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Facing Off
by Graciela Vaserman Samuels
Facing Off / Graciela Vaserman Samuels Facing Off ist ein Kaleidoskop aus Abschieden. Auf einer jahrhundertelangen Reise flüchten Männer und Frauen in Flammen aus einem Europa an die oft chaotischen, aber einladenden Küsten Argentiniens. Während Gabriela ihren Töchtern das Land ihrer Geburt zeigt, wird die Geschichte des Landes vor ihren Augen lebendig. Die Leser gehen auf eine Reise durch die Zeit und erleben Momente der Geschichte mit den unschuldigen Augen eines Kindes, eines Rebellen und einer reifen Frau. Facing Off ist gleichzeitig die emotionale Geschichte einer Mutter, die sich in den Reaktionen von Gabrielas Töchtern widerspiegelt. Von Buenos Aires über Jerusalem nach Paris und zurück nach Jerusalem verbinden sich Familie und Tradition zu einem zarten Gewebe. Ein unerschütterlicher Wille führt sie auf ihrer Odyssee durch die Generationen. Facing Off wurde erstmals auf Spanisch veröffentlicht: Al Dar la Cara (Metafora, Buenos Aires, 2010) und ausgewählt für die Präsentation auf dem argentinischen Stand auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2010. Graciela Vaserman Samuels, geboren in Argentinien, wanderte nach Israel aus und studierte Politikwissenschaft an der Hebräischen Universität. Sie hat an der Temple University in Literatur promoviert und war Gründungsdirektorin der Hadassah Medical Relief Association. Als UNESCO-Vertreterin verbringt sie ihre Zeit zwischen Paris und Jerusalem. Die Autorin und ihr Ehemann Shimon Samuels haben drei Töchter und vier Enkel. Vaserman Samuels schrieb auch den Roman Decoding Colors.
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Facing Off
by Graciela Vaserman Samuels
Facing Off is a kaleidoscope of departures. In a century-long journey, men and women escape from a Europe in flames to the often convulsive but welcoming shores of Argentina. As Gabriela unveils to her daughters the land of her birth, the country becomes a map of thumbtack flags of flesh and blood. Readers see a revolving door of political parades and moments through the innocent eyes of a child, a rebel, and a mature woman. Facing Off is a catharsis at each milestone of motherhood, reflected in the responses of Gabriela’s daughters. From Buenos Aires to Jerusalem to Paris and back to Jerusalem, fragile threads link family and tradition. A living willpower guides readers across the desert between generations. Facing Off was first published in Spanish as Dar la Cara by Metafora (Buenos Aires, 2010) and selected for display on the Argentinean stand at the 2010 Frankfurt Book Fair. Graciela Vaserman Samuels, born in Argentina, emigrated to Israel and studied political science at the Hebrew University. She holds a PhD in literature from Temple University and served as founding director of Hadassah Medical Relief Association. As a UNESCO official, she spends her time between Paris and Jerusalem. The author and her husband, Shimon Samuels, have three daughters and four grandsons. Vaserman Samuels also wrote the novel Decoding Colors. An English- Lanugage E-book edition was published in late 2014, by SWS Inc., C.A. 242 Pages, 15X22.5 CM
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Children's & YA2020The Light in the Shadow
by Susana Aliano Casales
Living in the light sounds compelling. Living in the shade is a bit scary. But there is no need to worry, because it is not possible to live alone in one way or another. We generally travel between the two until we find our balance, something that the girl in this story has just discovered.
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Children's & YA2018The Secret of the Red Umbrella
by Susana Aliano Casales
Today the sun shines. The woman is sitting on a bench in the square, under the shade of a large tree. She writes in her notebook.
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Children's & YA2017Nyah Nyah
by Susana Aliano Casales
His name is Pedro and he’s a boy, but he looks like a girl. Unlike his sister, Valeria, who looks like a boy. They’re the strangest kids at school.
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Children's & YA2014My Sheepdog Chiche
by Susana Aliano Casales
Chiche was a brown sheepdog that my grandfather gave my older brother for his birthday. When I was born, Chiche had already lived with us for a few years, so he was part of the family before me.
