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La Templanza The Temperance
Year: 2015
Publishing: Planeta Pages: 530
Nothing made Mauro Larrea suspect that the fortune that he had
built after years of toil and fearlessness would come crumbling
down with a deafening setback. Swamped by debts and uncertainty, he
gambles his last money in a daring move that lays before him the
opportunity of resurrecting. Till the unsettling Soledad Montalvo,
wife to a London wine merchant, comes into his life wrapped-up in
chiaroscuros to drag him to a most unexpected future. From the
young Mexican republic to the magnificent colonial Havana; from the
West Indies to the Jerez of the second half of the
nineteenth-century, when its wine trade with England turned the
Andalusian city into a cosmopolitan and legendary enclave. novel
that speaks of glories and defeats, of silver mines, family
intrigues, vineyards, cellars and splendid cities whose grandeur
faded in time. A story of courage before the adversities of a
destiny altered for good by the force of passion.
ONLY GREAT STORYS AWAKE GREAT FEELINGS
Mara Dueas is PhD in English Philology and was a full professor
at the Universidad de Murcia. She has also taught at American
universities, and has written academic papers and participated in
numerous educational, cultural and editorial projects. Time
In-Between was her first novel and had an overwhelming success,
having been translated into 35 languages and inspired a successful
television series all over the world. Her second novel The Heart
Has Its Reasons (2012) was one of the most sold books in Spain in
2013, following in its predecessors success. www.mariaduenas.es
El tiempo entre costuras (Time in
Between). 2009 Rights sold: PanMacMillan (ANZ), Planeta
(Brazil), Hermes (Bulgaria),Thinkingdom Media (China),Fraktura
(Croatia), Jota (Czech Republic), Gyldendal (Denmark), Toledo
(Estonia), WSOY (Finland), Robert Laffont (France), Blanvalet
(Germany),Patakis (Greece), Gabo (Hungary), Modan (Israel),
Mondadori (Italy), NHK Publishing (Japan), Samtoh (Korea), Zvaigzne
(Latvia), UAB Alma Litera (Lithuania), Kalimate ddition (Morokko),
Gyldendal (Norway), Swiat (Poland), Porto (Portugal), Polirom
(Romania), AST Publishing Group (Russia), Laguna (Serbia), Temas de
hoy (Spain), Columna (Spain-Catalan), Albert Bonniers Frlag
(Sweden), Thinkingdom Media (Taiwan), Weereldbibliotek (The
Netherlands), Pegasus (Turkey), Viking Penguin (UK), Atria
(USA).
A gifted novelist , emerging from our literary tradition to
renew the novel. - Juan Bolea, El Peridico
Mara Dueas
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Mercedes de Vega is an author with a degree in Sociology and
Political Science. She has lived and worked in New York, USA and
Barcelona, Spain. She is currently living in Madrid. De Vega
studied literature at the Complutense University of Madrid and has
participated in a number of writing workshops. She frequently
collaborates in literary magazines. De Vega has published a book of
short stories; Stories from a Seismograph, Ediciones Atlantis, and
various collective publications such as the short story
anthologies; Sofias Thread (2011), translated and edited by the
University of Sofia, Bulgaria; Madrid Hits the Hits Crisis (2012)
and Madrid Corruption (2013. The English Professor is her first
novel, published by Huerga and Fierro Editores. She writes usually
in her blog; Escribir, (Write) one of the most popular blogs
online. Her writing is highly recognized in online and in social
networks. www.mercedesdevega.com
Mercedes de Vega
Other titles: El profesor de ingls
(The English Teacher). 2013
Cuando estbamos vivos When We Were Alive
Year: 2015 (April)
Publishing: Plaza & Jans Pages: 528
A novel about love and destiny, memory and family secrets. In
the beginning of the Second Republic, Luca Oriol is a young
aristocratic wife in a society in full transformation, whose life
takes a 180-degree turn when she meets Francisco Anglada, a widowed
entrepreneur of Jewish origin, who purchases a home from the Oriol
family in the Calle Pintor Rosales. What starts out as a torrid
love story, gets all tangled up when Jimena appears on the scene,
Franciscos conflictive daughter. The relationship between Jimena
and Lucia, the latters double life and the Angladas hidden past
unleash a tornado of jealously, vengeance and betrayal from which
no one will come out unscathed. The love of Luca Oriol for a man
trapped in the past and in the need to tell the truth and justice
dispensed, feed this portrait of two lineages, based on real facts,
in a convulsive pre-war Madrid. With the richness of a master prose
writer, Mercedes de Vega delves in our most intimate history to
show that in all families there are hidden secrets which can turn
out to be lethal. When we were Alive is not only about a woman who
has to choose between reason and the heart, it is also the fresco
of a period and of a city that will decide the fate of its
protagonists.
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Sergi Dria (Barcelona, 1960) is a PhD in Communications
Sciences, journalist, and literary critic writing in the cultural
supplement of the ABC newspaper, as well as a professor in the
Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona and Ramon Llull.
He is the author of the book/report La Guineueta (1995) and Imatges
(Images) 1930, Barcelonins I moderns (2004). In 2005 he co-edited
with Sergio Vila-Sanjun, Paseos por La Barcelona literaria (Walks
Across Literary Barcelona) and in 2006 he reedited the travel book
by Capitn Enric Blanco, Boston-Barcelona. Besides this, he has
published the critical edition of the novels of Ignacio Agust, the
literary guide La Barcelona de Carlos Ruiz Zafn and the biography
of the author of Mariona Rebull, Ignacio Agust, El rbol y la ceniza
(The Tree and the Ash) (2013).
Sergi Dria No digas que me conoces Dont Say You Know Me
Year: 2015
Publishing: Plaza & Jans Pages: 343
The magazine Nuevo Mundo called him The champion of fraud; The
New York Times, The master falsifier; Le Figaro, The king of
Thieves; ABC, The new Fantomas, El Heraldo de Madrid, A high-fly
swindler The periods press reported on his feats; more than a
thousand frauds to different banks throughout the world and seven
cheated wives. Those who knew him or were ripped off by him swear
he dressed elegantly and when he disguised himself he did so with
class. So much so, that on several occasions he even passed himself
off for Alfonso XIII. No digas que me conoces, Dont Say You Know
Me, is an extraordinary novel that presents us with an enigmatic
character who revolutionized the Barcelona of twenties of the
previous century. The fascinating adventure of an out-of-the-common
man that turned fraud into an art form and who proved that the most
powerful banks of the period could be taken to the cleaners.
Other titles: La Barcelona de Ruiz
Zafn (The Barcelona of Ruiz Zafn) 2011 Translated into several
languages.
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Vctor del rbol was born in Barcelona in 1968 and worked for the
Catalan government between 1992 and 2012. He studied history in the
University of Barcelona. El abismo de los sueos (not published) was
a finalist in the prestigious Premio Fernando Lara in 2003. In 2006
he won the Premio Tiflos de Novela with El peso de los muertos. In
2011 he published La tristeza del samuri (Editorial Alrevs), which
has been translated to 10 different languages and has received very
positive reviews. In addition, La tristeza del samuri was awarded
Le Prix du polar Europen 2012 by the French publisher Le Pointe, an
award won previously by Philip Kerr and Arnaldur Indridason, among
others. http://www.victordelarbol.com/en/
Other titles: La tristeza del samuri (The
Sadness of the Samurai) 2012. Rights sold: Actes Sud (France),
De Fontein (The Netherlands), Mondadory (Italy), Club Matica
(Macedonia), Albatros (Poland), Companhia das Letras (Brazil), Trei
(Romania), Scribe (World English), Jingdongs Books (China).
Respirar por la herida (Breathing through the Wound) 2013.
Rights sold: Actes Sud (France), Sonia Draga (Poland), Iztok Zapad
(Bulgaria), Scribe (World English).
