1. Frankfurt Book Fair 2012
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3. Víctor del Árbol
La tristeza del samurái
(The sadness of the Samurai)
Editorial Alrevés, 2011 / 414 pages
Le Point du polar européen prix 2012
“Don´t look for Japanese in this novel, there is none. But sadness, on the contrary, is
abundant and trapped our heart in a poignant way.” Le Figaro
“A freezing darkness novel which exceeds the classic thriller sigh codes.” Le
Monde
“Uncut jewel, dark and remarkably well written, The sadness of the Samurai is linked to
Carlos Ruiz Zafón´s The Shadow of the Wind and Millenium of Stieg Larsson. Forty years
of little and big histories which collide and clash like the sound of a sword forged in
blood and tears.” Pages des Libraires
1941. Isabel becomes involved in a plot to kill her powerful Fascist husband only to be betrayed by
her mysterious lover who in reality is employed by her husband’s right-hand man. The story turns
around this event and how it plays out in the lives of many people, where a Japanese sword
converges and cuts all.
1976. María, a young lawyer takes on the case that converts her from an unknown, struggling lawyer
into a household name: An inspector is accused of brutally torturing a police informant leaving him
for dead. María is the defense for Ramoneda, the victim, and she manages to convict the inspector
César Alcalá. Throughout the trial Ramoneda is in a coma, and María ignores the fact: César’s
daughter had been recently kidnapped, and he went to Ramoneda demanding to know her
whereabouts. Though María senses there could be more to the story, she sends César to prison for
his crime without investigating the circumstances. Five years later, this act comes back to haunt her,
as Ramoneda –and some other people– reappears in her life and she is forced to confront not only
her own actions, but those of her father’s past. No one is innocent, everyone suffers for his or her
sins, though almost never through the workings of the law. Isabel by loving someone and trying to
save herself, caused nothing but pain: her older son is disowned by his father and sent to die; her
younger son is put into an asylum and mysteriously disappears for some years. César, in wanting to
save his daughter, tortures Ramoneda, changing him in the process from a simple peon into a
calculating killer, but he is not the only one.
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Actes Sud France Círculo de Lectores Spain (Book Club)
Armchair/Yedioth Israel DeBolsillo Spain (Paperback)
Mondadori Italy Matica Macedonia
De Fontein The Netherlands Henry Holt USA (World English)
Albatros Poland
Víctor del Árbol (Spain, 1968) holds a degree in History from the University of Barcelona. He
works as a civil servant since 1992. In 2003, he was the runner-up for the VIII Fernando Lara
Award with El abismo de los sueños (The Abyss of Dreams) and in 2006, won the Tiflos Award with
El peso de los muertos (Weight of the Dead). The sadness of the Samurai is his latest novel.
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4. Juan Bolea
Pálido monstruo (Pale Monster)
Espasa, 2012 / 256 pages
Beautiful and enigmatic, the young lawyer Eloisa Ángel is an authentic
femme fatale, of an extraordinary intelligence, fascinated by serial killers
of whom she is writing a book. In order to do so, she contacts a
journalist, a lawyer, and a politician who in the brink of old age is
about to become the mayor of the Spanish city Zaragoza. She takes
advantage of them, and all, attracted by her sensuality and murky past,
she manipulates.
One spring morning, the city awakes with the news of Eloisa´s brutal murder. The
subsequent investigation will uncover the human miseries and also the unleashed passions
beneath the apparent quiet life of provincial capitals.
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 Alcalá Award in
1981. Then he published two novels that were highly acclaimed by the critics: Mulata (Mulata, Mira
1992), set in Castro´s Cuba, and El color del Índico (The Color of the Indian Ocean, Rey Lear
1996/2008), which takes place in Africa. 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 protagonizing the deputy inspector Martina de
Santo, which was followed-up with La mariposa de obsidiana (The Obsidian Butterfly, Ediciones B
2006), Crímenes para una exposición (Crimes for an Exhibition, Ediciones B 2007), Un asesino
irresistible (An Irresistible Assasin, Ediciones B 2009) and Orquídeas negras (Black Orchids, Espasa
Calpe 2010). With his previous novel La melancolía de los hombres pájaro (The Birdmen´s Sadness,
Martínez Roca 2011) he won the II Premio Abogados de Novela (The II Novel Lawyers Award).