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Children's & YA2013Going Home
by Susana Aliano Casales
Sometimes, I don’t feel like going home. I run around a bush a hundred times, or I count all the trees along the avenue once again, or I simply lie down on the grass of the plaza, which is like an enormous green carpet all painted with flowers.
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January 1997Der Weg der Tolteken
Ein Gespräch mit Carlos Castaneda
by Corvalán, Graciela / Einleitung von Köhler, Willi; Übersetzt von Frank, Joachim A
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True stories (Children's/YA)August 2018Niños
by María Jose Ferrada, María Elena Valdez
Thirty-four poems, one for each of the young children (all under the age of 14) that were executed, arrested or disappeared during the Chilean dictatorship. A book dedicated to all those little Chilean victims, but also to all the children that each day suffer the consequences of violence.
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Poetry (Children's/YA)August 2018Animal
Poemas breves salvajes
by María José Ferrada, Ana Palmero
"Hidden in his horn he guards the secret of the jungle”. This might be as well the beginning of a novel, but it's an inspired riddle about wild animals. The illustrations in high varnish of this edition highlight the different skin textures of each animal and invites the reader to discover a new way of reading in a tactile and playful way.
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Family & home stories (Children's/YA)October 2017Mexique
El nombre del barco
by María José Ferrada, Ana Penyas
On May of 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, 456 sons and daughters of republican fighters took the transatlantic boat Mexique, that set sail in Bordeau to arrive in Mexico. Previsions were that they would stay there three or four months, but the Republican defeat and the beginning of the Second World War changed that brief exile into a definitive one. This books tells the story not only of those children, but also about the ship, being aware that we do not know how many boats try to cross our oceans every day, moving human beings that have full rights to a proper way of living and not to stand over a land that tears apart below their feet.
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FictionMarch 2019And 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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March 2020La morada imposible. Tomo II
by Susana Thénon
Susana Thénon fue una poeta, traductora y fotógrafa argentina (1935-1991), contemporánea a la generación del ´60 (junto a Alejandra Pizarnik y Juana Bignozzi), sin embargo, es inclasificable, una voz sola, fuera del canon por propia decisión, una figura erguida entre el desasosiego y la ironía, una “distancia” urgente en la poesía argentina del siglo XX. Este libro reúne sus poemas publicados en libros (Edad sin tregua, Habitante de la nada, De lugares extraños, distancias y Ova Completa) y una selección de sus textos inéditos. Abarca también su trabajo como fotógrafa (a lo que se dedicó durante décadas) y traductora e intenta rescatar algo de su pasión por la danza en las fotografías a Iris Scaccheri). Hemos incluido además ensayos publicados en revistas y suplementos literarios y algunas notas breves y afiladas que la propia Susana Thénon escribió sobre el enigma de la poesía. Su juego y libertad con el lenguaje se manifestó de modos diversos entre registros muy variados entre la poesía culta y el lenguaje popular, la mezcla de discursos y temáticas, el predominio de la prosa, la degradación de la cultura, la mezcla violentas de estilos, su ruptura con los lugares comunes y las imposiciones de la sociedad a través del humor, siempre políticamente incorrecta. Está siendo traducida a varias lenguas (inglés, alemán y portugués) y su interés y profunda vigencia (es una poeta cada día más actual) crecen día a día junto a las relecturas por parte de los movimientos feministas en todo el mundo que descubren la continuidad de una tradición feminista en la literatura argentina. Thénon, como ninguna otra poeta, es una poeta desobediente y puede asumir el latido poético de nuevas generaciones políticas y literarias que reclaman por los derechos de las mujeres y disidencias. La reciente reedición de su obra permite el acceso a las nuevas generaciones. La morada imposible [The Impossible Abode] Susana Thénon (1935–1991) was an Argentinian poet, translator and photographer, a contemporary of the Sixties Generation along with Alejandra Pizarnik and Juana Bignozzi. Yet by her own decision, she remains outside the canon, an isolated and unclassifiable voice, an upstanding figure somewhere in the territory between disquiet and irony, an urgent ‘distance’ in twentieth-century Argentine poetry. This volume brings together her published books of poems: Edad sin tregua [Age Without Truce], Habitante de la nada [Inhabitant of Nothing], De lugares extraños [On Strange Places], Distancias [Distances] and Ova completa [Complete Ova], as well as a selection of unpublished texts. It also covers her photographic work, to which she devoted herself for