New Spanish Titles - Year 2014

Irene was a happy child, in the only way a child could be happy during that period, scarred by war, poverty and fear. Even so, she never really understood the identity of the man and woman who sometimes came to visit and occasionally took her to the cinema or out for a picnic, a couple in whose company she always had to behave well and, particularly, never ask questions.

For the first time in a single volume, we present the trilogy that changed the course of Spanish literature. An ambitious project in which Art, with a capital A, takes the floor, in the form of hypnotic pieces of poetic prose and micro-stories with the evocative power of an old Polaroid, and with the collaboration of cartoonist and illustrator Pere Joan.

It is 1941. Young, beautiful Aurora leaves behind a tumultuous Spain and a tormented past to move to Mexico, where she takes a job as a nanny for the wealthy Vigil de Quiñones family. There she finds a very different atmosphere to the gloomy Spain she is fleeing from: dances, parties, great orchestras and, above all, a growing film industry whose stars compete with those of Hollywood.

'Solitud' was an immediate success with readers and was translated into various languages. One hundred years after its publication, this modern, startling novel is still just as relevant today. Considered one of the greatest works of Catalan literature ever written, 'Solitud' tells of the spiritual journey of a woman, Mila, who lives in the countryside.