New Spanish Titles - Year 2013

  • EL EXTRAORDINARIO INGENIO PARLANTE DEL PROFESOR PALERMO
    Professor Palermo's Extraordinary Talking Device
    El extraordinario ingenio parlante del Profesor Palermo
    Author:
    Jordi Sierra i Fabra
    Publisher: LA GALERA
    At the beginning of the 20th century an orphan witnesses an impressive spectacle: a ventriloquist magician makes a metal puppet talk and move. But the child suspects that magic alone can't explain this extraordinary spectacle.
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  • El fotógrafo de cadáveres
    The Photographer of Bodies
    El fotógrafo de cadáveres
    Author:
    Julio Castedo
    Set during the First World War, 'El fotógrafo de cadáveres' tells the story of two protagonists: Stefan Adler, a brilliant
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  • El fruto del Baobab
    The Fruit of the Baobab Tree
    El fruto del Baobab
    Author:
    Maite Carranza
    Agent: Pontas Literary & Film Agency
    Lola, a 39-year-old pediatrician with a promising career ahead of her, has just broken up with her partner. Recently her wish to become a mother has led her to question the meaning of her life. At the doctor's surgery she meets Aminata, a Gambian woman who is younger than her, and mother to four children.
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  • El fuego de las sombras
    The Fire in the Shadows
    El fuego de las sombras, mitología vasca
    Author:
    Fernando Morillo; Xanti Rodriguez; Diabulus In Musica
    The 21st century. Your world. In lands watched over by Anboto, the sacred mountain of the Basques, one reckless god steals a march on the others. This is Gaueko, the Lord of the Night. The others are still sleeping. Silence! Do not wake the departed. Pray they do not open their eyes. Before the time of your legends, there were demonic beasts on stony hills and shadow beings throughout the night.
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  • El gusano del mezcal
    The Mezcal Worm
    Author:
    Miguel Sandín
    First and foremost I must apologise for having missed our meeting today, as you can guess death turns out to be a impediment of force majeure. You can also guess, because I never thought you looked stupid, that I shouldn't know such a thing now and I want to explain these things and other details which may be important, it's all down to you, that's why I'm writing you this letter.
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  • El inspector que ordeñaba vacas
    The Inspector who Milked Cows
    Author:
    Luis J. Esteban Lezaun
    IIgnacio AZCONA is a police inspector who receives a tip-off from an informer. Members of senior management in the police as well as several administration officials might be involved in a sordid prostitution ring based in Barcelona. Ignacio must carry out a secret investigation, away from the control of his bosses.
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  • El joven Nathaniel Hathorne
    Young Nathaniel Hathorne
    Portada "El joven Nathaniel Hathorne" de Víctor Sabaté
    Author:
    Víctor Sabaté
    A not-so-young man inspiring to be a writer, for whom routine and the necessity to make a living have spelt the end of various aspirations, discovers that one of his old texts from childhood has been plagiarised. How to get others to believe in what he says when he himself can't do so?
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  • El juego de la oca
    Snakes and Ladders
    El juego de la oca
    Author:
    Francisco Javier Martínez Bernal
    Publisher: Servicios Reprográficos Integrales, S.L.
    In 1965 there were a string of mysterious murders in the north of Spain that were never solved. They might have been directly linked to the sacrifices that the long-forgotten '“Snake Path” demanded of whoever dared to walk it. Now, 30 years later, the events are being repeated, and a young police inspector will have to pursue the troubled mind trying to relive this macabre game.
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  • El lago en las pupilas
    The Lake in Their Eyes
    Author:
    Luis Goytisolo
    Publisher: Ediciones Siruela, S.A.
    Investigating their respective family histories, Gloria and Marcel meet in Riofrío, a small mountain town which in the past was not spared the turmoil of civil war.
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  • El mar dels traïdors
    Sea of Traitors
    Author:
    Jordi Tomàs
    Publisher: c/ Peu de la Creu, 4
    In 1864, Antoni Riubò enlists as a doctor on board the brig Verge de Montserrat, a commercial ship making the crossing between Barcelona and the Americas, by way of Africa. When he gets to Sierra Leona, the young doctor discovers that the ship is ruled by a slave trader who is taking advantage of the voyage to take hundreds of Africans to America and sell them into slavery on the plantations.
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