Emilio Calderón
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5. La cosecha humana
(The Human Harvest)
Planeta, 2012 / 336 pages
A woman’s dead body appears in a waste ground in the conflicting area
of Jerusalem. Everything points to a lapidation. A few days later, two
more bodies are found in different sections of the city. All the alarms
go off. Sarah Toledano, a Spaniard of Sephardic origin and who works
as a police inspector, will be in charge of investigating these terrible
crimes. With the priceless collaboration of her assistant, the Argentine
Lautaro Heller, they will both be sucked into a spiral of intrigues and
dark activities where nothing is what it seems.
Emilio Calderón (Spain, 1960) is a historian, editor and writer. For ten years he devoted himself
exclusively to children’s literature, and published, amongst others, the following works: Continúan
los crímenes en Roma (The Crimes in Rome Continue, Anaya 2004), Julieta sin Romeo (Juliette without
Romeo, Anaya 2007) El último crimen de Pompeya (The Last Crime of Pompey, Edelvives 2004), and
El misterio de la habitación cerrada (The Closed Room Mystery, Anaya 2004) His first adult novel, El
mapa del creador (The Creator’s Map, Roca 2006) was edited after enjoying a literary creation grant
from the Spanish Royal Academy in Rome. This work became an instant international success,
selling its translation rights in 23 countries worldwide. Other novels published by this author are El
secreto de la porcelana (The Porcelain Secret, Roca 2007), El judío de Shanghai (The Jew of Shanghai –
Fernando Lara Fiction Award – Planeta 2008) and La bailarina y el inglés (The Ballerina and the
Englishman, Planeta Award Runner-Up 2009).
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6. Reyes Calderón
La venganza del asesino par
(The revenge of the even number)
Planeta, 2012 / 448 pages
The helicopter of Argentina´s richest man crashes during a storm.
Although everything points to an accident, the police receive evidence
that there is foul play. The strange thing is that the evidence comes
from Ernest Wilson, who is doing time in a federal prison which is
isolated by the snows. He claims that someone is going to perpetrate
the perfect crime so as to deprive him of his glory, thus offering his
services. There is only one condition: to interview the judge that put
him away, Lola MacHor. But she refuses. She will soon discover that the Even Number
Murderer is challenging her. But, what is an even murderer?
Impeccable combination of intrigue, feelings and investigation, with a remarkable ending
and good dosage of humor. This addictive psychological novel, with its magnetism and
narrative strength, grips one from the very first page.
Reyes Calderón (Spain, 1961) is PhD in Economics and Philosophy, a professor and first vice-
dean 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, and centres her professional
career focusing on good governance and anti-corruption. Columnist and habitual lecturer, she
combines her academic work with writing. Reyes Calderón is author of Ego te absolve (Ego your
Absolved), Gritos de independencia (Shouts of Independence), and Las lágrimas de Hemingway
(Hemmingway’s Tears). Los crímenes del número primo (The Crimes of the Prime Numbers, RBA 2008.
Rights acquired by Nord/Italy, Muza/Poland and Bertrand/Portugal) 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, RBA 2009) and El último paciente del doctor
Wilson (Dr. Wilson’s Last Patient, Planeta 2010).
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7. María Dueñas
Misión Olvido
(Mission Olvido)
Temas de Hoy, 2012 / 507 pages
New York Times bestselling author
Incapable of putting her life back together, Professor Blanca Perea,
desperately accepts what she anticipates to be a tedious academic
assignment. Her personal stability has just recently collapsed, her
marriage gone to the dogs. Confused and devastated, flight to the
insignificance Californian University of Santa Cecilia is her only option.
