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      • Nacida Libre
        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        October 2019

        Nacida Libre

        by Minerva Piquero

        Primera novela de presentadora de televisión Minerva Piquero. Cora necesita reinventarse para salir del pozo en el que se ve inmersa tras la inesperada ruptura con el amor de su vida. El sexo se convertirá en el rito de iniciación hacia su nueva identidad, un mundo desconocido don¬de experimentar, reencontrarse y perdonar. Valentina llega a España huyendo de un oscuro secreto y un pasado traumático; necesita renacer para encontrar su sitio en el mundo. La vida no es fácil para una joven transexual extranjera. Las dos protagonistas de Nacida Libre, aun siendo de mundos tan distintos y alejados, coinciden en un momento crucial para ambas en el que deben recorrer un camino de autoconocimiento dejando atrás la traición y la venganza. Las circunstancias en las que se encuentran hacen que crezca entre ellas una profunda amistad y la fuerza necesaria para entender que, a pesar de todo, ellas nacieron libres.

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      • La playa y el tiempo
        Fiction
        July 2020

        La playa y el tiempo

        by Ernesto Calabuig

        "Writing is daring, like taking your clothes off on a beach”. This is the start to the first of the short stories that make up this book, the story of a writer who, at the age of forty-seven, decides to stop the inertia and decline of her life and not come back from her summer holiday. The main character of Beijing-Xàtiva, on board of a train, will also find out the almost unfathomable implications of trying to bring the past back. Through this collection we see a whole gallery of diverse characters that share the common denominator of a fight against the frantic pace of time: school teachers, flamenco dancers, old sea men, Japanese engineers, fathers that watch their children grow and drift away, impossible lovers from an old translation academy, high school lovers who lost track of each other, men visited by Greek philosophers and tormented by a dream, French guitarists, voyeurs of other people’s lives… Even Leonard Cohen portrayed in detail during his years in a Buddhist monastery, in silence, away from the stage. “Escribir es un atrevimiento, como quedarse desnuda en una playa”. Así comienza el primero de los relatos que componen este libro, la historia de una escritora que, a sus cuarenta y siete años, decide detener la inercia y el declive de su vida y no regresar de un veraneo. También el protagonista de Pekín-Xàtiva, a bordo de un tren, descubrirá las implicaciones casi fantasmales de intentar recuperar el pasado. Por esta colección desfila toda una galería de variados personajes que comparten el denominador común de afrontar el vértigo del paso del tiempo: maestras infantiles, bailaoras de flamenco, ancianos del mar del Norte, ingenieros japoneses, padres que ven a sus hijos crecer y alejarse, amantes imposibles de una vieja academia de traducciones, amores de instituto a los que se les perdió la pista, hombres visitados por filósofos griegos y atormentados por un sueño, guitarristas franceses, voyeurs de las vidas ajenas… Y hasta el propio Leonard Cohen retratado al detalle en sus años de silencio, apartado de los escenarios en un monasterio budista."

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      • As Long As We Could
        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

        As Long As We Could

        by Pablo Herrán

        Eve Friedman is an eighty-three years old playwright who lives alone in a messy apartment in Manhattan. Her childhood memories that come into her mind in the swimming pool, the night conversations with the building manager and the chicken thighs on sale at the supermarket are enough to make her happy. However, when she meets Jorge, a young foreigner who recently moved to New York to work as a screenwriter, her life started to reel. Through this relationship, Eve will discover another kind of loneliness, one caused by a disease that is disarming her most powerful weapon: words.

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      • Earth
        Fiction
        February 2020

        Earth

        by Eloy Moreno

        The problem of finding the truth is not knowing what to do with it. A story that will change the way we see the world. A bestselling author who touches the most sensitive nerves.  A group of people live together in a nameless place. Why are they there? How did they get there? And above all, who are they? Or who have they become? We know nothing about them. Just what their actions tell us. In a lawless world, where everything that made up society has disappeared, what is left of us? A story full of unknowns, of big questions about the world we live our lives in, that asks us if the things we think are important really are. The author’s major themes are feelings, absurdity, society, and the importance of following our dreams.

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      • El mes más cruel
        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        May 2010

        El mes más cruel

        by Pilar Adón

        Two strangers have to share a three-storey house for a few days, and both are determined to maintain order and be indispensable; a woman waits anxiously for the arrival of a younger boy who will free her from her boredom and frustration; Scott returns to England after his polar expedition but no one will receive him; a girl named Clara follows the footsteps of an elusive cat; a mother terrorizes her son so that he never leaves her side. The fourteen stories that compose "El mes más cruel" are a careful collection of recipes to survive loss, separation, madness and fear.

