New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2011

  • Mi familia
    My Family
    Mi familia
    Author:
    Daniel Nesquens
    Publisher: Grupo Anaya
    In My Family the author presents a collection of stories about the members of a family: first the father, then the mother, the sister, the brother, Norberta the turtle, Daniel the grandfather…
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  • Muerte de un caballo
    Muerte de un caballo
    Author:
    Andrés Barba
    Publisher: EDITORIAL PRE-TEXTOS
    Read report: Muerte de un caballo [Death of a Horse]
    “Barba’s short novel is an intense examination of inner life and one’s conscious and subconscious response to situations, looks, gestures and words.”  (Rosalind Harvey)
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  • Mundo Twitter
    Twitter World
    Author:
    José Luis Orihuela
    Publisher: Alianza Editorial
    Those with a romantic vision of innovation and creativity may be surprised or even indignant that a technological tool which only allows you to exchange messages of 140 characters should have turned into one of the most powerful means of communication in history.
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  • Narraciones de la escuela
    school stories
    Narraciones de la escuela
    Author:
    Isabel Cantón
    Publisher: Davinci Continental
    21 of the best Spanish-language writers share their experiences of school, whether their own or from their imagination. They describe school in post-war Spain, with its lack of resources, the deprivation bordering on poverty and its coldness, but also the first loves and those friendships that would last a whole lifetime. There are also stories of school today and all its technology.
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  • Nueva historia del a democracia
    A New History of Democracy
    Nueva historia del a democracia
    Author:
    Francisco Rodríguez Adrados
    Publisher: Editorial Ariel
    With a few remaining exceptions, democracy is the widely accepted form of government, though with great variations in context and in risk. Its relationship varies with various political phenomena in a world that is globalised but also diverse and contradictory.
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  • O IMPOSIBLE DE DESATAR
    impossible to untangle
    O IMPOSIBLE DE DESATAR
    Author:
    Iván García Campos
    Publisher: Editorial Galaxia
    Happy families are all alike, but every family is unhappy in its own way.
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  • Objeto de poesía
    poetry object
    Objeto de poesía
    Author:
    Mercedes Villegas Andrino
    Publisher: Davinci Continental
    An intense, personal and profound book of poems. The central theme is passion, by way of an intimate feeling of solitude. Just when we think we've understood its content, we start to establish this passion and have to try and understand it afresh.
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  • One Night, A Dream
    One Night, A Dream
    Author:
    Gemma Lienas
    Publisher: Labutxaca
    Olga is a forty-eight year old biologist who often dreams about a stranger who gives her pleasure. Thirty-seven year old Mari Loli works as a supermarket cashier and daydreams that she is Esmeralda, who dances in public with a tender, loving man at her side.
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  • Otto: El nen que va arribar amb la neu
    Otto: The Boy Who Came with the Snow
    Author:
    Laia Longan
    Publisher: ANIMALLIBRES EDITORIAL S.L.
    Ever since Otto was born it hadn't stopped snowing in Immer. No one knew why. At first, everyone thought it was just a very long winter, but then they decided it was some kind of magic and they stopped hoping for spring. But one day, Otto discovers the reason for all this, and this forces his to make a choice about his future. It will be a diffficult decision that he has to make alone.
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  • Oxford 7
    Oxford 7
    Author:
    Pablo Tusset
    Publisher: EDICIONES DESTINO, S.A
    Spring, 2089: the whole world has heard of the disturbiances in the external university franchises. Demonstrations in New Berkely, protests in the Sorbonne Resseau and student riots throughout the Academic Ring.
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