Laura in the City of Saints is an undeniable classic of 20th century Catalan fiction. It tells the story of an attractive, inexperienced woman who hopes to fulfil herself by marriage to a rich heir from a provincial city: Comarquinal.
My name is León, León Kamikaze. I’ve never had a family; not even friends. I fell in love once... I've had three lives. In the first, the world rejected me. In the second, everyone hated me. In the third, I still don’t know who I am.
"Charcoal Letters" (Irene Vasco and Juan Palomino): Almost no-onemin the town of Palenque knows how to read. Señor Valendia, the owner of the shop, is one of the few people who do.
The disturbing story of a relationship. What happens to fairies who can't find true love? Lili believes in fairies, Marlene doesn't.
Winter 1936: the rebel troops that have risen up against the Second Spanish Republic bomb Madrid. The republican government decides to start evacuating the most valuable paintings in the Prado.
A moving ensemble novel that follows a year in the lives of families, neighbours, parents, children, the young and the elderly, ordinary people who have the courage to keep going.
A brilliant satire about a writer who changes languages. An immigrant from eastern Europe is admitted to a Belgian psychiatric hospital and submitted to a linguistic reinsertion therapy to cure his ailment: not writing in his mother-tongue.
The chance discovery of an unusual, apparently worthless painting in the rubble is, in fact, the tip of the iceberg of a collection of extremely valuable, eccentric, irreverent works of art that a group of enlightened people hid during the War of
London, 1871. Young Aurelius feels as though he is languishing away at the family's tavern, living a life as grey as his father's.
Luigi Boccherini: The Life of a Genius was awarded the Verbum Ibero-American Novel Prize in 2015, winning out over hundreds of high quality works.