Victor del Arbol se sert des secrets d'une famille dchire par
les soubresauts de l'Histoire pour btir une intrigue impeccable, o
l'on meurt
beaucoup mais o l'on aime encore plus. - Toutes les vagues de
locan de Victor del Arbol, Le Magazine Du monde
Vctor del rbol
Un milln de gotas A Thousand Drops
Year: 2014
Publishing: Destino (fifth edition) Pages: 672
Gonzalo Gil is a lawyer who leads a life not akin to him, in an
ill-fated career, trying to dodge the constant manipulation of his
omnipresent father-in-law, an all-powerful character with a very
long shadow. But something is about to jolt that monotony. Three
years without news from her, Gonzalo learns that his sister Laura
has committed suicide in dramatic circumstances. Her death forces
Gonzalo to tense to unexpected boundaries the fragile thread from
which hangs his life as a father and a husband. Resolutely
implicating himself in the investigation that has led to his sister
to suicide, he will discover that Laura is suspected of having
tortured and murdered a Russian gangster who in the past had
kidnapped and killed her young son. But what looks like revenge is
only the beginning of a tortuous road that will drag Gonzalo into
unheard areas of his own and his familys past that he would rather
not face. He will have to delve deep into the fascinating past of
his father, Elias Gil, the great Resistance hero who fought
Fascism; the young Asturian engineer who travelled to the USSR,
committed to the Revolutions ideals, and who was subsequently
denounced and confined in the dreadful Isle of Nazino, and who in
turn will become a key character, admired and feared, in the
darkest hours of Spains history. Rights sold: Actes Sud (France)
(Second Edition)
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
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Flix J. Palma has been recognized by the critics as one of
todays most brilliant and original short-story writers and has been
awarded with the Gabriel Aresti and Miguel de Unamuno awards among
others. He has published the short stories El vigilante de la
salamandra (The Lizard's keeper, Pre-Textos, 1998), Las
interioridades (Interiors, Castalia 2002), and El menor espectculo
del mundo (The Worlds Smallest Show, Pginas de Espuma 2010). As a
novelist he has published the YA novel La hormiga que quiso ser
astronauta (The Ant that wanted to become an Astronaut, Quorum
2001), and Las corrientes ocenicas (The Ocean Currents, Algaida
2006 -winner of the 2005 Luis Berenguer Award for Novel). El mapa
del tiempo (The Map of Time, Algaida 2010 winner of the Ateneo de
Sevilla Award for Novel), El mapa del cielo (The Map of the Sky,
Plaza&Jans 2012) and El mapa del caos (Plaza&Jans 2014)
composed his Victorian Trilogy which is being translated into 25
languages. www.felixjpalma.com
First two titles of the trilogy: El mapa del tiempo (The
Map of Time) 2010.
El mapa del cielo (The Map of the Sky) 2012.
International rights sold: Rowohlt (Germany), Iztok Zapad
(Bulgary), Host (Czech Rep.), Shanghai Translation (China), Locus
Publishing (Taiwan), Sallim (Korea), Fraktura (Croatia), Gyldendal
(Denmark), Atria (USA), Sijthoff (The Netherlands), Europa
(Hungary), Scribe (Australia), Hayawaka (Japan), Cappelen Damm
(Norway), Sonia Draga (Poland), Planeta (Portugal), Trei (Rumania),
Corpus (Russia), Dereta (Serbia), Koridor (Turkey), Intrnseca
(Brazil), O Foofus (Estonia),Robert Laffont (France), Castelvecchi
(Italy), Harper Collins (UK).
New York Times bestselling author
Palma is a master of ingenious plotting. -Kirkus Reviews
A cross-genre masterpiece. -Associated Press
EL MAPA DEL CAOS The Map of Chaos
Year: 2014
Publishing: Plaza & Jans Pages: 672
What would you do, dear reader, to recover a loved one? Would
you be willing to go to the hereafter to find her, defying death
itself? But imagine that when you are about to embark upon your
journey, you find out that the world is in mortal danger. A
paranormal epidemic threatens to destroy it, and its salvation lies
within the pages of a mysterious book whose title is The Map of
Chaos. To go in search of your lost love, you will first have to
recover this book from the claws of the most feared villain that
you could ever imagine. And time is running out. But dont worry,
you are not alone in this adventure. You will have the priceless
help of Arthur Conan Doyle, the father of Sherlock Holmes, Lewis
Caroll, the author of Alices Adventures in Wonderland, and of
course H.G. Wells, whose Invisible Man may have very well escaped
from its pages, and right now may be reading above your shoulder.
Only they will be able to save the world using their imagination,
and show you that your lost love is not as far as you initially
thought. Perhaps she is waiting behind the mirror. Flix J. Palma
pays tribute to the detective novels in this his last installment
of his Victorian Trilogy. The Map of Chaos is an adventure full of
mystery and non-stop action, where its enigmatic pieces will fall
into place until creating a jigsaw puzzle which will reveal the
real nature of the universe. With the superb writing with which hes
accustomed us to, Palma mixes love and adventure, ghosts and
lycanthropes, humor and steampunk, in an explosive cocktail that
will seize readers from all over the world. Or as the mysterious
narrator of this novel would say, of all possible worlds.
Flix J. Palma BESTSELLING AUTHOR
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Laura Restrepo published her memoir The History of an Enthusiasm
in 1986, followed by the novels Isle of Passion, Leopard in the Sun
(Premio Arcebispo San Clemente 2002), The Angel of Galilea (Premio
Sor Juana 1997 and Prix France-Culture 1998), The Dark Bride, A
Tale of the dispossessed, Delirium (Premio Alfaguara 2004 and
Premio Grinzane Cavour, Italy, 2005), and No Place for Heroes
(2009). Her novels have been translated into twenty languages and
she has received numerous prizes. She presently collaborates with
El Pas newspaper, and teaches at Cornell University. She lives
between Mexico and the United States. She is considered by critics
as one of the most important voices in present-day Spanish-speaking
literature.
Laura Restrepo Laura Restrepo breathes life into a singular
amalgam of journalistic investigation and literary creation. Thus,
the wretchedness and violence that nest in the heart of Colombian
society are always present, but also there are her fascination with
popular culture and the play of her impeccable humor, of that
biting but at the same time tender irony that saves her novels from
any temptation toward pathos or melodrama, and infuses them
with unmistakable reading pleasures. - Gabriel Garca Mrquez
Other titles: Dulce compaa (The Angel of
Galilea) 1995. Prix France-Culture (France) Premio Sor Juana
(Mexico). International rights sold: Alfaguara (Spain & Latin
America), Rayo (USA Spanish), Crown/Vintage (USA), Wolfhound (UK),
Livani (Greece), Rivages (France), Presena (Portugal), Ulpius-Hz
(Hungary), Narodna Knjiga (Serbia), Viva/Wangels (Denmark), Record
(Brazil), Humanitas (Romania), Krger (Germany / Rights reverted),
AST (Russia), Juritzen (Norway), Woongjin (Korea)
Delirio (Delirium) Premio Alfaguara
de Novela 2004 and Premio Grinzane Cavour 2006. International
rights sold: Alfaguara (Spain & Latin America), Nan A. Talese
Books (USA, world English), Harvill Secker (UK), Calmann-Levy
(France), Feltrinelli (Italy), Amber (Poland), Companhia das Letras
(Brazil), Presena (Portugal), Rata (Bulgaria), China Times (Taiwan,
complex characters), Like (Finland), Random House (Germany/Rights
reverted), Hakibbutz Hameuchad (Israel), Sijthoff (The Netherlands
/ Rights reverted), Humanitas (Romania), AST (Russia), Alfa-Narodna
(Serbia), Dogan (Turkey).
Hot Sur
Year: 2012 Publishing: Planeta
Pages: 560
Mara Paz is a young Latina who, like many others, has reached
the United States in search of utopia. But her American dream turns
into a nightmare when she is accused of murdering her husband, a
white policeman, and is sent to jail. However, Mara Pazs life will
take a most dramatic turn when she discovers that the true horror,
that which will put her mettle to the test, awaits her on the
outside. Laura Restrepos action-packed thriller grips us from the
very first page. Beautifully put together and although terrifying,
also great fun. A tribute to women, and a biting critique to the
western worlds capitalist system and its fake dreams of prosperity.
Rights through the Kerrigan Agency: Brazil, France, Germany,
Portugal, The Netherlands Rest of territories: The Colchie Agency
([email protected]) Rights sold: Bertrand (Brazil), Planeta
(Spain & Latin America), Amazon Crossing (World English)
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Reyes Caldern is PhD in Economics and Philosophy, a professor
and first vicedean of the Faculty of Economics Sciences and
Business at the University of Navarra. She is a visiting professor
at the Sorbonne and at the University of Berkley. Columnist and
usuall lecturer, she combines her academic work with writing. Reyes
Caldern is author of Ego te absolve (Ego your absolved), Gritos de
independencia (Shouts of ndependence), and Las lgrimas de Hemingway
(Hemmingways Tears). Los crmenes del nmero primo (The Crimes of the
Prime Numbers, 2008) became a best seller with more than 50.000
sold copies in Spain. It is her first novel in which judge Lola
McHor appears, followed by El expediente Canaima (The Canaima File,
2009), El ltimo paciente del doctor Wilson (Dr. Wilsons Last
Patient, 2010) and La venganza del asesino par (The revenge of the
even number, 2012).
