New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2009 - L

  • Los parientes de Ester
    Ester’s relatives
    Author:
    Luis Fayad
    Publisher: Fernando Fernández Villa
    In Los parientes de Ester, Luis Fayad enters the social fabric of Bogota in the late sixties and early seventies to tell the decline of a family that clings to tradition.
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  • LOS SIKHS
    SIKHS
    Author:
    Agustín Pániker Vilaplana
    Publisher: EDITORIAL KAIRÓS, S.A.
    Sikhs are a religious and social community with a very pronounced sense of identity. Not surprisingly, in its five centuries of history Sikhism has known how to establish differences with Hinduism and Islam. Anyone recognizes the Sikh man in a turban and with a long beard.
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  • LUCIÉRNAGAS (El libro de la clase de español)
    LUCIÉRNAGAS (The Book for Spanish Language Lessons)
    Author:
    Mariarosa Pellicer Palacín
    Publisher: Editorial VIS-A-VÍA
    - Spanish/Foreign Language, Spanish/Second Language - Intermediate (A2-B1) - Spanish as a mother tongue for those living abroad - School children (aged approximately 14 and above) and adults A journey through 20th-century Spain focusing on three fundamental generations: the war children, the children of “peace” and the children of freedom.
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  • L’home manuscrit
    The Manuscript Man
    Author:
    Manuel Baixauli
    Publisher: Edicions Proa
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    Who is writing the texts that the protagonist of this novel keeps finding in the most unexpected places? Firstly, within the pages of a bible, later in the walls of an abandoned lighthouse and in a doctor’s waiting room in Vienna. The hidden stories speak about him and his life: the man he could have been and the man he may end up becoming.
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