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      • Mom doesn´t know yet
        Fiction
        January 2023 - October 2028

        Mom doesn´t know yet

        by Blanca Baltés

        Four daughters grow up. Mom protects. Or try. The little girl observes, asks herself questions, counts silences. News after news, scare after upset, the intrigue makes its way in bites. Dizzying story composed as a mosaic, with agile episodes that mix the comic and the tragic, as in life. Mom asks few questions and keeps many silences. But life goes on, life doesn't wait. Mama Doesn't Know It Yet is the first narrative work by Blanca Baltés. Her dramatic writing covers various genres and styles (children's, comedy, dance-theater, document theater...). She has covered El amor aluso, by Antonio de Solís (Corral de Comedias de Almagro, 2002) and Casandra, by Benito Pérez Galdós (Teatro Español de Madrid, 2020). Added to these works are original works such as Half-Over Oracle (Sala Triángulo in Madrid, 2003) or Beatriz Galindo in Stockholm (Sala de la Princesa, CDN, 2018). Unpublished remains Doors Out (below the words), selected in the Creation Aid program of the Community of Madrid (2008).   The novel narrates the life of a Spanish woman, her four daughters and her mother, her grandmother. In some way it tells the intrahistory of a part of Spanish women during the second half of the 20th century. It is a familiar and everyday story, in which europeans who are now over 40 can recognize themselves, but at the same time surprising, with unexpected twists from beginning to end.

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      • The universe of U feeeling experience
        Fiction
        September 2023 - September 2028

        The universe of U feeeling experience

        by José Ángel Mañas

        Tense futuristic stories, yet hauntingly realistic, with an edge of psychological unease reminiscent of Allan Poe   The author of “Stories from the Kronen” José Ángel Mañas returns with a disturbing and iconoclastic new adventure called The U Feeling Experience with the creation of a body-swapping experience that aims to achieve universal empathy.   A world entertainment company born in Silicon Valley arrives in the capital convinced that with its technology they can bring irreconcilable enemies closer together: goodbye to the gender war, goodbye to the class war, goodbye to xenophobia. With U feeling, psychological therapies will be achieved with results never seen before.   An intriguing series in which each book tells a different story with new protagonists, although it has a fixed universe, the environment that is always maintained and that unifies the series is the "Exchange Department", an office of the National Police that oversees resolving the cases derived from the problems of exchange of bodies.   Based on dystopias that shows a conflict at the beginning, the reader begins to resolve the conflict in his head, but nevertheless behind each story there is a complex framework, a different solution to what appears to be at first, an inevitable tension seizes you and you're dying to know what's going on. In the end everything becomes clear, but the suspense and intrigue have stayed inside you. So far, Alt autores publishing house has published three books:     Book 1. The story of Momar   What happens when a desperate immigrant and a wealthy man from the capital decide to swap bodies?   Book 2. Gabri the glutton   Is it legal for a child and a parent to swap bodies? The moral and legal dilemmas caused by this new fashion of body swapping have only just begun. Book 3. The price of meat It tells the story of Julius, a big and robust man, an insatiable carnivore, and his wife Ayra, the love of his life, a militant vegetarian who asks him to give up meat.

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      • Les particuliers de Tanger
        Fiction

        Les particuliers de Tanger

        by Santiago de Luca

        Il existe différents mythes sur la fondation de Tanger. L’auteur de ce libre vient les briser et le réinventer, se risquant une nouvelle légende qui découvre que, à diverses époques de notre passé, pas toujours très inclusives, ceux qu’on appelle ici ‘particuliers’ ont été mis dans un bateau et relâchés vers leur sort dans les eaux de la mer. Il n’est pas difficile d’imaginer qu’un de ces bateaux qui transportaient tant de singularités ait fait naufrage et ait réussi à rejoindre Tanger, établissant ainsi une lignée et une sorte d’attraction magnétique de la Ville Blanche pour tous ceux qui vivent en dehors des tendances les plus courants.    De la rigueur du style qui ne manque pas d’ironie, Santiago De Luca, sans rechercher la vérité absolue mais plutôt la partie la plus profonde de l’être humain, a créé son propre genre, où chaque histoire racontée est un personnage et le décor dans lequel une singularité se déroule. Avec toute la complicité qu’il éprouve pour les ‘particuliers’, puisqu’il se sent comme l’un d’entre eux, il invite le lecteur à se plonger dans cette mer de personnages: le paresseux, le faux espión, le proche, le porteur de gilet…, sachant qu’ils seront eux.mêmes les personnages, ceux qui placeront finalment le lecteur devant un miroir. Santiago De Luca (Santa Fe, Argentine) est le directeur de la publication littéraire SureS et le responsable de l’espace argentino-maghrébin Jorge Luis Borges, chargé des représentations diplomatiques de la région. Docteur en philologie de l’Université Complutense de Madrid, il a enseigné la littérature dans des universités du Moyen-Orient, d’Afrique, d’Europe et d’Amérique latine. Au cours de sa carrière d’écrivain, il a publié des romans, des essais, des nouvelles et de la poésie.

