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March 2019Gato Angora en la lavadora
Relatos contemporáneos
by Manuel Giron
«La codicia de los que manejan el mercado mundial es demasiado grande y poderosa. La especulación y el lavado de dinero no pueden ser detenidos. La corrupción es la columna vertebral del sistema financiero mundial. Y el artista es un simple bufón que aparece y desaparece por arte de mafia ». «Manuel Girón ha ido escribiendo durante sus viajes historias llenas de humor e ironía que giran en torno al absurdo; sus cuentos reflejan dilemas vitales, historias de todos los días que el escritor saca de contexto con un sentido del humor. El autor se permite mezclar realidad y ficción, expresar sus opiniones sobre el mundo que le rodea con total naturalidad, de manera singular y muy personal, estableciendo un juego en el que participa el autor, sus personajes y el lector, este último obligado por la fuerza y la tensión de la narración que le va envolviendo a la vuelta de cada página, en ocasiones se añade al juego el equívoco provocando la hilaridad y la sorpresa. Manuel Giron coquetea con la ficción, nos asombra con sus ideas, planteamientos y fabulaciones, manteniendo la vez los pies fuertementedos en la realidad. Sus relatos constituyen una magnifica y grata sorpresa, una recopilación de ideas con un indudable trasfondo poético. » Begoña Peris Presidenta del Club del Libro en español de las Naciones Unidas, Ginebra. "Al día siguiente me levanté con un fuerte dolor de cabeza y sin recordarme a qué hora había regresado al hotel. Lo primero que hice fue tomar una larga ducha, y luego, cuando me rasuraba, escuché en el noticiero que todas las palomas del parque Russell Square en el barrio londinense de Blooms amanecido muertas sin explicación alguna. El Inspector de la policía, John Sherrinford, informó a los medios que se desconocía la causa de la muerte masiva de palomas en el parque. Según los análisis de rigor no se había descubierto ningún indicio de envenenamiento, y se había descartado que una inesperada lluvia de granizo, muy frecuentes en la época de verano, las hubiese aniquilado. El locutor mencionó la versión de un mendigo que aseguraba haber visto un día antes en el restaurante del parque a un sujeto extraño, palabras textuales del testigo, observando las palomas y posiblemente las mató con una mala mirada. Versión que el inspector Sherrinford rebatió por considerarla más propia del realismo mágico que de la realidad londinense en la que hasta la fecha nadie había muerto por una mala mirada. El mendigo, que resultó ser un profesor de literatura inglesa en paro desde hacía un par de años, había insistido en señalar a un personaje de gafas oscuras con sudadero de capucha como el principal sospechoso de la masacre, porque en el sudadero llevaba anotada una palabra que podía ser clave durante la investigación: Vendetta ". Libro disponible en papel y formato digital
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FictionMarch 2020Night and ocean
by Raquel Taranilla
Winner of the 2020 Biblioteca Breve Prize.Bea Silva is shocked when she comes across an article in the newspaper that says someone has stolen the embalmed skull of the legendary silent film director F.W. Murnau. What’s most surprising is that Bea is convinced she knows who the thief is: Quirós, an underemployed filmmaker who one day showed up at her enormous ramshackle house.At almost thirty-two, Beatriz is a somewhat aloof college professor, weary of life and almost pathologically erudite. The arrival of Quirós brings out her lucid, hyperactive side and sets her up for a wildly unhinged fall.
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September 2019El niño que no quiso llorar
by Jiménez-Barbero, José Antonio
Again facing his reflection on the mirror, and again the same idea coming to his mind, putting an end to his life. Inside his clenched fist, mum's sleeping pills, his only hope for escaping the hell esecially designed for him by his schoolmates. His little sister's love being his only reason to endure a life of hardship, Santiago has become, after years suffering the cruellest of bullyings at school, a mere shadow of himself. Otra vez frente al espejo, y otra vez con la misma idea, quitarse la vida. En el interior de su mano cerrada, las pastillas de dormir de mamá, su única esperanza para escapar del infierno que han fabricado para él sus propios compañeros de colegio. Sin más aliciente para seguir viviendo que el amor por su hermanita Teresa, Santiago se ha convertido, tras años de estar sufriendo acoso en su colegio, en una sombra de sí mismo. La llegada de Lucía, una niña nueva, extraña y diferente, logrará rescatarlo del universo frío e inhóspito en el que vive, y hará renacer en él la esperanza de volver a sonreír. Pero en el colegio, la persecución continúa y Nacho, su principal acosador, no ceja en su empeño de doblegar su espíritu de un forma u otra. Y Santiago, decidido a no dejarse derrotar, acabará transformándose en aquello que más odia. The arrival of Lucia, a new classmate, different and awkward, will strike some degree of balance in his life, successfully rescuing him from the cold and barren universe he inhabits and triggering a new desire to smile again. But nothing changes at school: the bullying goes on relentlessly and Nacho, the worst bully, won't give up on his whim to break Santiago's spirit one way or the other. But Santiago, firmly determined not to be defeated, will inevitably turn into the thing he hates the most.
