New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2009

  • 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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  • El Paraíso Recuperado (Historia libresca de un ladrón)
    The recovered paradise (Bookish story of a thief)
    Author:
    Róger E. Antón fabián
    Publisher: Fernando Fernández Villa
    To our knowledge, fiction tales have always served to publish books, while swiping books has not served to write fiction. Writer Róger E. Antón Fabián has used this formula to thread an easy-flowing, interesting story.
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  • El pecado de Mama Bayou
    Mama Bayou’s Sin
    Author:
    Joaquín Guerrero-Casasola
    Publisher: Lengua de Trapo
    Gil Baleares doesn’t have much going on in his life: a kidnapped father suffering from Alzheimer, a daughter who is perhaps not his own, a divorce, forty years of existence marked by alcohol, frustration and defeat, and a lot of memories from the time when he was a federal investigations agent in legendary Mexico City.
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  • El perro pastor que perdió su rebaño
    The Sheepdog That Lost His Flock
    Author:
    Consol Iranzo
    Publisher: Zenith
    Socri is a lovely sheepdog who loves his job and is loyal to his master. One day, the master decides to sell off the flock to a multinational, and Socri is left unemployed. He has a personal crisis and ventures out into the woods in search of Coach, following a little bird’s directions.
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  • El Pliegue Complejo. La Escalera.
    The complex fold. The stairs
    Author:
    María Carreiro Otero
    Publisher: Netbiblo
    The staircase, that complex fold, belongs to the system of architectural treatises as well as to that of manuals. The staircase responds to all of them, but also escapes them all, with a position of its own in the architectural process.
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  • El Príncipe de los Enredos
    Prince of Troubles
    Author:
    Roberto Aliaga
    Publisher: Edelvives
    Sometimes, a raven appears from behind a cloud, or behind a corner or in our group of friends. They are Princes of Trouble, experts in tangling situations. Masters of trickery and lies. It’s in our hands to make these beings go elsewhere to cause trouble.
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  • EL QUE APAGA LA LUZ
    Author:
    JUAN BONILLA
    Publisher: EDITORIAL PRE-TEXTOS
    El que apaga la luz, title taken from one of Somerset Maugham’s sentences, is a book full of incurable patients, obsessions that culminate in the worst of nightmares (insomnia) and whose only relief is suicide. Characters tormented by evil deeds of which they cannot repent, who try to find answers to justify their deeds but find only angst and uncertainty.
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  • EL REY DE LOS CRUZADOS
    KING DE THE CROSSED ONES
    Author:
    Rafael Borràs Betriu
    Publisher: FLOR DEL VIENTO EDICIONES, S.A.
    Rafael Borrás writes the historical chronicle of one of the most interesting periods of the history of Spain. The relation between Alfonso XIII, general Franco, and Don Juan Carlos de Borbón.  
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  • El sueño de Goya
    Goya’s dream
    Author:
    Alberto Urcaray
    Marta Rivera Ferner
    Publisher: Brosquil Ediciones S.L.
    Each of Goya’s masterpieces is like a dream: some are games, others are nightmares. For some unknown reason, a young man escapes the “The goose blind” and enters other paintings changing them a bit... well, quite a lot frankly. But where is Goya? Hush, hush... he is dreaming.
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  • El sueño de Picasso
    Picasso’s dream
    Author:
    Marta Rivera Ferner
    Publisher: Brosquil Ediciones S.L.
    When he was a child, Pablo painted two white doves. One day, he saw that only one was there. The other one had flown away. From that day, Pablo travelled around the world, drawing and painting while looking for his lost dove.
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