New Spanish Titles - Year 2015

  • DESPUÉS Y ANTES DE DIOS
    Before and After God
    Author:
    OCTAVIO ESCOBAR GIRALDO
    Publisher: EDITORIAL PRE-TEXTOS
    Topography, the circumstances of its foundation and prejudices determine every provincial city, as well as its piously hidden sins. Manizales is situated at over 2000 m above sea level, among Colombia's coffee growing mountains. Daughter of migrations and the civil wars of the 19th century, an old saying states that its 450,000 inhabitants are wedded to tradition, particularly the women.
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  • Don Quijote de la Mancha
    Don Quijote de la Mancha
    Quijote
    Author:
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    Publisher: Century Publishers s.l.
    Don Quijote de la Mancha is a novel written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. First published under the title El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Honorable Don Quijote de la Mancha) at the beginning of 1605, it is one of the most outstanding works of Spanish and world literature, and one of the most widely translated.
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  • EDEN
    Eden
    Author:
    ANDRÉS PASCUAL
    Agent: JULIO F-YÁÑEZ AGENCIA LITERARIA S.L.
    Mika hasn't had much luck recently: unemployed and without future prospects in Spain, she decides to leave everything and look for work in Brazil, the blossoming country of new opportunities. Soon after landing in São Paulo, a sudden power cut leaves the city's 20 million inhabitants in the dark.
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  • El ángulo ciego
    The Blind Angle
    Author:
    Luisa Etxenike
    Agent: Abiali Afidi S.L.
    In her first novel on the subject of Basque terrorism, Etxenike deals with the traumatic experience of political violence with great literary effect. Language and narrative experimentation are the vehicles which the author uses to express the complex emotions of the victims of a terrorist attack.
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  • El aroma del crimen
    The Scent of Murder
    Author:
    Xabier Gutiérrez
    Publisher: Editorial Planeta S.A.
    Vicente Parra, examining magistrate of the Ertzaintza Basque police force, based in the old quarter of San Sebastian, is assigned two apparently very different cases. The fashion designer Elena Castaño has been savagely stabbed in her mansion and, although the evidence suggests burglary, it soon becomes clear that it is a personal crime disguised as an attack.
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  • El Azul Sobrante
    Left Over Blue
    el azul sobrante
    Author:
    José Jiménez Lozano
    Publisher: Ediciones Encuentro
    El azul sobrante is a collection of short stories by José Jiménez Lozano, Cervantes Prize for Literature. Jiménez Lozano created adventures that journey to the lands of human passion or pause in the wounds opened by a higher form of love. The Avila resident describes what is hidden in the folds of the human heart and the secret sewn into the last openings of the interlining of history.
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  • EL CABALLERO DE LAS DOS BANDERAS
    The Knight of the Two Flags
    Caballero dos banderas
    Author:
    Pedro Miguel LAMET
    Publisher: GRUPO DE COMUNICACIÓN LOYOLA
    Pedro Miguel Lamet recreates with historical rigour and fascinating narrative style the life of the Peregrino de Loyola and, moreover, brings us close to the exciting Golden Age, allowing us to understand his turbulent youth, internal process, cultural climate and the young Ignacio's spirituality, who will leave his mark on the order of the Jesuits.
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  • El ciego en la ventana
    The Blind Man in the Window
    Author:
    Juan Antonio Masoliver Ródenas
    Publisher: QUADERNS CREMA S.A.
    Juan Antonio Masoliver Ródenas writes that nostalgia is a mirage that must be combatted because it takes up and idealises a past that most probably never existed, while constantly compelling us to give it shape.
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  • El comité de la noche
    The Night Committee
    Author:
    Belén Gopegui
    Publisher: A08116147
    Two women start a campaign against the trafficking and dealing in blood, in life. After losing her job in a Spain that seems to be heading nowhere Álex returns with her daughter to her parents' home.; from there she writes down her reasons for joining the Night Committee, an underground group that has decided to actively confront the barbarity of the present day.
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  • El espectador ideal
    The Ideal Spectator
    El espectador ideal
    Author:
    Héctor Izquierdo
    Publisher: DIBBUKS S.L
    Verónica León is an inspector of Homicides in Madrid. For the last couple of years she has been in a somewhat tortuous relationship with sub-inspector Roberto Vidal, who separated from his wife around the same time. During one of their occasional meetings, they are told that an old man has been murdered.
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