Other titles: Los crmenes del
nmero primo (The Crimes of the Prime Number). 2008. Rights sold:
Muza (Poland), Bertrand (Brazil)
El expediente Canaima (The Canaima file). 2009. Rights sold:
Muza (Poland)
El ltimo paciente del doctor Wilson (Dr. Wilsons Last Patient).
2010
La venganza del asesino par (The revenge of the even number).
2012
El jurado nmero 10 (The jury number 10). 2013
Tardes de chocolate en el Ritz (Chocolate evenings at the Ritz)
2014
La puerta del cielo The heavens door
Year: 2015
Publishing: Planeta Pages: 448
Before disappearing along with her American assistant, the
astrophysicist, Lalo Mgica informs one of his neighbors that he has
found the clues to pry open the gates of heaven. Gerardo Vilela, a
simple school teacher, wins a scholarship that takes him from Lugo
to Madrid. When the enigmatic neighbors of number 12, rent out
Mgicas old place to him, he feels happy. But the attic hides
something for him: a record signed by Pilate that narrates another
disappearance that took place in Judea on the year of Christs
death. With twenty centuries of difference, both disappearances
seem to be strangely related. With the help of a Basque exorcist
and his secretary, Gerardo decides to follow the trail. Demons,
witches, mediums. Reyes Caldern presents a passionate game of
truths and lies that will raise issues that have worried human kind
since the beginning of time: does heaven and hell exist? And the
devil? What is on the other side?
Reyes Caldern
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Juan Bolea (Spain, 1952) has a degree in History and Geography,
though he has been working as a journalist for twenty years. He
started his literary career with the short novel El palacio de los
jardines oblicuos (The Palace of the Slanting Gardens), which
received the Ciudad de Alcal Award in 1981. While directing
cultural affairs for the city of Zaragoza, he promoted rock
concerts an experience from which he drew the inspiration for
writing: El manager (The Manager, Ediciones B 2001). With Los
hermanos de la costa (The Brothers from the Coast, Ediciones B
2005), Bolea began the successful series rotagonizing the deputy
inspector Martina de Santo, which was followed-up with La mariposa
de obsidiana (The Obsidian Butterfly, Ediciones B 2006), Crmenes
para una exposicin (Crimes for an Exhibition, Ediciones B 2007), Un
asesino irresistible (An Irresistible Assasin, Ediciones B 2009)
and Orqudeas negras (Black Orchids, Espasa Calpe 2010).
Other titles: La melancola de los
hombres pjaro (The birdmen melancholia). 2011
Plido monstruo (Pale monster). 2012
El oro de los jbaros (The jbaros gold). 2013
Juan Bolea
Parecido a un asesinato Something like a murder
Year: 2015
Publishing: Martnez Roca Pages: 280
With great psychological depth and a unique plot, Juan Bolea
offers his readers a psychological thriller through the main
character of the strict Elena Enciso, a Gijon gallery owner with a
complicated life who has fallen on hard times. The business she
inherited from her father is in financial difficulties; her
ex-husband accosts, threatens and blackmails her; her stepson of
15, Alex, belonging to her second husband, is developing a
worrisome behavior that is starting to become dangerous. Advised by
her best friend, a prestigious psychologist, when Alex suffers a
new crisis, Elena decides to take refuge with the child in an
isolated village in the Peaks of Europe, where it wont be long till
tragedy strikes.
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Carlos Aurensanz received a veterinary degree from the
University of Zaragoza and works in the public health
administration. Although his interest in History is not recent, it
was, however, on reading the Muqtabis that he felt a revelation.
This 1000-year Arab chronicle, in which the historian Ibn Hayyan
retells, among other things, the fascinating events that took place
in the authors home town of Tudela, at the time, a tumultuous
period. Three years of research and work on this moment in History,
bore Banu Quasi, a trilogy on the frontier of Al Andalus.
Other titles: Banu Quasi. Los hijos
de Casio (Banu Quasi. The sons of Casio. 2009
Banu Quasi. La guerra de Al ndalus (Banu Quasi. The War of
Al-Andalus). 2011
Banu Quasi. La hora del califa (The Califas hour). 2013
Carlos Aurensanz
La puerta pintada The painted door
Year: 2015
Publishing: Ediciones B (Second Edition) Pages: 280
Year 1949. The discovery of a body beside the river is about to
turn upside down the life of the inhabitants of Puente Real, a
quiet provincial postwar city. It is only the first of a series of
strange crimes that are going to change forever the life of Don
Manuel, the forensic doctor in charge of the investigation. Year
1936. The Civil War has broken out. Much to his regret, Salvador, a
printer who sympathizes with left-wing causes, and that of his
wife, Teresa, teacher at a Republican school, find themselves
inexorably drawn towards tragedy and death. The main characters of
these two moments weave in a masterly manner a story that is in
itself a thriller, but also a novel of mores that paints the closed
society of the postwar years, without avoiding the crude drama of
the Civil War and subsequent repression. It includes, besides,
typical elements of Gothic fiction, such as the main stage where
the plot unfolds: the cathedral of Puente Real, the bell ringers
abode on the cathedrals roof and, especially, its wonderful
Judgment Gate, on which are revealed, dramatically sculpted in
stone, the punishments that await the sinners. In the midst of all
of this, an unlikely love story ends up forcing its way through to
lead us to the final outcome.
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Marcelo Lujn was born in Buenos Aires in 1973 and lives in
Madrid since early 2001. He has published the following short
stories: Flores para Irene, (Flowers for Irene), En algn cielo (In
Some Sky), and El Desvio (Detour), and the poetic prose books:
Arder en el invierno (To Burn in Winter) and Pequeos pies ingleses
(Small English Feet). And the novels: La mala espera, (The Bad
Wait), Moravia (Moravia), and Subsuelo (Subsoil). Some of his works
have been translated, becoming part of the reading promotion
campaign and awarded several prizes, such as the Premio Santa Cruz
de Tenerife 2003, Premio Cuidad de Alcal de Narrativa 2006, Premio
Kutxa Ciudad de San Sebastin de Cuento en Castellano 2007, and the
Ciudad de Getafe de Novela Negra 2009.
Subsuelo Subsoil
Year: 2015
Publishing: Salto de pgina Pages: 240
A live body that is changed by a corpse. A pool. A flash. A
swamp. And the twins, who share a secret that does not seem easy to
escape from. Like a murmur beneath the centenary earth, adolescent
indifference can be truncated by the waters stillness; hardly an
instant within that night that transpires venom. Family, memories,
past. Ants. The hidden roots that are always present and so active:
pressing the sentences muscle. Like the two-handed pulse that
forces suicidal solutions. Like the umbilical cord that unites and
separates, that ties and squeezes. Till death. Till guilt. Two
summers are enough for the valleys plot to become the stage of a
perfect emotional torture.
Marcelo Lujn
One of the brightest writers of his generation. - Ana Mara
Shua
A reliable narrator and important writer. There are not that
many that
combine both qualities. - Lorenzo Silva
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Andrs Prez Domnguez
Andrs Prez Domnguez is the author of the novels Los perros
siempre ladran al anochecer, Dogs Always Bark at Nightfall (2015),
El silencio de tu nombre, The Silence of Your Name (2012), El
violinista de Mauthausen, Mauthausens Violinist (2009), Premio
Ateneo de Sevilla and runner up to the Premio Espartaco en la
Semana Negra de Gijn, El sindrome de Mowgli, Mowglis Syndrome
(2008, Premio Luis Berenguer), El factor Einstein, Einsteins Factor
(2008), and La clave Pinner, Pinners Code (2004, runner up to the
Memorial Silverio Caada at the Semana Negra de Gijn); the short
novels Los mejores aos, The Best Years(2002) and Duarte (2002); the
short stories El centro de la Tierra, The Center of the Earth
(2009, runner up to the Premio Setenil to the best short-story
published in Spain and Estado provisional, Temporary State (2001),
and the story Ojos tristes, Sad Eyes (2001).
Best-seller
El violinista de Mathausen
Mauthausens Violinist
Year: 2009 Publishing: Algaida
Once upon a time on subway station I saw a young couple dancing
a waltz on the platform, without music, unaware of everything, as
if no one were looking at them.
