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  • UN HERMOSO HUEVO BLANCO
    a Beautiful White Egg
    Un hermoso huevo blanco
    Author:
    PAULA CARBALLEIRA
    Publisher: TRIQUETA VERDE, SL
    A Beautiful White Egg is a story about how joy can be reborn, about how life always finds a way, like the hen protagonist of the story: running, clucking, singing and filling all those around her with hope. Boys and girls are the first to chase the hen, plucky, eager to dance, but behind them come families, their own and others, the melée confusing the soldiers.
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  • Un hijo
    A Son
    Author:
    Alejandro Palomas
    Agent: Sandra Bruna Agencia Literaria S.L
    Guille is an apparently happy child, always smiling, but you only have to scratch beneath the surface to feel that there's a mystery somewhere. Guille is an introverted child with a permanent smile, and he's a great reader with a lot of imagination. He only has one friend, a girl. So far, so good.
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  • Un hogar sin par
    A Home Like No Other
    Cuento infantil Un hogar sin par
    Author:
    Marc Sans Rius
    Publisher: Esther García Ropero
    A simple, tender and funny story for children from three to five, which talks about friendship, family and good neighbourliness. It tells the story of a family of mice who have had to leave their home and are looking for somewhere new to live. They find an old boot in a pretty corner of the woods, near a river. The area's other inhabitants welcome them and help them to make a new home.
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  • Un hombre llamado Lobo
    Un hombre llamado Lobo
    Author:
    Oliverio Coelho
    Publisher: Duomo
    Agent: Guillermo Schavelzon & Asoc. Agencia Literaria
    Read report: Un Hombre Llamado Lobo (A Man Called Lobo)
    “Filled with original touches and surprising twists and turns, the book is a both a gloomy but playful metaphor for Argentina’s recent history, delving into themes such as the continually thwarted aspirations of the middle classes, corruption and patriarchal ideals, and also an exhilarating but weird existential road trip.” (Kit Maude)
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  • Un hombre normal
    A Normal Man
    Author:
    Eva Barro
    Publisher: Bohodón Ediciones SL
    Arturo, an experienced physics teacher, requests unpaid leave in order to both distance himself from reality analyse it from a distance in order to redirect his life after the extremes through which he has lived, to give his spirit respite and give his body a rest. The scientific laws with which he is very familiar are not enough to bring him peace.
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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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  • Un intruso en mi cuaderno
    An Intruder in my Notebook
    Author:
    David Fernández Sifres
    Butterflies invade the notebook of Mariano, a would-be astronaut, footballer and detective. They are of every shape, size and colour. But none of them can fly, because they’re drawn. He decides to find the mysterious creator of the butterflies. When he’s close to solving the enigma something changes: a new butterfly with a sad expression appears.
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  • Un jardín de poesía
    A Garden of Poetry
    A Garden of Poetry
    Author:
    Irene Verdú
    Noèlia Conca
    Publisher: Edicions del Bullent
    What better place to discover poetry than the garden? A place where time stands still, like a satisfied lizard, only to fly off as flighty as a ladybird. The bees, the frogs, the sparrows and the snails: all have their corners and their games, their poetry.
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  • Un largo viaje
    A Long Journey
    Un largo viaje
    Author:
    Daniel Chambers
    Publisher: Kalandraka Editora
    This is the story of two journeys that take place at the same time and that overlap in this sensitive and delicate book: a mother duck and her duckling set off on a migratory journey towards warm southern lands while a family who live in a war zone flee to the north.
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  • Un loro en mi granja
    Author:
    Pep Bruno
    Publisher: Editorial Luis Vives
    An unusual character lives on a farm; it’s a pirate’s parrot that sings and looks after the animals…
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