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  • El NILO AZUL. TESTIMONIO DE UN MUNDO OLVIDADO
    The Blue Nile. Traces from a forgotten world
    EL NILO AZUL
    Author:
    JAVIER GOZÁLBEZ
    Publisher: Editorial Revista Altaïr S.L.
    The Blue Nile provides over half the volume of water flowing from the Nile into the Mediterranean. Nevertheless, almost nothing is known about the basin it flows from, the people who live next to it, the adventures it has had. Javier Gozálbez set himself the challenge of discovering what lies beneath this silence and, like the explorers of old, he started at its source in Ethiopia.
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  • El niño malo cuenta hasta cien y se retira
    The Bad Boy Counts to a Hundred and Leaves
    Author:
    Juan Carlos Chirinos
    Publisher: Ediciones Escalera
    Shortlisted for the prestigious Rómulo Gallegos Prize in 2005, this book is swamped, in equal parts, with innocence, cruelty and luxury. It is D.J’s journey to the, for him, exotic North, where the snow camps out in the mountains and red-bearded old men tell interminable stories in the heat of a bar they call The People. There starts the amazing adventure of a fleeing urbanite.
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  • El niño que no quiso llorar
    The Boy Who Didn't Want to Cry
    El niño que no quiso llorar
    Author:
    José Antonio Jiménez-Barbero
    Here again, staring at the mirror, here again with same idea of taking his own life. In his clenched fist, Mum's sleeping pills, the only hope of escaping the hell his school mates make for him; his only reason to live the love he has for his little sister Teresa. Years of bullying at school have reduced Santiago to a shadow of himself.
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  • El niño y el pueblo perdido
    The Boy and the Lost Village
    El niño y el pueblo perdido
    Author:
    Pere Marti
    Publisher: ediciones del serbal
    The Spanish Civil War has been a source of literary inspiration almost since the moment it finished, and The Boy and the Lost Village is the latest book to draw on its history, set around the events of the Battle of the Ebro and the Fatarella mountains.
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  • El noi de Sarajevo
    the boy from Sarajevo
    El noi de Sarajevo
    Author:
    Jordi Cussà
    Publisher: Edicions Proa
    Dusko's twelfth birthday is the last one he spends at home, because then the Balkan war comes into his life. A child of Sarajevo and a mixture of all the ethnicities of the region, Dusko celebrates his 13th, 14th and 15th birthdays amid a background of struggle, hatred, revenge and lies - between neighbours. After those years, nothing can go back to how it was before.
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  • El noi del bus
    The Boy on the Bus
    Author:
    Aina Li
    Publisher: Grup 62
    Every afternoon Diana takes the bus home from school. One afternoon, she sits next to a really good-looking boy, but he has to get off at the next stop and they say good bye without exchanging names and telephone numbers.
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  • El Ocaso de los normidones
    The Decline of the Normidons
    Author:
    Sergio Llanes Romera
    Publisher: Ediciones Dokusou
    Auria and the Sforza dynasty are under threat from a rebellion forming within the senate itself. The conspiracy against the life of the Emperor unites some families while others remain loyal, and the situation unleashes a chain of ambiguities and conflicts that provoke the tension between the clans.
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  • El orgullo del dragón
    Dragon's Pride
    Author:
    Iria G. Parente y Selene M. Pascual
    Publisher: Nocturna Ediciones SL
    Viria is the land of men; Gineyka is the land of women. The differences between the two nations are notable. In Viria, the Lavalle brothers have their lives seemingly settled, Neith Sinagra scrapes by on the mean streets, and Arabella Medici is trying to get by without getting married.
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  • El otoño de la casa de los sauces
    Autumn at Willow Tree House
    El otoño de la casa de los sauces
    Author:
    Fulgencio Argüelles
    Publisher: Acantilado/ QUADERNS CREMA S.A.
    When Zigor, a mature man, a successful businessman and married to an aristocrat, finds himself facing a terminal illness, he decides to gather the seven members of the terrorist cell with whom he fought to overthrow the military regime that held power before the establishment of the Republic.
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  • El otro
    The Other One
    Author:
    Clara Tahoces
    Publisher: Minotauro
    Noel Villalta apparently has everything: love, money, social standing, friends… but despite this he can’t help feeling that something is missing. He can’t find himself. Sick of the way his life is going, he starts to commit seemingly senseless acts, even at risk to his own life. During one of these, Noel suffers a serious motorbike accident and loses his hand and forearm.
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