The image was so powerful that it kept haunting me until I wrote
this novel: The Violinist of Mauthausen is their story.
Andrs Prez Domnguez
Los perros siempre ladran al anochecer The Dogs Always Bark at
Nightfall
Year: 2015
Publishing: Alianza Pages: 168
Clara and Jorge have just moved into a residential area because
life with the neighbors where they previously lived was unbearable.
They are hoping everything will be different now, but they carry a
secret which they cannot shake off and, although their new
neighbors welcome them with open arms, they will soon discover
terrible things about their past that will open an unsurmountable
rift between them. The Dogs Always Bark at Nightfall is a thriller
that can be read in one sitting but which at the same time throws
light on the human condition, the misgivings that weight down ones
existence and the difficulty of burying the past to start all over
again.
A writer capable of creating stories which seemed foreign to
Spanish fiction, without either abandoning the identifiable
settings or the effort at achieving a decidedly
literary heartbeat. -Jos Mara Merino, Mercurio
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Antonio Manzanera
The most reliable expression of the intelligence services during
the Cold War.
- About The Muller Report, Juan Martin Roy Ex-member of the
Intelligence Division of CNI (National Inteligence Center,
Spain).
La tercera versin The Third Version
Year: 2014
Publishing: Umbriel Pages: 320
In August of 1985, in the final throes of the Cold War, a KGB
cornel by the name of Vitaly Yurchenko shows up at the American
embassy in Rome, wanting to defect. For the CIA it is a godsend:
Yurchenko is the highest ranking official to have fallen into their
hands. He is immediately taken to Washington in a ghost flight.
However, three months later, Yurchenko eludes his CIA handlers and
shows up at the Soviet Embassy in Washington claiming to want to
return to Moscow. The affair baffles all the intelligence agencies.
The Americans believe they failed to properly treat the coronel,
and this why he has decided to return home. The Soviet version, on
the other hand, is that Yurchenko was a fake defector sent to fool
the CIA
Antonio Manzanera has a doctorate in Economy, MBA and is very
fond of entrepreneurship. In 2010 he published in Ediciones Deusto
the manual; Finances for business ventures, which is in its 3rd
edition and was published by Booket in a pocket edition. His
professional life has been as an economist in both the private and
public sectors. After residing for several years in other countries
he returned to Spain, where he divides his free time between
family, helping young business ventures and mystery novels. His
novels are: The Mller Report, Umbriel (February 2013), The Smooth
Surface of the Butt, Umbriel (October 2013) and The Third Version,
Umbriel (october 2014).
Other titles: El informe Mller(The
Mller Report) 2013.
La suave superficie de la culata (The Smooth Surface of the
Butt) 2013.
ESPIONAGE NOVELS
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Javier Sierra is one of contemporary Spanish writers with
greatest international projection. In 2006, his novel, The Secret
Supper, became the number six-most sold book in the United States,
according The New York Times prestigious ranking. He was the first
Spaniardand till now the only onehaving such sign of recognition
and, as a result, his books have been published in more than forty
countries. Novelist, traveler, researcher Sierra, is, essentially,
a seeker of the truth that hides in the most recondite places. His
great merit is his innate capacity to interpret historys small
details from an astonishing perspective. www.javiersierra.com
Other titles: El maestro del Prado (The Master
of the Prado). 2013 International rights sold: Planeta (Brazil),
Sonia Draga (Poland), RAO (Romania), AST (Russia), Atria (World
English).
La cena secreta (The Secret
Supper). 2004 International rights sold: Planeta (Brazil), Ast
Publishing (Russia), Ulpius (Hungary), Tyto Alba (Lithuania), Joong
Ang (Korea), Plon Editions (France), De Bezige Bij (Netherlands),
Laguna (Serbia), Blanvalet (Germany), Longanesi (Italy), Ikar
(Slovenia), Euromedia (Czech Republic), Hermes (Bulgary), Atria
(World English), Sonia Draga (Poland), Shanghai 99 (China) and
other 20 countries
Javier Sierra has a particular talent for mixing science and
occultism, theological enigmas and mundane plots, to solve ancient
mysteries and to understand artworks.
- Il Messagero
Make art history palatable and exciting for a large audience. -
Los Angeles Times
Javier Sierra
La pirmide inmortal The Immortal Pyramid
Year: 2014
Publishing: Planeta Pages: 352
Napoleon Bonaparte became the most powerful man of his time and
was a step away from dominating all of Europe. A little earlier on
he led a hardly unheard military and scientific campaign in Egypt
that totally changed his mind. Why did he spend an entire night,
all by himself, inside the Great Pyramid? What happened there? How
did that episode alter his destiny? An original novel that, besides
revealing an almost unknown historical episode in Napoleon
Bonapartes life, allows us to submerge into Javier Sierras profound
mind. THE GREAT PYRAMID: AN IMMORTALITY MACHINE?
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
HISTORICAL FICTION
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Christian Glvez Based on historical facts, Glvez writes a
fiction in which elements of the historical novel, the thriller and
the biographical novelall intermingle.
- La Voz de Almera
Christian Glvez (Madrid 1980) is an actor and television
quizmaster. His first role was at the age of fifteen in an episode
of the television series (Mdico de Familia) Family Doctor. Later on
he excelled as a reporter in the program (Caiga quien Caiga) Let
the Chips Fall wherever they May. He presently hosts (Pasapalabra)
The Alphabet Game, which is broadcast in Telecinco channel. He is
the author of the books: Scoundrels in the World (Espasa, 2010),
May History Accompany You (Espasa, 2011) and Your Talented
(Alienta, 2013). To Kill Leonardo da Vinci (Suma, 2014) is his
first novel. http://christiangalvez.com/
Matar a Leonardo da Vinci To Kill Leonardo da Vinci
Year: 2014
P Publishing: Suma de Letras (fourth edition) Pages: 425
Everyone admires the genius, few know the man Fifteen-century
Europe is in the midst of conflicts in which the Papacy, the
Italian States and the neighboring kingdoms are involved, whilst a
movement known as the Renaissance begins to stand out in all
artistic disciplines. One of the most outstanding nucleus of this
cultural explosion is the Republic of Florence, governed by the
Medici. There, a young Leonardo da Vinci ends up in a dungeon as a
result of a false accusation of sodomy. After two months of
interrogations and cruel tortures, the promising artist regains his
freedom thanks to Lorenzo de Medicis --known as the Magnificent--
direct intervention. Wounded in his flesh and soul, Leonardo tries
to recover the heartbeat of his artistic career. However, his
phenomenal talent and the growing recognition towards his work are
not enough to placate the longing for vengeance for the received
torments. From then on, the search for the identity of the
anonymous denouncer and the indelible memory of his jailers
intermingle with his artistic achievements which will end up
dazzling the world. Till a new menace looms over him, this time
summed in a categorical sentence: Death to Leonardo da Vinci.
International rights sold: Laguna (Serbia)
Upcoming title! (Non fiction)
La perspectiva Da Vinci Da Vincis Perspective
Year: 2015 Publishing: Editorial Crculo Rojo
These pages will reveal all theories that scholars , historians
and art experts have developed around the image of the best known
polymath of the history of mankind: Leonardo Da Vinci.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
HISTORICAL FICTION
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Juan Jos Rodrguez was born in 1970 in Mazatln, Sinaloa. He
graduated in Communication in the Universidad Autnoma de Sinaloa.
Presently he works at the same university as Executive Assistant of
the Cultural Programme. He is also member of the Comitee of several
Mexican magazines, as well as being active as free-lance
journalist. He has published the book of short stories Con sabor a
limonero (1988), and the novels El nufrago del mar amarillo (1991),
Asesinato en una lavendera china (1996), El gran invento del siglo
XX (1997), and Mi nombre es Casablanca (2003). He has won some
literary awards, among which the Premio Nacional de Poesa "Ignacio
Manuel Altamirano" (1989), Premio Estatal de Crnica (1997), and the
Premio Nacional de Cuento "Gilberto Owen" (2002).