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AdventureApril 2020Yumi and her Band
by J. Olloqui
Yumi is ten years old. She wants to be a drummer in a rock band to be rich and famous. Now I play drums in a band with my friends. We're not famous yet, and I don't understand why, because we're so cool. Apart from my band, I have Alimaña, who's my best friend, although he's pretty dumb. Besides, my parents spend their lives scolding me, my older sister has a disease called adolescence, and my little brother is a criminal mind locked up in the body of a two-year-old. A children's book similar to Diary of a Wimpy Kid. This book won the November 2021 Spanish National Pop Eye Award in the category of children's and young adult literature.This title is one of the 9 children's titles selected by the panel of German experts for the "Buchtipps unserer Experten" section as being the most suitable for translation and marketing in German-speaking countries on the www.newspanishbooks.de portal in 2021. New Spanish Books ist ein Projekt des spanischen Außenhandelsinstituts ICEX in Kooperation mit dem spanischen Verlegerverband FGEE. Es soll Verlagen aus dem deutschen Sprachraum den Zugang zu neuen Büchern aus Spanien erleichtern und ihnen eine Entscheidungshilfe bei der Auswahl übersetzungswerter Titel geben. New Spanish Books is a project of the Spanish Foreign Trade Institute ICEX in cooperation with the Spanish publishers' association FGEE. It is intended to make it easier for publishers from the German-speaking world to gain access to new books from Spain and to help them decide which titles are worth translating. A second volume entitled "Yumi and her Band. Vermin Superstar" has also been published (ISBN: 978-84-121692-7-0).
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Literature & Literary StudiesNunca sabrás a qué huele Bagdad
by Marta Tafalla
Imagina que no tuvieras sentido del olfato. Imagina que jamás te despertara el aroma del café recién hecho, ni el olor a quemado te hiciera salir corriendo de la ducha para rescatar el pan de la tostadora. Imagina que no pudieras percibir la fragancia de un bosque mediterráneo las tardes soleadas de mayo, ni reencontrar a tu amante en la cama vacía. Que nunca te molestara la orina de un gato en tu puerta, ni la peste de basuras y cloacas. Pero que tampoco pudieras detectar el olor de un escape de gas, ni de un incendio.Así es el mundo de las personas que sufren anosmia, ya sea porque han nacido sin sentido del olfato o porque lo han perdido en algún momento de su vida. Así es el mundo de la autora de esta novela, que padece anosmia congénita, y así es el mundo de Helena Higuera, la protagonista de esta historia de ficción.Transcurren los años ochenta en un barrio obrero de Badalona, cuando Helena, en el verano de sus once años, comprende que su nariz la hace diferente a los demás. Emprenderá entonces su viaje particular en busca de ese mundo de olores que es incapaz de percibir, pero su aventura la conducirá al lugar más peligroso que pudiera haber imaginado, y cambiará su vida y la de los suyos para siempre.
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Pop-up & lift-the-flap booksOctober 2021La meravellosa i horripilant casa de la iaia | The Amazing Creepy Granny House
by Meritxell Martí & Xavier Salomó
A lift-the-flap book for grandmas and grandsons to have a ghoulishly fun time! Meritxell Martí and Xavier Salomó have created a not-too-spooky lift-the-flap book that promises hours of entertainment for the little ones. This title shares the memorable story of a grandson visiting her granny to spend a very special evening together. To his surprise, when the kid arrives in the old Victorian style house, there is note for him: a mouth-watering snack awaits in the kitchen. After having a delicious eye-popping chocolate smoothy, the young boy chases the kitten room by room until dusk. By the time the full-moon is coming, the big date approaches and so does the a punchy dénouement that gives a unique twist on the hounted house cliché. Readers will love exploring the rooms, guessing what is beneath each flap and finding details and surprises hidden on every page. Boo! A novelty book for grandmas and grandsons to read together. That’s always a treat!
