New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2010 - L

  • Lausana
    Lausanne
    Author:
    Antonio Soler
    Publisher: RDC AGENCIA LITERARIA S.L
    A woman travels from Geneva to Lausanne to visit her son. Through the window of the train, her memories slide inexorably over the lake’s surface. In spite of the passage of time, some memories retain their ability to harm us. Like the moment we begin to lose the person we love.
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  • Lisboa. Un melodrama
    Lisbon. A melodrama
    Author:
    Leopoldo Brizuela
    Publisher: Guillermo Schavelzon & Asociados Agencia Literaria
    Lisbon, November 1942. Portugal has received an ultimatum to go to war. The terror of Nazi occupation or Allied bombing takes over the city. In one long, single night, thousands of refugees from all over Europe wait for the boat Boa Esperança (good hope) to depart so they can save themselves.
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  • Lo que esconde tu nombre
    What Your Name Hides
    Author:
    Clara Sánchez
    Publisher: Destino Infantil & Juvenil
    Sandra has decided to go to live in a village on the east coast of Spain: she has left her job and, pregnant, spends the days trying to put off the decision of what to do with her life. On the beach, she meets a Norwegian couple in their eighties who seem to be the solution to Sandra’s problems.
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  • Los asesinos lentos
    The slow murderers
    Author:
    Rafael Balanzá
    Publisher: Ediciones Siruela, S.A.
    Valle and Cáceres were in a pop rock band in the 90s. They practiced together, played together, got drunk together. It’s been many years since they last saw each other when they meet in a café. They talk animatedly and remember, laughing, anecdotes from the past. Until Valle announces to his friend that he has decided to kill him and will do it soon.
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  • Los colores de Silvano
    Silvano’s Colours
    Author:
    Roberto Aliaga
    Publisher: Almadraba Editorial
    Once upon a time, many years ago, there was an old man who dreamed of flying like birds do: beyond the clouds, crossing the Earth from one end to the other… Flying so high that he would be able to touch heaven with his fingers. This is the story of Silvano, an old fisherman who spends the last years of his life in search of his dream… Because dreams are worth the effort.
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  • Los Hijos del Cielo
    The Children of Heaven
    Author:
    Luís Miguel Ariza
    Publisher: Ediciones Martínez Roca
    The China Seas, 1805. Travelling on a vessel about to be shipwrecked is Xavier Balmis, a visionary Spanish doctor obsessed with a mission that many consider madness: to take the vaccine for smallpox to China inside the bodies of orphaned children and so halt the advance of the most fatal disease known to man.
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  • Los jardines secretos
    The secret gardens
    Author:
    Georges Escribano
    Josep López
    Publisher: International Editors'Co.
    One of the recurring reasons couples give for splitting up is a lack of personal space. We all need a secret, emotional and creative garden where we can take refuge without running away, a sacred corner where we can find ourselves again, choose freely, and reinvent ourselves. A room of our own in which to desire without being judged, which is accessed through intimacy.
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  • Los orígenes de la guerra civil española
    The Origins of the Spanish Civil War
    Author:
    Pío Moa
    Publisher: Ediciones Encuentro
    Probably the most illuminating book on the events that led to the Spanish Civil War, written by a historian who has made a great contribution to the debate about a crucial period of Spanish history. The new edition, on the 70th anniversary of the end of the Civil War and ten years after the first edition, includes a prologue by Stanley G. Payne and a new epilogue by the author.
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  • Los Osos Ya No Comen Salmón
    The Bears No Longer Eat Salmon
    Author:
    Ricardo Cortines
    Publisher: LID Editorial Empresarial
    This book is divided into one hundred short chapters, concise in style and comprehensive in content. In the words of the author: This book has not been written by an economist, or a researcher, or anyone who earns a living teaching business administration classes. This book has been written in equal parts by experience and curiosity.
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  • Los que se echaron al monte
    The People Who Took to the Hills
    Author:
    Isidro Cicero
    Publisher: Ediciones Tantín
    Based on real events related to the members of the resistance who went into hiding in the north of Spain during Franco’s regime.
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