Other titles: Mi nombre es
casablanca (My name is Casablanca). 2003
La casa de las lobas (The wolves house). 2005
La novia de Houdini Houdinis Girlfriend
Year: 2014
Publishing: Ocano Pages: 184
A prodigy of the imagination that captures the reader from the
very first chapters. Pasion, rivalry and magic. It is not the first
time that Juan Jos Rodriguezs talent makes us believe that the city
of Mazatln is the center of the universe. That is where Antonio de
Orsini defies fate, infallible knife thrower; Shackleton, who lives
with the dead; the great magician Lorenzo Ludovico, who learnt the
secrets of the trade on the main stages of Europe and North
America. And among them, Floris, the only illusionist in the world
capable of escaping from Harry Houdinis very arms. In order to win
her over a young Mexican is willing to wager his life against odds
that are so great that they are invisible. A wonderful story of
love and magic by one of Mexicos most fantastic writers.
Juan Jos Rodrguez In this legend of wandering magic, Juan Jos
exerts with a smile the power of words,
making writing into a port of light from which real charms
emanate where at first there only seemed to be tricks. And he turns
every reader into a passionate apprentice
of magic. - Alberto Ruy Snchez
LITERARY FICTION
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Jorge Galn (El Salvador, 1973) is a poet and writer. He is an
arts and letters graduate of the Universidad Centroamericana Jos
Simen Caas (UCA). He has received several literary awards, both
national and internationally, among the most outstanding are:
National Poetry Prize (1996, 1998 and 1999), National Prize for
Short Story, organized by the National Counsel for Arts and Culture
of El Salvador CONCULTURA, and Gran Maestre of National Poetry of
El Salvador (2003 and 2006). Published Books: The Unending Day
(Direccin de Publicaciones e Impresos de El Salvador, 2004.) A Very
Long Spring. Bilingual edition French-Spanish. Coleccin Premio
Charles Perrault, Alianze Franaise, El Salvador. Tuesday Afternoon,
in the collection of the Premio Hispanoamericano de Quetzaltenango,
Guatemala, 2004 and the novel The Room at the end of the House,
Valparaiso, 2013.
La habitacin al fondo de la casa The Room at the End of the
House
Year: 2013
Publishing: Valparaiso Pages: 224
After begetting the last of his three kids, an old man dies on
top of the body of a young woman, initiating a tragic and wonderful
lineage. A century of life of El Salvador from Magdalenas vantage
point, that extinguishes in a bedroom in which she reminisces about
magical events, such as the story of the boy who walked on the
waters of a river, the curse of a young girl whose wishes will come
to pass, the return of a man who worked in the construction of the
Panama Canal to meet the love of his life, or the first murders of
a war that would end up being the daily anguish of the worlds most
dangerous country. A novel of true love pierced by misfortune.
Rights sold: Bertrand (Brazil), DVA (Germany), Psichogios (Greece),
Mondadori (Italy), Wereldbibliotheek (The Netherlands)
Jorge Galn An extraordinary game of balances, a brilliant
literary web of lights
and shadows that will make the reader shudder.
- Almudena Grandes
LITERARY FICTION
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Alonso Cueto is one of the most prolific Peruvian writers, not
only because of the natural frequency of his stories and novels,
but also because he has turned Limas middle class into a fluid and
passionate space for exploration. He has written more than a dozen
books of narrative, between novels and short stories. Some of his
most outstanding works include, La batalla del pasado (The Battle
of the Past, Alfaguara), El tigre blanco (The White Tiger, Planeta
1985 - Viarocha Award), Amores de invierno (Winter Loves, Planeta
1994), El vuelo de la ceniza (The Flight of Ashes, Seix Barral
1995), Plido cielo (Pale sky, Peisa 1998; Norma 2010), Demonio del
medioda (Noon Devil, Peisa 1999) and Grandes miradas (Wide Sights,
Anagrama 2005), which has been film adapted by Francisco Lombardi
in Mariposa Negra (Black Butterfly). Alonso Cueto has been awarded
with the 2005 Herralde Award for his novel La hora azul (The Blue
Hour).He is also author of the novels El susurro de la mujer
ballena (The Woman Whales Whisper), 2007, finalist of the
Planeta-Casa Amrica award for narrative, La venganza del silencio
(The Revenge of Silence, Planeta 2010), and Cuerpos secretos
(Secret bodies) He has also received the German Award Anna Seghers
for the bulk of his work, as well as the 2002 Guggenheim
Foundations Fellowship for Writers. His work has been translated
into several languages.
La Pasajera The Passenger
Year: 2015
Publishing: Seix Barral (Per) Pages: 130
The war with Sendero Luminoso (The Shining Path) has left scars
in Arturo and Delia. Both wish to forget what they did and what
they were forced to do in Ayacucho, while trying to rebuild their
lives in Lima, a city determined to remind them that their wounds
are still open. He is now a taxi driver and she a hairdresser, but
what they really are deep down is marked by their destinies and
their dreams, and with how they cope with their blame and seek
forgiveness. In The Passenger, Alonso Cueto continues with his
search in what he began with The Blue Hour: to plummet the horror
of political violence, however, not head on but rather through the
scars that it leaves in peoples bosoms. And he does so with a pair
of tools he handles exceptionally well: the suspense proper to
thrillers and the profound psychology of the realist novel.
Alonso Cueto
La pasajera is a thriller that manages in a perfectly way
suspense fees from the beginning up to the end. Cueto puts in La
pasajera the same amount of
exact ingredients as he did in the acclaimed novel La hora azl.
- El Comercio de Per
LITERARY FICTION
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Nahum Montt was born in Barrancabermeja (Colombia) in 1967. His
writing career began in 1967 with Midnight Dreams (1999). His
second novel, El Eskimal y la Mariposa The Eskimo and the
Butterfly, was awarded the Premio Nacional de Novela in 2004, and
in 2005 it was reissued by Alfaguara. The critics considered it a
visceral and poetic x-ray of Colombian violence in the decade of
the eighties and nineties of the last century. Afterwards he
published Lara (2007), a novel that deals the murder of the
Colombian Minister of Justice, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, which was
translated into French and published by LAtinoir of Marseille. In
2006, Nahum Montt published a biography of Miguel de Cervantes
Saavedra, titled Versado en desdichas, Versed in Wretchedness.
Hermanos de tinta Ink Brothers
Year: 2015
Publishing: Alfaguara (Colombia) Pages: 221
It is the year 1605, and Spain is preparing itself to ratify the
peace treaty with England after twenty years of war. More than five
hundred British subjects arrive in Valladolid on the occasion of
the celebrations. With this historical event as a background, Nahum
Montt retells the encounter of two ink brothers: Miguel de
Cervantes and William Shakespeare. A novel in which fiction and
fact weave a rich web of intrigues, adventures and disagreements
between two characters, that immerse the reader in a turbulent
atmosphere skillfully recreated.
Nahum Montt
LITERARY FICTION
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Toms Gonzlez (Colombia, 1950) studied Philosophy before becoming
a barman in a Bogot nightclub, whose owner published Primero estaba
el mar (In the Beginning Was the Sea), his first novel, in 1983.
Gonzlez has lived in Miami and New York, where he wrote much of his
work while making a living as a translator. After twenty years in
the US, he returned to Colombia. His works include the novels Para
antes del olvido (For Before Forgetfulness, 1987), La historia de
Horacio (The Story of Horacio, 2000), Los caballitos del diablo
(The Devils Little Horses, 2003), Abraham entre bandidos (Abraham
Amid The Bandits, 2010), La luz difcil (The Difficult Light, 2011)
and Temporal (2013) rights sold to: Mare (German).
Toms Gonzlez Longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction
Prize
A modern Colombian classicboth a story about death and about
practical objects
- Financial Times The lauded Colombian novelist lives up to the
hypeextraordinarily evocative
- Independent Toms Gonzlez has the potential to become a classic
of Latin American literature () a very pure writer
- Elfriede Jelinek, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Toms Gonzlez is a storyteller of universal range
- Die Zeit
Primero estaba el mar In the Beginning Was the Sea
Year: 1983, 2011
Publishing: La otra orilla, Punto de Lectura Pages: 216
The young intellectuals J. and Elena abandon the parties, the
drinking and the money of the city, and start a new life on a
remote tropical coast. Among mango trees, hot sands and everlasting
sunshine, they plan to live the Good Life, self-sufficient and
close to nature. But with each day come small defeats and
imperceptible dramas. Gradually paradise turns into hell, as brutal
weather, mounting debts, the couple's brittle relationship, and the
sea itself threaten to destroy them. Based on a true story, In the
Beginning Was the Sea is a dramatic and searingly ironic account of
the disastrous encounter of the imagined life with reality - a
satire of hippyism, ecological fantasies, and of the very idea that
man can control fate. Rights sold: Meridiaan Uitgevers (The
Netherlands), Pushkin Press (England), Carnets Nord (France),
Fischer Verlag (Germany) and Bertrand (Brasil)
Latest Publication
Temporal Storm Year: 2013 Publishing: Alfaguara
Toms Gonzlez in this new novel plummets the deepest recesses of
the human beingwhere brightness, when it reaches, becomes even more
transparent, and darkness, denser, and nevertheless his portrait is
so compassionate and lucid like the rest of his work. Storm is the
flipside of his celebrated novel The Difficult Light: hate as
filial love, is implacable.
