New Spanish Titles - Year 2015

Last Night I Walked on Water is a narrative in two dimensions in which myths, chasms, heavens and hells collide. In the realm in which the characters of this novel move, the mysticism of vice is almost the same as that of virtue and the two seek the same elevation.

Could you give an unfaithful ex-boyfriend a second chance? And what if in doing so you lost the love of your life? Marga, a brilliant 30-year-old woman, watches her world teeter at the same time as she loses her job. What's more, Andrés, with whom she has shared more than a decade, leaves her for another woman.

in life, in landscape, in society, proud castles take precedence, dominating everything, while around them there are areas of shadow, miserable or charming. A romantic novel centring on two great characters, Every Castle and All the Shadows constitutes a formidable sizing up of contemporary Barcelona through its contradictions, its past, its tragedy and illusions.

The Cantar de mio Cid is an anonymous epic poem relating heroic deeds, freely inspired by the last years in the life of the Spanish knight Rodrigo Díaz el Campeador. It is the first long narrative of Spanish literature written in a romance language and is notable for the literary value of its style. It was composed – as is generally agreed by contemporary critics – around 1200.