anonymous friend. Far from the condemnatory gaze or noise of those who understand life as nothing but outward appearances, Ruth demonstrates the senti...
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  • OTHER PEOPLE'S BEDS
    PUNSODA, ANNA
    In her debut title, Other People’s Beds, Anna Punsoda shines a light onto the darkest corners of the soul with a clean, sharp prose that is punchy, devastating, and tender at the same time. Punsoda beautifully highlights her protagonist's body, a body that has been carved out of stone by her father’s alcoholism and her mother’s frustrated apathy. This character’s stolen innocen...
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  • ARIADNE IN THE GROTESQUE LABYRINTH
    ESPRIU, SALVADOR
    One of the defining texts of twentieth-century Catalan fiction, written by one of its most innovative and cherished writers, Salvador Espriu's "Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth" is a collection of thirty-four short stories in which the twists and turns of action, character, and place are as winding and sumptuous as the legendary maze of its title. Originally published in 1935...
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  • MAMMOTH
    BALTASAR, EVA
    A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR 2024AN OBSERVER BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR 2024A NEW STATESMAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR 2024Mammoth’s protagonist is a disenchanted young lesbian. She’s inexperienced, irritated by life, eager to gestate, and determined to strip everything else down to essentials. She seduces men at random, swaps her urban habitat for an isolated farmhouse, befriends a she...
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  • FOUR MAJOR PLAYS
    GARCIA LORCA, FEDERICO
    `I have made a terrible discovery ... I have not yet been born ... I live off borrowed substance; what I have within me is not mine.' In his four last plays Federico García Lorca offered his disturbed and disturbing personal vision to Spanish audiences of the 1930s - unready, as he thought them, for the sexual frankness and surreal expression of his more experimental work.The i...
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  • SOLITUDE
    VICTOR CATALA (CATERINA ALBERT I PARADÍS)
    Caterina Albert i Paradís predates Federico García Lorca and D. H. Lawrence in her portrayal of women's sexual passions. She was an unsung pioneer of modernist literature at the beginning of the twentieth century, writing in the ancient Catalan language of Spain. Published under the nationalist (and necessarily male) pseudonym of Víctor Català, Solitude is regarded as the most ...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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