New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2010 - E

Socri, Konfi, Topo and Rey, the protagonists of Iranzo’s El perro pastor que perdió su rebaño [the sheepdog who lost his flock], must act according to the decisions they made after receiving the owl’s teachings. They must each follow their own path and transform their lives, turning the approaches they learned during their apprenticeship into habits.

Two strangers have to share a three storied house for a few days, both insisting on maintaining order and making themselves indispensable. A woman anxiously awaits the arrival of a younger man to liberate her from her boredom and frustration. Scott returns to England after his polar expedition but nobody welcomes him.

The internet is an extraordinary knowledge infrastructure and the first with a global range, a generator of a radically new phenomenon: a metaculture based on hypertext. Its emergence is changing human interactions and social movements.

Shortlisted for the prestigious Rómulo Gallegos Prize in 2005, this book is swamped, in equal parts, with innocence, cruelty and luxury. It is D.J’s journey to the, for him, exotic North, where the snow camps out in the mountains and red-bearded old men tell interminable stories in the heat of a bar they call The People. There starts the amazing adventure of a fleeing urbanite.