New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2009

El legado de Osiris

Osiris’ Legacy

Author:
Carlos Sanmiguel

Publisher: La esfera de los libros

In present day Barcelona, the young computer technician Beltrán, who once dreamt of changing the world, has ended up selling his soul to the establishment, working for a big multinational com¬pa-ny. He can’t believe in anything anymore, and even less since one year ago his beloved wife got killed in an absurd traffic accident.

Read more
El lenguaje prohibido de los aromas

The Forbidden Language of Smells

Author:
Mabela Ruiz-Gallardón

Publisher: Editorial Planeta S.A.

El lenguaje prohibido de los aromas is an incomparable novel that takes us to the realm of smell and its consequences. A novel set in London and Madrid during the second half of the twentieth century.

Read more
EL LIBRO DEL AMOR ESQUIVO

THE BOOK OF ELUSIVE LOVE

Author:
Rubén Abella

Publisher: EDICIONES DESTINO, S.A

Read report: El Libro de Amor Esquivo (The Book of Elusive Love)

An urban novel of criss-crossing lives that come together, written with a brilliant blend of registers ranging from the poetic to the humorous. A tale of love, lovelessness, the bliss of complicity and desire, and the impossibility of perpetuating what is probably no more than a creation of our own.

Read more
El manuscrito de piedra

The Stone Manuscript

Author:
Luis García Jambrina

Publisher: Alfaguara

Read report: El manuscrito de piedra

Towards the end of the XV century, Fernando de Rojas, a law student at the University of Salamanca, will investigate the murder of a theology professor. Thus begins a complex web in which the situation of the Jews and converts intertwine.

Read more
El maravilloso Mundo de Creosbe

The wonderful World of Creosbe

Author:
Lorena Martín Morán

Publisher: BRIEF EDICIONES S.L

Creosbe’s World is actually an underwater world, riddled with naiads, sirens and elves, a place you can reach at full moon nights. This fantastic universe is inevitably linked to ours through a magic door, hidden under Lake Enol, in Asturias.

Read more
El maravilloso viaje de Xía Tenzin

The Marvellous trip of Xía Tenzin

Author:
Patxi Zubizarreta

Publisher: Edelvives

Xía Tenzin, a giant who lives at the top of Tibet, wants to find his father, who left the village when Xía was still a child and never came back. Xía is determined to repeat the trip his father wanted to take, travelling thousands of kilometres, from his village to the sea, always following the Yellow River.

Read more
El mejor lugar del mundo es aquí mismo

The Best Place in the World is Right Here

Author:
Francesc Miralles

Publisher: Ediciones Urano, SAU

Iris is thirty-six and she is shattered by the death of her parents in an accident. A grey and cold afternoon, when the world seems to have no sense, she begins to walk the streets trying not to return home. Just when she is thinking of doing something mad, she discovers a café she hadn’t seen before.

Read more
El món sobre rodes

The World on Wheels

Author:
Albert Casals

Publisher: Edicions 62 S.A.

Read more
El mundo es un pañuelo

It is a small world

Author:
Bartolo Luque

Publisher: Publicacions de la Universitat de València

With a great sense of humour, the texts that constitute this book deal with very different scientific topics: statistical lies, the determinist chaos, the globalisation of communications, the dangers of computing, or mathematical questions around prime numbers.

Read more
EL NAVEGANTE DORMIDO

THE SLEEPING SEEFARER

Author:
Abilio Estévez

Publisher: TUSQUETS EDITORES, S.A.

Read report: El navegante dormido

October 1977. In an old hardwood house situated on a secluded beach near Havana, the women of the Godínez family cover doors and windows and prepare for the arrival of a devastating hurricane that has been announced. In the old bungalow, enjoyed as unexpected inheritance from Dr. Samuel O.

Read more

New Spanish Books: The online guide of titles from Spanish publishers and literary agents with rights for translation in the UK. To consult titles available in other markets please click on the above links.

Latest on Twitter

Spanish titles

New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2009