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Uk Panel´s Choice - Autumn 2009

We bring you the latest selection by our panel of experts. This time the panel of experts was formed by Christine Toomey (The Sunday Times magazine), Deirdre McDermott (Walker Books), Meike Ziergovel (Peirene Press), Gary McKeone (BCLT), Alexandre Middleton (Calder Bookshop), and Sonia Soto (translator).

The books have been reviewed by our network of independent readers. For this issue the readers were: Sonia Soto, Christina MacSweeney, Alexander Ibarz, Anella McDermott, Jason Wilson, Kit Maude, Laura McGloughlin, Nick Caistor, Lise Jones, Nelly Hermitant, Miranda France, and Anne McLean.

Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder

Author:
Patricia Geis

Publisher: COMBEL EDITORIAL S. A.

Read report: Alexander Calder: !Mira qué artista!

Art is now within range of even the youngest with this magnificient collection that combines different aspects: information, history, pictures activities, pop-ups, etc. All that is required to get young readers interested in the world of art, both classical and contemporary, in an amusing and original manner.

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Cautiva en Arabia

Captive in Arabia

Author:
Cristina Morató

Publisher: Plaza & Janes

Read report: Cautiva en Arabia

Marga d’Andurain was born in Bayonne, France into a middle-class Basque family. Rebellious and transgressive, she married a distant cousin, Pierre d’Andurain, at the age of 17 and together they set off for Argentina to seek their fortune. In 1925 they settled in Cairo where the Countess d’Andurain opened a beauty salon.

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El estatus

Author:
Alberto Olmos

Publisher: Lengua de Trapo

Read report: El Estatus

A woman arrives with her twelve-year-old daughter at the apartment where her husband wants them to live while he is away on his unusually long business trips. Very soon, they discover that they are alone in the building except for an angry and taciturn doorman, her husband’s strange employee who visits them repeatedly, and the cleaning lady.

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EL LIBRO DEL AMOR ESQUIVO

THE BOOK OF ELUSIVE LOVE

Author:
Rubén Abella

Publisher: EDICIONES DESTINO, S.A

Read report: El Libro de Amor Esquivo (The Book of Elusive Love)

An urban novel of criss-crossing lives that come together, written with a brilliant blend of registers ranging from the poetic to the humorous. A tale of love, lovelessness, the bliss of complicity and desire, and the impossibility of perpetuating what is probably no more than a creation of our own.

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El manuscrito de piedra

The Stone Manuscript

Author:
Luis García Jambrina

Publisher: Alfaguara

Read report: El manuscrito de piedra

Towards the end of the XV century, Fernando de Rojas, a law student at the University of Salamanca, will investigate the murder of a theology professor. Thus begins a complex web in which the situation of the Jews and converts intertwine.

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EL NAVEGANTE DORMIDO

THE SLEEPING SEEFARER

Author:
Abilio Estévez

Publisher: TUSQUETS EDITORES, S.A.

Read report: El navegante dormido

October 1977. In an old hardwood house situated on a secluded beach near Havana, the women of the Godínez family cover doors and windows and prepare for the arrival of a devastating hurricane that has been announced. In the old bungalow, enjoyed as unexpected inheritance from Dr. Samuel O.

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Juego, set y partido

Game, Set, Match

Author:
Jordi Sierra i Fabra

Publisher: Destino Infantil & Juvenil

Read report: Juego, Set y Partido

Sergio is an exceptional player both at tennis and football. But it’s time to make up his mind: he knows that, if he wants to go far, he’ll have to choose one and give up the other.

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La muerte en el altar

Der Tod auf dem Altar

Author:
Tomás Casademunt

Publisher: Editorial RM

Read report: La muerte en el altar (Death on the Altar)

Tomás Casademunt (Barcelona, 1967) is an exceptional artist who was forged by two decades as a photojournalist. In constant quest, he has produced some remarkable series of photographs, among which La muerte en el altar occupies a privileged place.

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La muerte en el impreso mexicano

Images of Death in Mexican Prints

Author:
Mercurio López Casillas

Publisher: Editorial RM

Read report: La muerte en el impreso mexicano

José Guadalupe Posada’s cavorting skeletons are for many people among the most emblematic images of Mexican art, representing a supposed mockery of and indifference to death that runs deep in Mexican culture.

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La voz de los flamencos. Retratos y autorretratos

Flamencos’ voice. Portraits and self-portraits

Author:
Miguel Mora Díaz

Publisher: Ediciones Siruela, S.A.

Read report: La voz de los flamencos: Retratos y autorretratos

An indispensable book about Flamenco, with 28 interviews, three authors dictionaries, more than 100 photographies and a CD with 20 tracks comprising a Century of Flamenco Art.

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