New Spanish Titles - Year 2015

  • UN ARBOL CAIDO
    A Fallen Tree
    Author:
    Rafael Reig
    Publisher: TUSQUETS EDITORES, S.A.
    In 1979, a group of friendly families comment on the return of an old acquaintance who will disturb the life in their residential estate. They all know one another due to having been active in anti-Franco political parties.
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  • Un hombre que hacía retratos
    A Man Who Took Portraits
    Un hombre que hacía retratos
    Author:
    Daniel Isaacs (Seudónimo)
    Agent: Abiali Afidi S.L.
    Tarak is born in the middle of the 19th century, at the height of the Raj, to a poor family of textile workers. His passion and spirituality in the art of painting put him in the path of David Douglas, and adventurer and landscape photographer, who is on his way to Simla, in the north, where he hopes to set up a studio. Douglas shows Tarak the basics of photography.
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  • UNA MADRE
    A Mother
    Una madre
    Author:
    Alejandro Palomas
    Agent: Sandra Bruna Agencia Literaria S.L
    The portrait of a city that is welcoming and uncommunicative in equal measure, of a family united by the fragile bonds of necessity and love and the unique gaze of a marvellous woman at an extraordinary moment. At the age of 65, and after several failed attempts, Amalia has succeeded in seeing her dream come true: getting her whole family together for a New Year's Eve dinner.
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  • Una ola con sabor a pez
    A Wave that Tastes of Fish
    Author:
    Nuria Riera Carrillo
    Publisher: Bartleby Editores, S. L.
    A Wave that Tastes of Fish tells the life story of a 34-year-old woman, Mamen, whose experience on the margins leads her to solitude and isolation, a spider's web that will gradually slip away from her after spending a few days with a girl who lives in a lighthouse on the Mediterranean coast. A place where nothing and no one are what they seem.
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  • Valentina
    Valentina
    Author:
    Carles Soldevila
    Publisher: Edicions 62 S.A.
    This book, which revolves around the crisis of family relationships and the identity problem faced by the protagonist, a girl of 17 who watches the ideal world she has created crumble, revisits, in the heart of a well off Barcelona family, a series of literary motifs that go from Shakespeare's Hamlet to the theme of Electra.
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  • Vertigen
    Vertigo
    Author:
    Esperança Camps y Empar Marco
    Publisher: Sembra Llibres Coop. V.
    A Greek journalist who has suffered the close of ERT television directly experiences the intrigue and misery that surround the closure of Europe's second largest public television service, purportedly due to the economic crisis.
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  • Y el cielo era una bestia
    And the Sky was a Beast
    Author:
    Robert Juan-Cantavella
    Publisher: Editorial Anagrama S.A.
    Sigurd Mutt returns to Barcelona. Nearly thirty years have passed. Back then he was a young cryptozoologist determined, alongside his colleagues Belaire and Sjögren to unravel the mysteries of Hidden Naturalism and trace, against the dictates of official science, the track os dangerous animals and animals that no longer exist.
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  • Yo fui Johnny Thunders
    I Was Johnny Thunders
    Author:
    Carlos Zanón
    Agent: Casanovas & Lynch Literary Agency S.L.
    Francis, Mr Frankie, decides to return to the neighbourhood where he grew up. He had left there following a personal rock'n'roll dream that lead him to a brush with toxic and ephemeral fame. Now Francis wants to leave misery and drug addiction behind. But his old neighbourhood is a ruin through which wander his father, half-sister, first love and a few friends.
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