New Spanish Titles - Spring 2011 - L

When she was little more than a child going to look for water at the oasis, Maria (or Meryem)  could never have imagined how much her life would change. Out there in the Sahara, she was happy. Until the caravans stopped arriving and her father Yunan - better known as the Tuareg -  was forced to emigrate to find work.

There are moments in life when sadness overcomes you, wiping the smile from your face; melancholy makes you turn pale, your vision is blurred by a grey cloud, and you don't know why.

If poetry shouldn't worry about being beautiful or pleasant or seeking for truth; if poetry has to be painful, accompany our sleepless nights; if it is born in blotted notebooks while one walks up and down the city; if it must take us to the very edge of the precipice, "paralysed by the strange, vague doubt of continued existance", in short to possess "the raging force of lif

1936. Against the backdrop of a fratricidal war, in a village surrounded by mountains, the awful murder of a little girl unleashes the underlying violence in this remote location. A rural schoolmaster tormented by the past, a cruel priest and a village numbed by fear are the main characters in La noche feroz, a metaphysical thriller.