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      • La Forastera
        Fiction

        La Forastera

        by Olga Merino

        A contemporary western set in the rugged, unforgiving territory ofrural Spain. A thrilling story about human resilience. For the locals, Angie is the village crazy lady. She lives isolated and alone in the country, surrounded by ghosts who torment her with childhood memories of a poor working-class neighbourhood in Barcelona and a passionate love affair in her youth with an artist from London. One morning, Angie discovers the lifeless body of the local landowner hanging from the branch of a walnut tree. This news endangers her own land and the future of the entire village. In her struggle to keep what’s hers, Angie uncovers a series of secrets deeply buried in that land. This leads to a liberating realisation: once you lose everything, they can’t take anything away from you. And then you’re invincible.

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      • Outside of time
        Literary Fiction
        May 2021

        Outside of time

        by Silvia Bardelás

        "Destiempo is a song to the fight for internal revolutions and the desire to free ourselves from the vital ropes that bind us." - Armando Requeixo. Diario cultural. Radio Galega   Destiempo illuminates the we as the truly human space. An older woman asks her grandson to come back to Galicia from the United States to spend the summer with her. She wants him to attend a kind of social fight that she is carrying out with her friends. They look for action as the only thing that can give meaning to their lives. Silvia Bardelás mixes different generations that share the same problem: the weight of a standardized world, full of discourses, oblivious to vitality. The possibility of feeling alive and real again makes everything move in an unstoppable way. The story is a coming and going of past and present, of ideas and actions that reveal the silent social power and the inner need to feel free. Destiempo (Outside of time) is a community novel. Beyond individuality, beyond the group is the we, which can only emerge genuinely when individuals become singular beings, when they become aware of the myths, the ideology, the discourses that have dominated their lives and those of their ancestors.   The narrator puts the focus on the interrelation. He lights up scenes where the characters discover themselves through others.

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      • And they say
        Fiction
        March 2019

        And they say

        by Susana Sánchez Aríns

        Dicen (And they say) is a family story crossed by Franco's repression.   It tells what is not registered in notarial acts, or in newspapers, or in books, or in provincial archives. It tells a story of a day-to-day silence that became long, very long, and that has conditioned us until now.   Dicen tells real events in a network of voices silenced for generations, it is not written from the political reflection, but from the poetic justice, it is the contemporary account of the Spanish postwar period.   Dicen is an innovative book. It is not poetry, it is not an essay, it is not a short narrative and it is everything at the same time. Written in short sequences, it collects the intimate memory of a family and reconstructs their insignificant lives to show the terror of repression after the civil war. Conversations, poems, stories, essay references, fragmented sequences that the reader orders in a shocking story.   The narration drags the reader to the end by the rhythm, the different voices, the authenticity and the gradual understanding of why that time is silenced.   The author speaks of poetic justice as a way of giving life to those who did not want to be named after their death: the oppressors. This story recovers their names, their ways of acting, their personalities, their power. And it also brings back to life those who died in the ditches or lived marginalized: the victims.   It is very difficult to make historical memory from politics, however, literature is its natural space. An original work, with enormous expressive force and a unique point of view discovered by Susana Sánchez Aríns, an experienced, committed voice.   The book has received the Madrid Booksellers Award for Best Fiction Book 2019. (Premio de los Libreros de Madrid al Mejor Libro de Ficción)

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      • Obra Maestra (Masterpiece)
        Fiction
        February 2022