The campus that welcomes her, however, turns out to be much more
attractive than what she initially expected, all abuzz at the time by a
civic movement opposed to the destruction of a legendary spot for the purpose of building
a gigantic mall. And the work that occupies her—cataloging the legacy of an old
compatriot, Andrés Fontana, deceased decades ago—is far from being as pointless as it
initially appeared.
As she endeavors to organize the memory of that forgotten Hispanist, Daniel Carter keeps
growing closer to her, a veteran and attractive American colleague who does not occupy
the post he ought to. In-between both men—one through his posthumous testimonies and
the other through his growing involvement—Blanca will be carried away in a maze of
mixed feelings, hidden schemes and doors not altogether closed. Mission Olvido is a large
and vital story, again told through a woman's voice. The novel moves across frontiers and
epochs to tell us about losses, courage, memory and reconstruction. An intensively human
work that moves back and forth between Spain and California, displaying unexpected
intrigues, intertwined loves and characters full of charisma that captivate us with their
strength and passion.
Rights acquired by: Planeta Brazil
María Dueñas (Spain, 1964) has a PhD in English Philology and titleholder professor at the
University of Murcia. She has taught in North American Universities and is the author of academic
pieces, as well as having participated in multiple educational, cultural, and editorial projects. Her
previous and first novel El tiempo entre costuras (The Time in Between) became an international
success translated into 25 languages and more than two millions copies worldwide.
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8. Laura Freixas
Los otros son más felices
(The Others are happier)
Destino, 2012 /256 pages
“The voice of Laura Freixas is one Spain’s most important narrative
voices in the past couple of decades. It is an unyielding voice,
interesting, intelligent; loyal to its principals regarding creation …”
Pilar Castro, El Mundo
Aurea is a fourteen year-old from Madrid who originally comes from
La Mancha region, and who is off to spend the summer at the home of
some distant relatives in a little village in the Costa Brava. The contrast between the
mother’s vain effort to shake off the daughter’s boorishness, which makes her come across
as ridiculous, and the apparent confident, open and cultured air of her “rich cousins”, will
be the germ of unease which will radically change the course of her life. Years later, Aurea
will unravel some of the answers to the questions that she’d been wondering about during
all these years. Questions regarding a summer rich in events in which Aurea comes in
contact with art, beauty, style, elegance and culture. An authentic life, which nevertheless
conceal lies, fakeness and disappointment, and which will hide the clue to a vital secret that
she can’t quite decipher.
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9. Laura Freixas (Spain, 1958) studied Law and graduated with a dissertation on the Russian feminist
revolutionary, Alexandra Kolontai and completed her studies in Paris. She was also a Spanish
lecturer in remote British universities. She has worked on anthologies, literary criticism and
translations, as well as writing two short story books: “El Asesino en la muñeca” (The Murderer in
the Doll) and “Cuentos a los cuarenta” (Stories at Forty); the essay Literatura y mujeres (Literature
and Women) and the novels Último domingo en Londres (Last Sunday in London) and Entre amigas
(Between Friends).
Adolfo García Ortega
Pasajero K (Passenger K)
Seix Barral, 2012 / 302 pages
“This formidable novel place García Ortega in the limelight of Spanish writers.”
J.M. Pozuelo Yvancos, ABC de las Letras
“Adolfo García Ortega always provides the reader with a luminous effect.”
Antonio Muñoz Molina
“Comparable with Sebald and Magris.”
El Periódico
After the death of his ex-wife, a movie director with an enigmatic K
for a surname travels erratically throughout Europe to film one last
strange film, following the trail of a lost idea of Europe’s identity. On a train he meets
Sidonie, a journalist who is on her way to The Hague to attend the trial of one of
Yugoslavia’s ex-leaders. An unexpected discovery that can change the course of said trial
will force the main characters to embark upon a frenetic trip, beset by constant threats.