LITERARY FICTION
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Sergio Ramrez () I wish to draw attention on the extraordinary
turn that Ramrez gives to literature
derived from chronicles () we are, more than in any other novel
that I have ever read, in Central America, and were there inside a
basin which is as humid and
suffocating as the weather itself and the bumpkin attributes
that accompany it. - Carlos Fuentes, El Pais
Sergio Ramrez (Nicaragua, 1942) published his first book in
1963; the following year he earned a law degree at the University
of Nicaragua. After a lengthy voluntary exile in Costa Rica and
Germany during which he continued to write works of fiction and
non-fiction he became active as the leader of the Group of Twelve,
consisting of intellectuals, businessmen and priests united against
the Somoza regime. With the triumph of the Sandinista Revolution in
1979, he became part of the Junta of the Government of National
Reconstruction, where he was elected vice-president of Nicaragua in
1984, an office he held until 1990. Sergio Ramrez has authored many
celebrated novels, as well as collections of stories and essays. He
has received Spain's Dashiel Hammet Award, France's Laure Bataillon
Award, Cuba's Jos Mara Arguedas Latinamerican Award, a Guggenheim
Fellowship, the Alfaguara International Novel Award and the Jos
Donoso Prize in 2011. A Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres of
France, and a doctor honoris causa of Blaise Pascal University
(France), he is also recipient of the International Award for Human
Rights awarded by the Bruno Kreisky Foundation, and the Order of
Merit of the Federal Government of Germany. He held the Robert
Kennedy Professorship in Latin American Studies at Harvard
University in 2009. His more recent books include Margarita est
linda la mar (Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea, 1998), Catalina y
Catalina (Catalina and Catalina, 2001), Sombras nada ms (Shadows
nothing more, 2003), Mil y una muertes (A Thousand Deaths Plus One,
2005), El Reino Animal (Animal Kingdom, 2006), El cielo llora por m
(The Sky weeps for Me, 2008), La fugitiva (The Fugitive, 2011) and
Flores Oscuras (Dark Flowers, 2013). His work has been widely
translated.
Sara Sara
Year: 2015
Publishing: Alfaguara Pages:
It was the first time the Magician addressed her. He had finally
spoken to her, from out of his own mouth, or through the youths
mouth. Wasnt that a success? Even it were at the expense of his
cholera, it had made him yield. Laughter is good for something, he
thought, and he again laughed in-between his teeth, making sure
that no one heard him this time around. The story of Sara and
Abraham is that of a pilgrimage through hostile kingdoms and
inhospitable lands, following the arbitrary indications that are
relayed to Abraham and Sara by the Magician, a multiform character
who does not seem to like laughter. In spite of the fact that
generation upon generation believed that this was a story embodied
by men, when in truth it is Sara who endows it with authenticity.
Sara with her irony, incredulity, perseverance and ability to call
into question the divine designs that no one else is ready to
contravene. With the pace of one of those stories told by the fires
warmth, Sergio Ramrez in this novel builds a brilliant divertimento
from a character taken out of the Bible but garbed in the attire of
the most current feminine sensitivity. The tale of the intelligent
rebelliousness of a woman who decides to take the reins of her life
till she is able to fulfill her greatest longings #of being a
mother#, and preserve above all else.
Highlight
Castigo divino Divine Punishment Dashiell Hammett Award, 1990
Year: 1988, 1998 Publishing: Mondadori, Alfaguara
Rights sold: McPherson (English, March 2015), Edition 8 (German,
2012), Denol (French, 1994 / Rights reverted), Meulenhoff (Dutch,
1992 / Rights reverted), Portuguese (Rights reverted), Russian
(Rights reverted).
LITERARY FICTION
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Classic
White Masks Year: 1981 Publishing: Dr-Al-Adb (Lebanon) Pages:
303 Rights through the Kerrigan Agency: Brazil, France, Germany,
Portugal, The Netherlands Rest of territories: The Colchie Agency
([email protected]) Rights sold: Actes Sud (France), Einaudi
(Italy), Archipelago (USA), MacLehose Press (UK)
Elias Khoury (Lebanon, 1948) is the author of novels, volumes of
literary criticism and plays. He was editor-in-chief of the
cultural supplement of Beirut's daily newspaper, An-Nahar, and is
Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York
University. Elias Khoury is a public intellectual, and a cultural
activist who plays a major role in contemporary Arabic culture and
in the defense of the liberty of expression and democracy. In 2012
he was awarded the UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for his contribution to the
promotion of Arabic culture.
Broken Mirror (Sinalcol)
Year: 2011 Publishing: Dr-Al-Adb (Lebanon)
Pages: 510
Nasri is a pharmacist in Beirut who lives alone with her two
children, Karim and Nassim. The first, a medical student, is active
in leftist circles under the nom de guerre Sinalcol (a nickname
derived from alcohol-free in Spanish), while the second is
Phalangist. The two brothers are in love with Hind, who is enamored
of Karim. But eventually, after the departure of the latter to
France, she marries Nassim. Their history is born of other stories
that intertwine to form an imposing fresco of Lebanese society over
the past fifty years. Rights sold: Feltrinelli (Italy) Actes Sud
(France) Alfaguara (Spain) MacLehose Press (UK) Archipelago
(USA)
Elias Khoury Written in the midst of the Lebanese civil war
(which began in 1975 and went on until around 1990),
White Masks portrays the infrastructural decay of Beirut and the
psychological toll it took on its citizens. Its written in a
visceral, journalistic style, and tackles issueswomens rights,
societal
constraints, religion rarely broached in Arab literature at the
time.
- The New Yorker Elias Khoury is a pure storyteller. A writer
who understands the hypnotic power of words, and who
lets this power become the actual subject of his books. Of
course, alongside the words, there is reality, palpable, sensuous,
atrocious.
- Le Nouvel Observateur
LITERARY FICTION
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Jorge Volpi Les Bandits est aussi intrigant quun roman
despionnage de Robert Littel
rcrit par un lecteur fervent de Borges et de Juan Rulfo -
Olivier Mony, Sudoest (France)
Highlight
Memorial del engao (Memorial of Deceit) Year: 2014 Publishing:
Alfaguara From one deceit to another, this singular book takes us
from the secrets of Wall Streets bedchambers to the group of Soviet
agents who concocted modern capitalism, in a chilling catalogue of
duplicities that dwell in the heart of human beings. Rights sold:
Seuil (France), Mondadori (Italy), Sonia Draga (Poland)
Jorge Volpi has been professor at the universities of Emory,
Cornell, Las Americas de Puebla, Pau, Catlica de Chile, Nacional
Autnoma of Mexico and Princeton and is presently a member of the
National System of Creators in Mexico. With the novel En busca de
Klingsor (In Search of Klingsor, awarded with the Biblioteca Breve
and Deux Ocans-Grinzane Cavour prizes) he began a "Trilogy of the
Twentieth Century", which following parts are El fin de la locura
(The End of Madness) and No sera la tierra (It wont be Earth). He
is the author of short novels and the essays: Imaginacin y poder
(Imagination and Power), Guerra y palabras (War and Words),
Mentiras contagiosas (Contagious Lies, Mazatln Best Book Prize,
2008). El insomnia de Bolvar (Bolivar's Insomnia, Debate-Casa de
Amrica Award, 2009) and Leer la mente (Reading the Mind). In 2009
he received the Jos Donoso Award of Chile for his entire output. In
2012 he received the Planeta-Casa de Amrica Award for the novel La
tejedora de sombras (The shadow weaver). In 2013 Editorial Alrevs
published La paz de los sepulcros (The Tomb Peace). He is a Knight
of the Order of Arts and Letters of France, and the Order of Isabel
la Catolica of Spain. His work has been widely translated.
