New Spanish Titles - L

  • L'altra
    The Other
    Author:
    Marta Rojals
    Publisher: RBA Libros, S.A.
    Anna, a graphic designer by chance, independent by necessity, introspective, constantly calculating, keeping the balance, putting the meter back to zero in order to keep going on. And Manel, Nel, Nelet, her companion, so close and so distant, so much need and so much buried rage.
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  • L'endemà de tot
    The Day After Everything
    L'endemà de tot
    Author:
    Lluís Calvo
    Publisher: RAYO VERDE EDITORIAL S. L.
    A novel about the abnormality of daily life of a group of friends who try to live and love as if everything were normal. Lluís Calvo writes an unusual love story that seeks a singular epic genre and hides in the corners of each and any of us. But it is not just about that, it is also about surviving change, darkness, fashionable bars and obsessions. In the end, it is about surviving daily life.
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  • La amante imperfecta
    The Imperfect Lover
    Author:
    Alfredo Cernuda
    Publisher: B-79227690
    "La amante imperfecta, a mixture of noir literture, love story and contemporary social critique, enthrals readers with its words, its brilliant descriptions, the texture of its characters, their lies, longings and ambitions.
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  • LA BELLA CUBANA
    The Beautiful Cuban
    Author:
    JOSÉ MARÍA CONGET
    Publisher: EDITORIAL PRE-TEXTOS
    New York, end of the 20th century. A young Spanish couple discover the great city, the contrast between the glitz and glamour of cinema and the harshness of daily life, the fragility of a personal identity still in construction and the greatest pain of love that seemed invincible.
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  • LA BUENA REPUTACIÓN
    A Good Reputation
    Author:
    Ignacio Martínez de Pisón
    Agent: MB Agencia Literaria S.L.
    Melilla, the nineteen fifties. Faced with the decolonisation of Morocco, the Spanish inhabitants of the Protectorate are forced to return to the Iberian Peninsula. North African Hebrews hope to stop this exodus by installing themselves in the recently created state of Israel. In this context of uncertainty, a middle aged couple worry about their future and that of their two children.
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  • LA CUINERA
    The Chef
    La cuinera
    Author:
    Coia Valls
    Agent: Sandra Bruna Agencia Literaria S.L
    Barcelona, 1771. Sixteen-year-old Constança leaves the distant city of Lima after the death of her father, a diplomat in the service of the Viceroy, to journey to Barcelona to join her grandparents.
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  • La Dama de Europa
    The Lady of Europe
    Author:
    Ara Antón
    Publisher: Ediciones Nowtilus
    Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of England and France, travels to Castile in the company of her friend and confidant, the Druid Blédhri, who wants to leave a written record of the queen's eventful life.
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  • LA ERA DE LOS MÍSTICOS
    The Era of the Mystics
    Era de los míticos
    Author:
    Mabela RUIZ
    Publisher: GRUPO DE COMUNICACIÓN LOYOLA
    Aisabeth is the Chosen One to free the human world from the slavery to which it has been subjected. For this she will have to find a precious stone and set it in the Key of Freedom that hangs from her neck.
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  • La isla de las mujeres tristes
    The Island of Sad Women
    Author:
    Elizabeth Mirabal
    Publisher: EDITORIAL VERBUM, S.L.
    Leaving the city, taking the train that goes every hour from Concha station and arriving at Puentes Grandes, the Borrero family's big rambling house next to the river Almendares. Meeting, and getting to know the (ingenuous and diabolical) secrets of this extravagant family; in their strange and tragic destiny.
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  • La mano del muerto
    The Dead Man's Hand
    The Dead Man's Hand La mano del muerto
    Author:
    Antonio Padilla
    Publisher: Tapia, Verzello & Pérez S.L.
    Barcelonta, Barcelona, the early sixties: anarchist urban guerillas are still alive and kicking, a headache for Franco's political police. The former Belgian Congo, in the same decade: European mercenaries are to be found in the war torn country. And some of those mercenaries are Spanish and their reasons for being in the Congo are as surprising as their personal stories.
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