They will travel together to Berlin, Zurich, Rome, Paris and The Hague on the trail of the
confession of a key witness and, unexpectedly, they will come up against two realities: a
terrible revelation and an illumination they were not counting on, the truth of their
personal history through a parallel trajectory across the outline of their very own lives.
Passenger K is an action-packed novel, with a flavor of the novels by John le Carré, echoes
of Michel Butor and Hitchcock’s purest elegance, dealing with mixed identities in today’s
Europe. A dazzling and lucid narrative that plumbs the depths of human nature, in the
construction of truth with the use of sketchy images and in the value of yielding to the
interests that are pronounced when it is necessary to look the other way.
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10. Adolfo García Ortega (Spain, 1958) has been involved in the world of books and literature since
1980, as translator, literary critic, journalist (El País) and editor (he was Director of Seix Barral). As
writer, his works enjoy a distinguished reputation. Among his very diverse books the novels, Lobo
(Wolf, Ollero & Ramos 2000), Autómata (Desolation Island, Bruguera 2006), Café Hugo (Bar Hugo,
Bruguera 2007) and El comprador de aniversarios (The Anniversary Buyer, Seix Barral 2008. Dutch
rights to Mouria) stand out: all which bestowed upon him considerable public recognition receiving
important Awards as well as being widely translated. El mapa de la vida (The Map of Life, Seix Barral
2009) is his previous novel.
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11. Gonzalo Garrido
Las flores de Baudelaire
(Baudelaire's Flowers)
Alrevés, 2012 / 255 pages
We are all traitors at some point in time in our lives.
The protagonist of Baudelaire's Flowers, Alfredo Maldonado, knows all
too well. A prestigious photographer of the industrialized Bilbao of
1917, he finds himself in the midst of the brutal murder of the
daughter of one of the city's wealthiest families.
Maldonado, a skeptic with a dark hobby, will dissect with his caustic
humor a society indifferent to the tragedy of the First World War. The result of his
enquiries will lead him to unravel a plot of family and financial interests, with evil as its
common denominator. The novel shows that ambition and meanness are not only
attributes of our times.
Gonzalo Garrido (Spain, 1963) is a writer and communications consultant. During his professional
trajectory and at various stages of his life he has lived in Strasbourg and Brussels. Since 2010, he
keeps the blog Junk Literature, an experimental site as a narrative space. Furthermore, he promotes
the Encuentro de Blogs Literarios (Meeting of Literary Blogs), or EBLS for its Spanish acronym.
Baudelaire's Flowers is his first foray into the novel genre.
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12. Juan Gómez-Jurado
La leyenda del ladrón
(The Legend of the Thief)
Planeta, 2012 / 600 pages
50,000 copies sold in Spain
Sevilla, 1587, the most important city in the world. With a hundred
and fifty thousand hungry mouths to feed and the plague, which had
already decimated thousands of lives, this was the perfect breeding
ground for the picaresque to flourish. The underworld, wheeling and
dealing, corruption, beggars and prostitutes, noblemen and merchants,
swordsmen and thieves—all lived behind the city's famous walls. In
those days, a party of soldiers led by the King's commissioner for
supplies, a so-called Miguel de Cervantes, will reach a country inn in
the city of Écija. Carried away by compassion, Miguel will rescue a child from the plague,
who later becomes a key figure in his life: Sancho de Écija. At death's door, the child
clutched his mother's dead hand, whom he had cared for till the end. Struck by the kid's
bravery, Miguel risk's his neck and decides to take him to an orphanage in Seville for his
care and education. Sancho was a 13-year-old genius whom no-one had given a chance.
However, his strong personality and lack of social skills—besides the fights he gets into to
defend the meekest—result in his not obtaining his dream-job, as assistant accountant at
the home of a banker. As punishment for his rebelliousness, he is sent to work under the
orders of a cruel innkeeper who abuses him non-stop.