decades, as well as her translations, while also bringing to life her passion for dance in her photographs of Iris Scaccheri. We have also included essays published in literary journals and supplements, as well as some short, incisive articles that Susana Thénon wrote on the enigma of poetry. Her playfulness and freedom with language manifested itself in a variety registers: high poetry and popular vernacular, a mixture of discourses and themes, the predominance of prose, the degradation of culture, the violent clash of styles, a break with commonplaces and the impositions of society through humour (always politically incorrect!). Her work is currently being translated into several languages (English, German and Portuguese). The interest in her work and the perception of her profound relevance to our present – she has never felt more contemporary – grow day by day, as do feminist re-readings around the world, discovering the continuity of feminist tradition in Argentinian literature. Thénon is a disobedient poet like no other, and her poetry can take on the pulse of new dissenting political and literary generations fighting for women rights. Her republishing will allow new generations to access her work.
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March 2020La morada imposible. Tomo I
by Susana Thénon
Susana Thénon fue una poeta, traductora y fotógrafa argentina (1935-1991), contemporánea a la generación del ´60 (junto a Alejandra Pizarnik y Juana Bignozzi), sin embargo, es inclasificable, una voz sola, fuera del canon por propia decisión, una figura erguida entre el desasosiego y la ironía, una “distancia” urgente en la poesía argentina del siglo XX. Este libro reúne sus poemas publicados en libros (Edad sin tregua, Habitante de la nada, De lugares extraños, distancias y Ova Completa) y una selección de sus textos inéditos. Abarca también su trabajo como fotógrafa (a lo que se dedicó durante décadas) y traductora e intenta rescatar algo de su pasión por la danza en las fotografías a Iris Scaccheri). Hemos incluido además ensayos publicados en revistas y suplementos literarios y algunas notas breves y afiladas que la propia Susana Thénon escribió sobre el enigma de la poesía. Su juego y libertad con el lenguaje se manifestó de modos diversos entre registros muy variados entre la poesía culta y el lenguaje popular, la mezcla de discursos y temáticas, el predominio de la prosa, la degradación de la cultura, la mezcla violentas de estilos, su ruptura con los lugares comunes y las imposiciones de la sociedad a través del humor, siempre políticamente incorrecta. Está siendo traducida a varias lenguas (inglés, alemán y portugués) y su interés y profunda vigencia (es una poeta cada día más actual) crecen día a día junto a las relecturas por parte de los movimientos feministas en todo el mundo que descubren la continuidad de una tradición feminista en la literatura argentina. Thénon, como ninguna otra poeta, es una poeta desobediente y puede asumir el latido poético de nuevas generaciones políticas y literarias que reclaman por los derechos de las mujeres y disidencias. La reciente reedición de su obra permite el acceso a las nuevas generaciones. La morada imposible [The Impossible Abode] Susana Thénon (1935–1991) was an Argentinian poet, translator and photographer, a contemporary of the Sixties Generation along with Alejandra Pizarnik and Juana Bignozzi. Yet by her own decision, she remains outside the canon, an isolated and unclassifiable voice, an upstanding figure somewhere in the territory between disquiet and irony, an urgent ‘distance’ in twentieth-century Argentine poetry. This volume brings together her published books of poems: Edad sin tregua [Age Without Truce], Habitante de la nada [Inhabitant of Nothing], De lugares extraños [On Strange Places], Distancias [Distances] and Ova completa [Complete Ova], as well as a selection of unpublished texts. It also covers her photographic work, to which she devoted herself for decades, as well as her translations, while also bringing to life her passion for dance in her photographs of Iris Scaccheri. We have also included essays published in literary journals and supplements, as well as some short, incisive articles that Susana Thénon wrote on the enigma of poetry. Her playfulness and freedom with language manifested itself in a variety registers: high poetry and popular vernacular, a mixture of discourses and themes, the predominance of prose, the degradation of culture, the violent clash of styles, a break with commonplaces and the impositions of society through humour (always politically incorrect!). Her work is currently being translated into several languages (English, German and Portuguese). The interest in her work and the perception of her profound relevance to our present – she has never felt more contemporary – grow day by day, as do feminist re-readings around the world, discovering the continuity of feminist tradition in Argentinian literature. Thénon is a disobedient poet like no other, and her poetry can take on the pulse of new dissenting political and literary generations fighting for women rights. Her republishing will allow new generations to access her work.