        Obra Maestra (Masterpiece)

        by Juan Tallon

        The story in this novel is utterly implausible – and yet it happened. One of the world’s leading museums, the Reina Sofía in Madrid, commissioned a piece from leading American sculptor Richard Serra to celebrate its inauguration in 1986. A sculpture weighing thirty-eight tons which one fine day… simply vanished into thin air. Nobody knew how it had disappeared, when it had happened, or who was responsible. A mixture of nonfiction novel and fictionalized reportage, combining the bizarre with the hallucinogenic, Masterpiece employs the pace of a thriller to reconstruct a case that poses some disturbing questions. How could something like this have happened? How does a copy become an original? What even is contemporary art? And what was the true fate of the famous, huge and immensely heavy steel sculpture that evaporated? Might it reappear one day?   “I am especially amazed by the generosity of this polyphony. More than a stylisticaudacity, I see it as proof of great sensitivity. The author speaks masterfully of contemporaryart, addressing the relationship between the original and the copy and the collective dimension of a work. It also inspires a keen awareness of history. Even more impressive, it offers a scathing vision of our present, and more particularly our political present. It is admirable to have succeeded in turning a work as rectangular as Equal-Parallel / Guernica-Bengasi into a prism that refracts the world so powerfully”.Benjamin Burguete, editor at Le Bruit du Monde (France)

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      • Uprooted
        Fiction
        June 2022

        Uprooted

        by Julia Rendon Abrahamson

        With brilliant prose, Julia Rendón Abrahamson portrays the life of a separated mother in New York. A young Ecuadorian woman has a daughter with a Catalan banker and in the midst of today's broken society seeks a way to redeem the family's emigration dating back to World War II from Nazi-occupied Vienna.   A powerful repertoire of uncontrollable images of family memory leap into the consciousness of the day to day of a New York life marked by lovelessness, parenting, the search for a new life. Thought attempts to spin a discourse that functions as a protective blanket as a vital youthful impulse dominates her sexual, amorous and familial experiences.   This is the novel debut of an original writer who creates a dazzling text for the power of the language, which emerges as if it springs from the deep need to name the world.   In this great moment of visibility of Ecuadorian women's writing, Julia Rendón Abrahamson comes to tell us that the themes that interest the region are not exhausted in violence, or what may seem exotic abroad. She claims that what does exist in this territory is a diversity of identities and experiences that need to be read.

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      • THROUGH MY LITTLE EYES
        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        December 2016

        THROUGH MY LITTLE EYES

        by Emilio Ortiz

        THE YEAR'S STAND-OUT NOVEL. A SUCCESS IN SOCIAL NETWORKS. BASED ON REAL FACTS A funny story of friendship, love and achievement told through the eyes of a guide dog. Cross is a happy and mischievous guide dog. Mario is a blind young man who tries to make his way in life. Together they form an inseparable team. A través de mis pequeños ojos is a moving novel that tells of Cross's funny adventures in the human world. Emilio Ortiz offers the account of a reality that he knows very well, since he has his own guide dog, named Spock, who is almost as naughty as Cross.

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      • NO CATS AT HOME
        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        May 2018

        NO CATS AT HOME

        Diario de un gatuno primerizo

        by Pedro Zuazua

        THE ADVENTURES AND DISADVENTURES OF A NOVICE CAT ADOPTER Not so long ago, Pedro belonged to the Feline Resistance group, made up of all those people who unabashedly said "a cat won't come into my house, period". Until one day he met Mía, a white and brown kitten who settles in his apartment and not only takes over the space, but also conquers Pedro's heart. He couldn't imagine how much Mia would change his life. Fun, light-hearted and emotional, these feline memories reveal all the ins and outs of the cat world. And much more. Because, in fact, who has never been a first-timer?

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      • THE MURDER OF PYTHAGOR
        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        October 2020

        THE MURDER OF PYTHAGOR

        by MARCOS CHICOT

        AN HISTORICAL THRILLER FULL OF LOVE, ACTION AND ENIGMAS. A JOURNEY TO ANCIENT GREECE WHERE YOU WILL DISCOVER UNEXPECTED SECRETS AND THE MOST DISQUIRING CHARACTERS. The elderly philosopher Pythagoras, one of the most powerful characters of his time, is about to choose a successor among the great masters when a series of murders begins in his community. Behind the crimes, a dark and powerful mind seems to surpass Pythagoras himself. The enigmatic Ariadne and the Egyptian researcher Akenón will try to discover who the murderer is while solving their own feelings. A challenge in which the ghosts of the past join the dark threats of the present.

