New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2012

For centuries, popular stories have helped to answer the questions that man has asked himself. Stories demonstrate the complexity of emotions, offer means of combating adversity, give hope, consolation and courage, and preserve human values. This selection of 36 stories is just a sample of the rich heritage of stories and legends from the 5 continents throughout human history.

Commissioner Valtierra, a nostalgic, tango-loving native of Buenos Aires, is chief of the Political Section of the Buenos Aires police and has blood on his hands. A revolutionary group has condemned him to death for all the torture and murders in which he has been involved and to avenge their comrades.

Francisco Javier Mina (Navarra, 1789 – Mexico, 1817) was one of the heroes of the Mexican Independence. He took part in the War of Spanish Independence caused by the French invasion.

Poetry, and perhaps something more, has always beaten at the heart of all of Flavia Company’s books.  Here the full force of its pulse is felt. The why, the ‘secret’, of her immersion in the poem is revealed to us by the author herself in the form of a prologue. A journey, a monologue, memory and the present.