New Spanish Titles - L

  • LETRAS AL CARBON
    Charcoal Letters
    Author:
    Irene Vasco/Juan Palomino
    Publisher: Editorial Juventud S.A.
    "Charcoal Letters" (Irene Vasco and Juan Palomino): Almost no-onemin the town of Palenque knows how to read. Señor Valendia, the owner of the shop, is one of the few people who do. When Gina starts to receive letters, which she supposes are love letters, her little sister decides to learn in order to be able to read these mysterious letters...
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  • Lili i Marlene
    Lili and Marlene
    Author:
    Anna Tortajada Orriols
    Publisher: Columna Edicions S.A.
    The disturbing story of a relationship. What happens to fairies who can't find true love? Lili believes in fairies, Marlene doesn't. Marlene and Lili, sanity and madness, invite us into the front row of the disturbing story, set in Barcelona, of the relationship between their mother—a Berlin teacher of Catalan—and "Mom's new girlfriend".
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  • Lo que está por venir
    What Is to Come
    Author:
    Pablo de Aguilar
    Publisher: ediciones del serbal
    Winter 1936: the rebel troops that have risen up against the Second Spanish Republic bomb Madrid. The republican government decides to start evacuating the most valuable paintings in the Prado.
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  • LOS BESOS EN EL PAN
    Kissing the Bread
    LOS BESOS EN EL PAN
    Author:
    Almudena Grandes
    Publisher: TUSQUETS EDITORES, S.A.
    A moving ensemble novel that follows a year in the lives of families, neighbours, parents, children, the young and the elderly, ordinary people who have the courage to keep going.
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  • Los jugadores
    The Players
    Author:
    Carlos Fortea
    Publisher: Nocturna Ediciones SL
    A series of individuals from various countries meet at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919: some Spaniards - a journalist nicknamed "Carte Blanche", a strange freelance reporter, a speculator and his lover - and others from the powers involved in the conflict.
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  • Los palimpsestos
    The Palimpsests
    Author:
    Aleksandra Lun
    Agent: THE ELLA SHER LITERARY AGENCY
    A brilliant satire about a writer who changes languages. An immigrant from eastern Europe is admitted to a Belgian psychiatric hospital and submitted to a linguistic reinsertion therapy to cure his ailment: not writing in his mother-tongue. But he's not the only patient in the asylum.
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  • Los perros y los cuchillos
    Dogs and Knives
    Author:
    Alicia Estopiñá
    Publisher: ediciones del serbal
    The chance discovery of an unusual, apparently worthless painting in the rubble is, in fact, the tip of the iceberg of a collection of extremely valuable, eccentric, irreverent works of art that a group of enlightened people hid during the War of Independence in a corner of the labyrinth of subterranean tunnels of Valderrobres, a town in the Tereul Maestrat.
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  • Luigi Bocherini. Vida de un genio
    Luigi Boccherini: The Life of a Genius
    Author:
    Antonio Cavanillas
    Publisher: EDITORIAL VERBUM, S.L.
    Luigi Boccherini: The Life of a Genius was awarded the Verbum Ibero-American Novel Prize in 2015, winning out over hundreds of high quality works.
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