La paz de los sepulcros The Sepulchers Peace
Year: 1995, 2007
Publishing: Planeta (Mxico) Editorial Alrevs (Spain, 2013)
Pages: 250
The Discovery of the lifeless body of Alberto Navarro, Mexicos
Minister of the Interior and the countrys possible presidential
candidate, beside the body of an unknown man in a hotel room in the
outskirts of the Mexican capital, unsettles a society that
unfortunately is used to the corruption and despotism of its
leaders, the abuses of its army and the bloody violence of its drug
cartels and delinquents. But for Agustn Oropeza, yellow press
journalist, the double murder goes beyond an exclusive for the
Tribuna del escndalo (Tribune for Scandal), when he recognizes the
body of the man who lost his life beside that of the murdered
minister. With a reflexive and masterly style which typifies Jorge
Volpi, and without omitting Mexicos crushing reality, the author
takes us by the hand of Oropeza deep into the underworld of child
prostitution, corrupt civil servants and a night life full of drugs
and a frenetic sexual activity that lives side by side with a
society that lives in fear, bewilderment and an appetite for all
that is morbid. These are desolate times in which one must wonder
what is happening in high places and what does the political
reality hide. Novel published for the first time in 1995 and
reissued in 2007 by Editorial Planeta, Mexico.
LITERARY FICTION
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Eduardo Margaretto. Writer, journalist, musical critic and
Spanish translator, Eduardo Margaretto has published both musical
biographies as well as poetry. He has collaborated in literary
magazines (Lateral, Pequea Italia or Algo); a reader in Circulo de
Lectores (Book Club), columnist, and writer of travel-books and
text books, producer and presenter of cultural programs in
Barcelona TV and, for six years, editor-in-chief of the
architecture magazine Eupalinos. He has also published short
stories and poetry in various publications. John Fante, Life and
Works. Like a Sonnet with no Extra Verses is the culmination of
more than twenty years of readings, studies, research and analysis
on the figure of this Italo-American writer.
John Fante, Vidas y obra. Como un soneto sin estrambote.
John Fante, Life and Works. Like a Sonnet with no Extra
Verses.
Year: 2014
Publishing: Alrevs Pages: 381
This meticulous and well documented biography of the
Italo-American writer that takes on tinges of essay when the author
weaves, in the almost four hundred pages of the book,
socio-historic events: (Italian Risorgimiento, Little Italy, The
Great depression, Hollywood); the analysis of literary trends: (the
lost generation, the proletariat novel, the Los Angeles School); or
the different approaches regarding his literary motivations:
(American Dream, emigration, baseball) which only further enrich
the strange, vital and literary journey of John Fante (Denver,
1909-Los Angeles 1983). With a tinge of daring, the book also turns
into a novel because Margaretto is able to make Fante the
protagonist of his own life, or as the title indicates, his own
lives, those which the writer lived, those which he imagined, the
invented ones or simply those he wished to have lived. To achieve
this fabricated ruse, the author, for instance, draws a skillful
chronological parallelism between Fante and his alter-egos:
Bandini, Molise and Toscana, without forgetting the other Fante
that appears critical, familiar, perverse and even poetic in his
abundant correspondencestill unpublished in Spain.
Eduardo Margaretto
"... The keys to enjoy the masterpieces as Wait Until Spring,
Bandini (1938) or Ask the Dust (1939)"
- Qu Leer (Magazine, Spain).
NON FICTION
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Dr. Roberto Canessa and Pablo Vierci Behind this true story of a
highly unorthodox doctor lies his
riveting past encounter with death. Upcoming title!
Apathway to the Heart Atria Books (World English & North
American Spanish)
A nineteen year-old pre-med student and rugby player boards a
plane with some 40 other passengers, fellow teammates with various
members of their families, bound for a sports competition in Chile
in October 1972. In the middle of the flight, in one of the most
uninhabitable stretches of the Andes, the plane crashes. After a
prolonged search, the passengers and crew are given up for dead.
After all, it is late October and, with subzero temperatures and
the worst of the winter winds and snows already underway, survival
in those mountains would be nothing short of a miracle. Seventy-two
days later, two young men, aged 19 and 22, walk out of those
mountains alive. One of them is that pre-med student named Roberto
Canessa. When the youths arrive at a village, no one believes where
they say they have descended from. Finally they convince the
authorities to return with them, and when the search party arrives
on horseback, they discover the impossible: 14 other survivors, for
whom Roberto had become, by necessity, a doctor on the mountain.
For the young aspiring doctor, his ordeal on that mountain would
serve as inspiration for his future. Out of a series of near-death
experiences, including a perilous physical journey, Roberto Canessa
would forge a powerful spiritual core. He had been granted a
miraculous gift: endurance despite the odds, and a profound
awareness of the inherent preciousness of life, no matter how dire
its immediate or long-term prognosis. The fame that followed his
trek out of the mountains resulted in his becoming an international
celebrity, a sort of global folk hero. But Canessa ended up feeling
not like a hero, but rather someone who had a great debt to pay. He
devoted his career to providing others with a second chance, just
as he had been given in the Andes. A Pathway to the Heart is the
profoundly moving story of this man's life. Canessa went on to
become a pediatrician specializing in fetal and infant heart
malfunction and disease, opening a clinic in Montevideo, working
with pregnant mothers from poor barrios, mothers whose doctors had
already told them there was no hope for their babies. Soon Dr.
Canessa became doubly legendary, as the doctor who had survived the
mountain and who now brought new life to children who were thought
doomed at birth. Written with Pablo Vierci, A Pathway to the Heart
possesses the appeal of a unique biography, the lure of a good
mystery, and the characters and suspense of high drama. Vierci
forcefully crosscuts Canessa's personal narrative of his
experiences in the mountain with the life-and-death choices he and
his patients must face daily at the clinic. He includes powerful
first-person accounts from Canessa's parents, from his childhood
sweetheart whom he married after his return from the mountain, and
from mothers who came to Canessa's clinic as well as children who
are alive today thanks to his medical intercession. Rights through
the Kerrigan Agency: Spanish (except North America), Brazil,
France, Portugal, The Netherlands Rest of territories: The Colchie
Agency ([email protected])
NON FICTION
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Edwin Winkels (The Netherlands, 1962) got a degree in
journalism, where he worked in the historic newspapers NRC
Handelsblad and Het Vrije Volk, before moving to Spain in 1988. He
has worked as a correspondent of various Dutch media, among them
the newspaper AD and the radio and public television NOS, and for
twenty one years (until 2012) he was a columnist at the Peridico de
Catalunya, working in the sports, investigation, general
information and chronicler of the city of Barcelona sections. He
has published five non-fiction books in Spanish, Catalan and Dutch.
In 2013 he debuted with his first novel Welkom Thuis (Welcome
Home). In October of 2014 his second novel appeared, Haar laaste
vlucht (Her Last Flight). Edwinwinkels.com
Su ltimo vuelo Her last Flight
Year: 2014
Publishing: Uitgeverij Brandt Pages: 288
Her Last Flight is based on a real story that occurred in Spain
toward the end of the fifties. On the 4th of December of 1958, an
Aviaco fliht crashes into a mountain by the name of The Knee of the
Dead Woman. The plane cannot be located for several days, till a
young local shepherd finds it at an altitude of 6500 feet. The
twenty one people on board this flight from Vigo to Madrid are all
dead, although Luciano Otero, the shepherd, finds the flights only
stewardess, Maribel Sastre, seated on a rock, as if she hadnt died
in the accident but rather by the cold of the two days out in the
open air. The author has reconstructed and fictionalized the story
thanks to documents and numerous interviews with the surviving
families and other people implicated in the tragedy. This is a
novel in the borderline between fiction and non-fiction, the New
New Journalism type of story. The novel revolves around three
stories, retold in three main accounts. The first, in the first
person, that of the stewardess Maribel, who is only eighteen, her
yearning to become a stewardess, to escape a grey country where
women hardly have an opportunity. She, in the first person, retells
this last trip: her memories, thoughts, the world of the first
stewardesses, of the pilots who came from the Franco ranks, of the
Spain of 1958 The second story is that of her mother, Anita, told
forty-five years later, in 2003. Mrs. Ana, in her nineties and who
does not have much longer to live, is, nonetheless, strong both
physically and anemically, and remembers everything that happened
to her, to her husband and daughter. The third story is that of the
sisters Josefa and Ester, ten and nine respectively, that after
five years are going to be reunited with their parents. It is a
story of emigration, of Galician parents who had to go to Madrid
seeking employment, leaving two of their daughters behind with the
grandparents till theyd made sufficient money to have an apartment
and space for all of the daughters. Her Last Flight also narrates
the tense wait for news and the search for the plane, but it is
mainly the story of five women touched by a tragedy, but with
immense strength and cheerfulness.