Nevertheless, Sancho's life will change abruptly on the day a strange English gentleman,
vagabond, actor and poet by the name of William Shakespeare gets him into trouble with
the innkeeper, which results in his receiving such a beating that he is bedridden for three
days. During this time, William keeps him company by telling him stories which will change
his conception of the world and of himself. Thus, the novel delves into the life of young
Sancho. An adventurer who longs to take to sea for the New World. To embark upon a
ship and plow the oceans far from that infested and dangerous city of misers and thieves...
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Serbia Laguna
Juan Gómez-Jurado (Spain, 1977) is a writer and journalist. His first two novels Espía de Dios
(God´s Spy, 2006) and Contrato con Dios (The Moses Expedition, 2007) launched him to international
recognition. His third novel, El emblema del traidor (The Traitor´s Emblem, 2008), won the
prestigious City of Torrevieja Award. His latest novel is La leyenda del ladrón (The Legend of the Thief,
2012). Until today his novels have been published in 40 countries and sold over a million copies
worldwide.
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13. Tomás González
La luz difícil (Chiaroscuro)
Alfaguara, Sept. 2011 / 144 pages
“Tomás González, has the potential of
becoming a classic of Latin American literature. On reading him I had the feeling he
was a writer with lots pureness.” Elfriede Jelinek, writer, Nobel Prize winner
“If García Márquez is Wagner, Tomás González is Bob Dylan.”
Marianne Ponsford, directress of the magazine Arcadia, Colombia
Jacob has decided to die. A traffic accident has left him paraplegic and
in lots of pain, making life impossible. David, his father is faced with
the toughest of trials: be witness to the process. While Jacob travels
somewhere in the US where putting an end to his life will be possible,
David withstands the hours in New York clutching to the hope of an inevitable question:
will his son back away at the last minute? Practically twenty years later—with a worn-out
vision and with an alert spirit—David pieces together his life in New York, his days as a
prolific painter, Jacob’s accident and, especially, the moments of waiting along with his
family, while his son heads towards the fate he has chosen. The pain’s stupor doesn’t
prevent him from beholding beauty with infinite care, and his story is a statement of life
itself, so immense and powerful that it even contains death. This vigorous and moving
novel lucidly represents the narrative of an author who has always been interested in
exploring the closeness of opposites, showing us that when death is imminent, there is
nothing left for us to do except to tell and vindicate life.
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Seuil France
S. Fischer Germany
Thousand Books Korea
Signatuur The Netherlands
Tomás González (Colombia, 1950) began writing in the seventies, after studying philosophy at the
Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He worked as a barman in the discotheque El Goce Pagano,
which published his first novel towards the end of 1983. Since then his books have been published
in Colombia, Mexico, Germany and Spain. Also in 1983 he left for USA and lived in Miami for
three years, and sixteen in New York, where he wrote much of his work, while making a living as a
translator. He returned to Colombia in 2002. His works include the novels Primero estaba el mar
(First there was the Sea, La otra orilla 1983), Para antes del olvido (For Before Forgetfulness, La otra orilla
1987, winner of the V Plaza & Janes Prize), La historia de Horacio (The Story of Horace, La otra
orilla 2000), Los caballitos del diablo (The Devil’s Little Horses, La otra orilla 2003) and Abraham
entre bandidos (Abraham Amid The Bandits, Alfaguara, 2010).
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14. Susana
Gross
Maggie Scratch
Circaidy Gregory Press, 2012 / 144 pages
Maggie Scratch, searching for seeds...
How does a rebel from the Jewish suburbs of Philadelphia ultimately
find a home in the Son Moses Valley on the island of Ibiza? Maggie
Scratch tells this story. About to turn thirty-two in 1980, a self-styled
columnist for The Ibiza News, Maggie reports current events from her
century old farmhouse while reliving past adventures. From coming of age in the 60’s in
Elkins Park, to college in Boston in the 70’s, to a teepee in the California redwoods and
then to a palapa in Mexico, Maggie explores the world. It is men she apparently pursues,
but her best friend, Seneca Stone sums up Maggie with a metaphor: “Maggie Scratch
searching for seeds.” Maggie wonders if she will find a way to get pregnant or have to
break up with Izzy, the charismatic painter, because of his vasectomy. While driven to plant
a seed in herself, Maggie hears her grandmother’s voice saying, “certain paths are meant to
be.” She stumbles upon a man in a forest and wonders if he is meant to be… her stud.