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Children's & YAFebruary 2021Never
by Gloria Castanares Marti
“Never” is a book that brings us closer to the reality of bullying, narrated in the first person by the protagonist. As a teenager Alvaro accumulated a great deal of problems. When he moved to a new city, his father was ill and in the new high school he was the target of all sort of aggressions of a group of students. Alvaro discovered Pablo another student suffering bullying too. Helping Pablo might be the way to solve his own problems. The book shows us the effects of bullying in the state of mind, in food, in physical deterioration. How Alvaro talks to himself, his lack of self-love. He becomes desensitized to the violence he suffers. How much damage does he need to react and call for help? It is a dynamic story that addresses other dimensions of the lives of the protagonists, delving into their personal desires and family life. Fear, anguish and pain, but also hope... a crack that allows us to glimpse that another reality is possible.
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FictionMarch 2019El sueño de la razon (The dream of reason)
by Berna Gonzalez Habrour
DASHIELL HAMMETT PRIZE 2020 (Best Spanish crime fiction) Can death be a form of art? A literary tribute to Goya’s black paintings. Commissioner Ruiz returns to Madrid to prepare her defence. She has been suspended from the force. The city’s local holiday is in full swing and the banks of the Manzanares River are thronged with people. But the appearance of a series of animal corpses following a fixed pattern is the first sign of a problem that will soon leave another lethal mark: what appears to be the ritual murder of a young art student at one of the dams that controls the flow of the river. And it won’t be the only one. The police investigate a range of hypotheses, but events begin to point towards a series of scenarios that will lead Commissioner Ruiz to the legacy of Goya, connecting a plot that is extremely disturbing – and difficult to unravel. Can death imitate art? Can madness become a form of creativity? Which is more important: life, transcendence or freedom? Without her team, her uniform, her pistol, María Ruiz is forced to confront a highly intelligent adversary, one who is driven by obsession and will stop at nothing to manipulate those around him. A chilling journey through a territory where mental disorder becomes obsession, to a point where death is considered a form of art.
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Adventure stories (Children's/YA)November 2019OLD TALES FOR GIRLS TODAY
by JAVIER LEON
What we now know as classic tales are oral stories that have been passed down from generation to generation. It is not known exactly when they appeared, what we do know is that in 1600 Charles Perrault gave them a literary form, tempering, in many cases, the harshness of the oral versions to adapt them to the times. 200 years later, Hans Christian Andersen and the Grimm brothers (among others), would do the same by creating new stories and transforming those of Perrault to their time. Now, 200 years later, they are revised and updated again. This time, without princes or princesses, without stepmothers or witches. This time, they are the heroines and they don't need anyone to save them.
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March 2019Las lentejas de la guerra
by da Casa de Cantos, Fernando
This book pays tribute to a whole generation of people condemned to live through one of the most difficult and turbulent historical periods, not only in Spain but also in the rest of the world. War Lentils tells human stories of run-of-the-mill individuals who, as everybody, dreamt of a better world, conceived from very different points of view. Alternative solutions were proposed, but none of them was definitely legitimate, ending invariably in a collective failure from which the coming generations should learn. Este libro supone un homenaje a toda una generación que le tocó vivir unos años convulsos, difíciles, no solo en España sino en todo el planeta.Relata historias de gentes sencillas que ansiaban –como todos– un mundo mejor, visto desde prismas diferentes, con soluciones muy distintas que desembocaron en un fracaso colectivo del que las generaciones siguientes deberíamos aprender. Los personajes de esta novela son secundarios; podrían haber sido estos como podrían haber sido otros, escogidos entre cientos o miles de testimonios familiares que aún perviven en la memoria más secreta y callada de nuestros mayores. La verdadera protagonista es la Historia: esa, con mayúsculas, que debe ayudarnos a ser mejores personas.
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FictionJune 2022Adiós, pequeño (Goodbye, little one)
by Máximo Huerta
FERNANDO LARA PRIZE 2022 My mother would have been happier if I had never been born. That’s the simple truth about my life. The plot and the ending of this novel don’t really matter. Accepting the circumstances of the story is the only sedative that allows me to write. The only thing I’m afraid of is the end. The only purpose of this sermon of mine, of all these words, of the constant pain and the feigned happiness, is to delay my inexorable arrival at that point, like watching a train make its way down the mountain, disappearing into tunnels that were dug a century ago. “Should I write?” I ask myself. “Write and, once you’ve finished, don’t go back. Say goodbye.” With this brave, intimate account, the author reconstructs a childhood in which everyone – grandparents, parents and children – has been silent for too long. Adiós, pequeño is the story of a family trying to be happy despite everything.
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Educational material2023THE ART OF MENSTRUATION
by ANABEL MUÑOZ
Your journey towards healthy and conscious menstruation begins here.