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      • Shadows of the past
        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        March 2020

        Shadows of the past

        by Miguel Ángel Puente

        Son of an Iranian father and a Spanish mother, Fa’iq Shabazz is a child from Cadiz who suddenly sees his pleasant existence shocked by his parents harrowing death. This fact completely transforms his life and conditions his future forever. Forced to leave for Iran, where he will be taken care of by his paternal uncle, the new reality he will have to live shapes a personality completely different from that of the child he once was. His anger dominates his mind and body, and numb to the suffering of others, he quickly throws away every stage of his life in the middle of the Iranian army and ends up being one of the most lethal secret agents the world has known. Fed up of obeying other’s orders and taking a decision as little meditated as rash, which almost costs his life, he decides to become a soldier of fortune to end up being the organizer of the biggest terrorist attack in history: the 11-S attack. Back in Spain and after a severe disease, he’s taken care of by an old Spanish priest and university professor who shapes a person totally different from the former one. However, little after getting married, his past comes back haunting him, revealing little by little a surprising scenario full of spurious plots and hidden interests, which has not much to do with the scenario he believed he had lived. Reality and fiction mixed in this exhilarating thriller that aims to unveil some of the mysteries behind the 11-S terrorist attack.

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      • The princess and the monster
        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        May 2020

        The princess and the monster

        by Olga Redrado

        Nereah is a 27-year-old woman who emigrates to the United States from Belgium pursuing a dream. She wants to be a singer and knows for certain she will have more opportunities in the States than in Europe. A month after arriving in Chicago, the New York Twin Towers are destroyed. Almost as a bad omen and despite it, she decides to continue her path and meets a man she falls in love with. She even breaks her remote relationship with a Belgian true love. After a few months, they get married and together they begin a life that soon displays a less gentle side than what she had expected. When their son is born, problems increase gradually and she looks for answers with therapists and regressions to previous lives. When the situation gets unbearable, Nereah finds help in the most unsuspected person. Then she will have to take a final decision to preserve her life and that of her son.

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      • Mongo Blanco
        Fiction

        Mongo Blanco

        by Carlos Bardem

        ESPARTACUS PRIZE 2020 - "I am Don Pedro Blanco. Slave trader. Madman. Giant or monster. Mongo Blanco. The Great Wizard, the Mirror, the Sun. The King of Gallinas. Pirate. Father. Brother. From the slums of Malaga to an African throne, from the wonders of Havana to a madhouse in Barcelona. A pistol. If I had a pistol, I’d spatter the walls with my brains. This is the story of my guilt and my penitence."   Following his father’s death, Pedro Blanco leaves Malaga and goes to sea in search of a better future. Both cunning and determined, he gradually makes his way in the world and becomes Mongo Blanco, one of the greatest slave traffickers of the 19th century. But when he is betrayed by somebody close to him, his fall into disgrace begins. He recounts his story to the doctor in the asylum to which he has been confined, little suspecting that his story has not yet finished and that a figure from his past has returned to collect an outstanding debt. In his final years, Mongo Blanco will have the opportunity to redeem himself or finally fall victim to his own excesses. Carlos Bardem’s latest novel is the thrilling epic of a real historical character, the powerful and legendary Mongo Blanco. Spain, Cuba and Africa provide the settings for this engrossing story, carefully documented and written with great attention to detail and astonishing emotion that will leave lovers of historical fiction, adventure novels and literature in general gasping for breath.   Jonathan Littell meets Quentin Tarantino.

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      • Nunca serás un verdadero Gondra (You’ll never be a true Gondra)
        Fiction

        Nunca serás un verdadero Gondra (You’ll never be a true Gondra)

        by Borja Ortiz de Gondra

        Borja works as a translator for an international organization in New York, where he lives with his partner, John. One night, he receives a phone call from his cousin, who informs him that his brother has just died and that the cousin has something to give him. Many years earlier, in the 1990s, Borja left the Basque Country and cut his ties with a family and a land that were poisoned by hatred and incomprehension. In the United States he became a different person, someone who had torn up his roots and buried his past in order to embrace a present in which he could live, freely, in another language. But one phone call can be enough to demolish the highest wall. Now, this ill-fated son of a family that has fallen on hard times finds he is the sole heir of the dilapidated mansion that looks out over the sea from its vantage point at the top of the town of Algorta. Only he can open the door and decide what to do with so many years of pain and silence. But healing the wounds is not easy and writing a book about the past may only serve to make them deeper.   Ortiz de Gondra has written a perceptive exploration of identity, memory and the possibility of shaping one’s own destiny beyond any boundaries that our family and our homeland may impose on us.

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