Susana Gross (USA) studied Arts, French Literature and Language at Boston University. After
earning her college degree, Susana spent time living and working in various places until she arrived
in Ibiza where she was a journalist for The Ibiza News. When her daughter was born, she moved to
Barcelona and began writing for Televisión Española as scriptwriter, developing sitcoms, pilots, and
writing sketches and gags for a hit quiz show. In the following years, she collaborated with
independent film producers and wrote her feature length film screenplay, The Blue Shepherd.
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15. Jordi Ledesma
Narcolepsia (Dreams)
Alrevés, 2012 / 356 pages
Runner up to the Premio Silverio Cañada in the Semana Negra of Gijon
Julio Perla Díaz was born in the Barceloneta, a neighborhood of the
Spanish city Barcelona, at the end of the seventies. From an early age,
his life is lived on the streets, playing while he sees how drugs are
peddled at every corner. Until 1989, when an incident at a
demonstration against the eviction of the neighbors and shanty town
dwellers in order to revamp the neighborhood for the “new
Barcelona”, prior to the Olympic games, changes his life, turning him
into Julio El Perla—all while the people that he knew in his youth completely change. Julio
moves in and out of discotheques like a fish in the water, sells pills, has his first sexual and
romantic adventures and, from his native neighborhood, quickly moves towards the city's
periphery. And from there, onto the world, led by John Claudio, a Colombian capo who
will take him on as his disciple. The protagonist's vital experiences will be conditioned by
his spells of narcolepsy, with unexpected and uncontrollable bouts of sleep that will keep
the reader in a border-line between the reality of what is being told and the fiction
provoked when Julio sleeps. Moreover, the novel offers, a trustworthy picture of the
Barcelona of the nineties, prior and after the Olympics. A decade in which the urban and
social landscape of working-class and poor neighborhoods radically changed, giving way to
the city of design and new architecture.
Jordi Ledesma (Spain, 1979) studied in the Escola Taller d'Art i Oficis of the government of
Tarragona, Spain. In 2003, he published the book of poems “May Water” (Silvia Editorial). Dreams
is his first novel.
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16. Baltasar Magro
La luz del Guernica
(The Light of Guernica)
Roca Editorial, 2012 / 288 pages
A journey through the life and work of the Spanish painter and a
sincere homage to the masterpiece that has best captured the tragedy
of the Spanish Civil War. Pablo Ruiz Picasso travels to Florence from
Paris, the city were he resides. It is in that city that he first sees a
painting by Rubens, The Disasters of War, which will cause a lasting
impression and which will be the source of his most famous work:
Guernica.
Back in Paris, the Civil War breaks out and, on the 27th
of April of 1937, Jaime Sabartés,
Picasso's loyal secretary shows him the newspaper covers of the Guernica bombing. This is
impacting and appalling piece of news, the horror by the well-planned general massacre,
profoundly disturbs Picasso and his friends. The Spanish Ambassador takes advantage of
the up-coming International Exposition to ask Picasso for a mural and, although the
deadline is quite tight, the painter accepts the commission. In “The Light of Guernica”,
Magro has recreated in great detail and with profound admiration one of the most
important paintings of all times and, certainly, the best graphic expression of a terrible
massacre
Baltasar Magro (Spain, 1949) holds degrees in Art History and Journalism. He has been working
for TV for over thirty years as a script-writer of cultural programmes, documentaries and leisure, as
well as director, amongst the programmes he directs is the famous ‘Informe Semanal’ (TVE), The
Weekly Report, which has been aired for over 25 years. In 1984 he introduced to the Spanish
audiovisual world the concept of investigated journalism, with a programme called ‘Teleobjetivo’
Telephoto (lens). He began his literary career with the novel El círculo de Juanelo (Juanelo’s Circle,
2001). This was followed by La sangrienta luna (The Bleeding Moon, 2002), Carrosanto (Carrosanto,
2002), Los nueve desconocidos (New Strangers, 2004), En primera linea (The First Line, 2006), La
hora de Quevedo (Quevedo’s Hour, 2008), En el corazón de la ciudad levítica (In the Heart of the
Levitical City, 2011) and La luz del Guernica (The Light of the Guernica, 2012).