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RelationshipsJuly 2018THE SOUND OF AN EMPTY HEART
by Graciela Mayrink
An anonymous message uniting two sad and lonely hearts: a singer and his fan. Gabriel Moura is a rock star at the peak of his career, after releasing an album well received by critics. He seems to have everything, but he hides himself in his room, tormented by manias that his mother put in his head. Fighting against OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), trying to overcome his obsessions and compulsions, he finds a forum about depression, where a fan shares his problems. When he feels connected to her, he begins to nurture a fixation for the girl and believes that it can help her end her sadness. Carolina is in her first year of college and is haunted by the ghost of a scandal at the end of high school. Her ex-boyfriend leaked an intimate photo of her on the Internet. Without parental support, she falls into depression, distances herself from her twin sister, and finds relief only by talking to strangers in an online forum. One day, she meets a fan of her idol on the internet who is also having problems, and the two of them start exchanging messages of support. Little does Carolina know that who is behind everything is the famous singer.
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Biography & True StoriesThe passion to be a woman
by Eugenia Tusquets y Susana Frouchtmann
A bel canto diva who chose to devote herself to loving happiness; a philosopher who influenced 20th century thinking; a First Lady who transcended the stereotype and became a social reference; a nun who decided to realise her dream of getting closer to God without worldly interference. Diverse individual examples for the same underlying reality: women who became aware of their own being and acted taking advantage of their abilities, often clashing against the inertia of a world marked by the male stamp. This book brings together a dozen female testimonies with a common link: the will to excel and the ambition to exist to the full. Maria Callas, Hannah Arendt, Eleanor Roosevelt and Teresa de Ávila share pages with Virginia Woolf, Remedios Varo, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Anaïs Nin and Mercè Rodoreda, among others. Eugenia Tusquets recreates that facet of their lives that has transformed them into a character worthy of attention, that revealing episode that has remained hidden behind the cloud of their fame and the sometimes ambiguous narration of their existence. Susana Frouchtmann delimits the context in which this private transformation takes place, in the form of a journalistic-biographical chronicle that completes each profile and makes comprehensible the true scope of what would otherwise appear to be a mere anecdotal account. At some point, they all had to decide whether to follow the path set by the society of their time or the one imposed on them by their inner selves. The rest belongs to history.
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RelationshipsAugust 2019THE END OF OUR STORY
by Graciela Mayrink
An anonymous message uniting two sad and lonely hearts: a singer and his fan. Monica was the only girl at school who didn't want to be friends with the self-centered João Carlos. In trying to win her over, he discovers that both are fans of superheroes and Star Wars, and the road to Monica's heart seems easier and easier. After a few months of trying, he reaches his goal, and the courtship lasts two years, until João moves with his parents to the United States to study and pursue his dream of having a career as a painter. The courtship doesn't resist the distance and a mistake of João, and they break up. João becomes a celebrity worldwide after one of his paintings appears on a popular reality show. Despite all the fame, he feels that his happiness is not complete with success, because he lacks the woman he loves. Now, João returns to Brazil for an exhibition in Rio de Janeiro and with the objective of reconquering the love of his life. Will the reunion of the two reopen some wounds or is it still possible to revive this great love?