Edwin Winkels INTERNATIONAL
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Laura Gallego Cervantes Chico Award
Laura Gallego studied Spanish literature and language Studies at
the University of Valencia and in 1999 she won El Barco de Vapor
Award with Finis Mundi, a novel set in the Middle Ages. Three years
later she was granted this same award for La leyenda del Rey
Errante. She currently has twenty-five published works under her
belt, mainly focused on young readers and several short stories for
children, and counting with more than three million copies sold in
Spain alone and with translations in sixteen languages. Her most
popular works amongst the novels for young readers are: Crnicas de
la Torre, Dos velas para el Diablo, Donde los rboles cantan, Alas
de fuego and especially the trilogy Memorias de Idhn. In 2011,
Gallego received the Cervantes Chico Award recognizing her entire
works and in 2012 her novel Donde los rboles cantan won the
National Award for Childrens and Young Adult Literature.
http://www.lauragallego.com/
Todas las hadas del reino All the Kingdoms Faeries
Year: 2015
Publishing: Montena Pages: 476
Camelia is a fairy godmother who for three hundred years has
been efficiently assisting young maidens and aspiring heroes to
reach their own happy endings. But everything starts to go awry
when she is entrusted with Simon, a young stable hand who has
fallen in love with a young princess whom he didnt even know
existed. Camelia has solved harder cases; but, for some reason,
with Simon things start to twist in an inexplicable manner All the
Kingdoms Faeries is a novel set in a world peopled with faeries,
evoking the classical tales that we are all familiar with and, at
the same time, setting forth a different kind of story, full of
magic, adventure, intrigue and heart-felt feelings. A new fairy
tale involving traditional secondary characters in these type of
stories: fairy godmothers.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
CHILDREN / YA
Highlight
Finis Mundi Year: 1999 Publishing: SM (Spanish World) France.
Year 997 of our Common Era. Michel, a Cluniac monk, decides to
embark upon an impossible mission. Rights sold: SM Brazil (Brazil ,
Rights reverted), Crulla (Catalonia), DTV (Germany), Opera Ed
(Greece), Piemme (Italy, Rights reverted) Kaisei Sha (Japan),
Tonipress (Bulgaria)
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Luis Cerezo (Barcelona, 1969) studied Arts in the Escola Massana
and Music at Barcelonas Liceo. He has combined literature with
boxing, musical composition, cameraman, as well as an early career
as a jazz musician. For fifteen years he worked as an advertising
creative director and film and television screenwriteractivities
which he has juggled with musical composition and independent
filmmaking. In 2004, he directs and produces his first experimental
full-length film,Nufragos (Shipwrecked). In 2006, he promotes the
manifesto Cinelibre (FreeFilm), an alternative production platform
inspired on guerrilla cinema, and which fosters solitary
filmmaking. Fiesta (Party), his first full-length documentary
(2008), was officially selected for the international festivals of
Warsaw, Toulouse and Montreal, among others, besides inaugurating
the season of Spanish cinema at the Instituto Cervantes in Shanghai
and Beijing. In 2013, he directs and releases the full-length film
Plan B, selected by the Bogota International Film Festival. In
2014, he writes his first novel, Eo, which rights have been
acquired by Suma de Letras publishing house, which will publish it
in 2015. www.luiscerezo.net/
EO Eo
Year: 2015 (May)
Publishing: Suma de Letras Pages: 193
Pedro is a ten-year-old coming from a broken family with an
absent father. He lives with his mother Susana in a poor
neighborhood of the city, next to the river. She works double
shifts at the bar, while her unmotivated son Pedro goes to school.
He spends his time at home watching television and playing video
games. One day, while he is walking along the reed bed on the
outskirts of the city, Pedro finds an elephant (Eo) that has
escaped from the circus. The stunning discovery will endow Pedro
with a renewed curiosity and will enhance his child stimuli.
Instead of letting everyone know about Eo, he will keep his new
friend as a secret except from his mother, although she cannot or
will not listen to him. The elephant will remain hidden in the
wetland, away from the dangerous adults. Thanks to Eo, Pedro will
learn about being responsible, organized and determined. He will
discover the value of friendship and loyalty, but he will also
learn how to avoid danger and make hard decisions. Thanks to the
elephant, Pedro will learn to grow up. But the day Eo is
discovered, the police, the neighbors and the media can only see
him as the shadow of a monstrous threat. A public danger that must
be eradicated. Sadly, Eo will be hunted by everybody. In an act of
desperation, Pedro will run away astride the elephant. But his plan
wont last for long. The police cordon will gradually close in on
the elephant, putting the kids life and his dream of keeping his
friend forever in danger.
Luis Cerezo
CROSSOVER
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Rafael Dezcllar is a diplomat and has lived in a number of
places, including: Central America, Israel, the USA, Russia, Cuba
or Ethiopia. In Madrid he has held a number of posts, including
that of Director General of Foreign Policy from 2004 to 2008.
Between 1995 and 1998 he lived in Moscow, from where he travelled
extensively throughout the ex-Soviet Republicsby then Independent
Statesof Central Asia and the Caucasus. He is the author of La
Europa dependiente, (Dependent Europe) (Eudema, 1992), Entre el
desierto y el mar (Between the Desert and the Sea) (Destino, 1998)
and Tierra de Israel, tierra de Palestina (Land of Israel, Land of
Palestine) (Alianza, 2003). He is presently the Spanish Ambassador
to Israel.
El pirata bien educado y sus amigos The polite pirate and his
friends
Year: 2015
Publishing: Siruela Pages: 136
This book brings together a fun and amazing collection of
stories, which have for protagonists little Sofia and Jaime, who
are brothers, sleepy-head Juanito, clever Professor Patatini and
the polite pirate, Pierre, among others. They are all faced with
unexpected and great dangers, such as having to flee from the jaws
of a crocodile. They will also have a wonderful time overflying the
city on the back of a friendly winged dragon; or theyll have to
dress up so as to slip away and thus be able to give what is their
due to a group of rabble-rousers who bother all the inhabitants of
a neighborhood We will be amazed by the original inventions of
Professor Patatini and well live exciting adventures with Pierre,
the most original and no doubt, the only polite pirate in the
entire Caribbean. With fantastic illustrations by Emilio Urberuaga,
Premio Nacional de Ilustracin.
Rafael Dezcllar
CHILDREN / YA
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CHILDREN / YA
Ana Campoy was born in Madrid in 1979, and since her childhood
has felt an irresistible attraction towards books. After many years
as a compulsive reader, she enrolled in the Universidad Complutense
de Madrid, where she received a degree in Audiovisual
Communication. For many years she worked in several fields,
including film, television and print journalism, with credits to
her name as editor, director and creenwriter. She currently devotes
her full time to literature. Apart from the Alfred & Agatha
Series, she is also the author of Discovering Madrid (2014, La
Galera), Park Gells Dragon (to be published in 2015, La Galera),
and is working on several other projects that will see the light
during the following year.
The Alfred & Agatha Series
Year: 2015 Publishing: Edeb
Pages: 200-300
What would have happened if Alfred Hitchcock and Agatha Christie
had met as children? What adventures would they have lived
together? What amazing mysteries would they have solved together?
The Alfred & Agatha Series shows us how the fictional childhood
of the two most important masters of suspense of our time could
have been. Coming soon, the last book, Mona Lisa's stealing. Alfred
is a reserved boy, somewhat introverted and full of insecurities.
In contrast, Agatha is curious, full of life and self-esteem. In
fact, she runs her own detective agency, Miller & Jones, and is
considered an accomplished private investigator by her neighbours.
Alfred comes from a working class suburb, the East End, whereas
Agatha lives with her family in the most bourgeois area of
Victorian London. Both kids are accompanied in their adventures by
an exotic and very perceptive character: Snouty Jones, Agathas dog.
Even though the differences between all of them are than anything
that might come their way. The plot of the stories pays homage to
different aspects, characters and situations from the more well
known works of Alfred Hitchcock and Agatha Christie, while creating
gripping adventures for the reader to enjoy. Some details from the
lives of their real-life counterparts are interwoven in the
descriptions of the characters, and are explained in full at the
end of each book, in a section called Did you know... Rights sold:
France, Italia (Rights reverted), Greece, Slovenia and Turkey
Ana Campoy
This author has done what wed love to do: recreate in a book the
characters we love. Turn them main characters
- Olvido Macas in Herrera en la onda show (Onda Cero Radio)