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17. J.L. Martín Nogales
Herederos del paraíso
(Heirs of Paradise)
Ediciones B, 2012 / 320 pages
The disappearance of an object from Madrid's Palacio Real, triggers a
discreet police investigation. During those six days of 1981, the
Spanish political transition is going through one of its most delicate
moments, due to terrorist and military pressure.
The missing object belongs to the period in which Velasquez, Felipe
IV and the Count-Duke of Olivares lived. The theft takes place at a
moment in which social tensions threaten Spain's Prime Minister,
Adolfo Suárez, and King Juan Carlos himself. How to investigate when
the unstable political situation calls for discretion and secrecy?
This novel examines the monarchy's controversial inheritances. Heirs of Paradise combines,
at an intense pace, the best police fiction with a rigorous recreation of historical events.
J.L. Martín Nogales (Spain, 1965) is a Dr. in Philology, literature professor and UNED director in
Pamplona. He has published books and articles on contemporary Spanish literature, focusing in
particular on the novel, short story and journalism. Among his titles there are “Cincuenta años de
novela española”, “Los cuentos de Ignacio Aldecoa”; a selection and prologue of writings on books
by Arturo Pérez-Reverte; “Artículos literarios en la prensa (1975-2005)” and the anthology “El
cuento español” (1975-199), that was edited in Spanish, English and German. Presently he is a
Director at the magazine Lucanor, and runs the book collection “Noches de Relatos”, and the
Mario Vargas Llosa NH Short-Stories Prize. He is author of the novels La mujer de Roma (The
Woman of Rome, Ediciones B 2008) and Los herederos del paraíso (Heirs of Paradise, Ediciones B
2012).
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18. Núria Masot
El sepulcro del cuervo
(The crow sepulcher)
Ediciones B, 2012 / 359 pages
In the Templar Commandery of the Masdéu, in the region of Roselló,
a macabre discovery is made: three bodies, strangely tied up, issue
forth from the earth, in a dumpster next to the Order’s house. No one
knows their identity or from whence they originate.
In the Pyrenees, Guillem of Montclar keeps a close eye on the
movements of the French spies who are gearing up for war, when he
receives an urgent message from his good friend Jacques the Breton.
The three unearthed bodies await their arrival in silence, perhaps
convinced of recovering their identity and return to life. The shadow of his master, Bernard
Guils, blurs in-between the gloom of memory and glides across the land of his forefathers
with the power of legend. His footsteps still resound in the mysterious path, and project
his invisible presence at each step of the investigation carried out by Guillem de Montclar.
Núria Masot (Spain, 1949) collaborated during her initial years with el Diari de Barcelona, Radio
Barcelona, Enciclopèdia Catalana and Editorial Bruguera. In the world of theater she founded and
directed the company Roba Estesa and, from 1979 to 1986, directed the theater ensemble Cúpula
Venus. She presently devotes her time to painting and literature in a village of l´Émpordá. She has
published four novels related to the saga of Guillem de Montclar. The Templar´s Shadow (2005), The
Snake´s Labyrinth (2005), The Golden Key (2006) and The Gates to Evil (2007). In this second tetralogy
she continuous her journey throughout the Crown of Aragón, starting from the Roselló in The
Raven´s Sepulcher. The following novel will be set in the Kingdom of Mallorca, the third in the
Kingdom of Valencia, and the fourth in Aragonese territory. Her novels have been translated into
eleven languages such German (Heyne), Italian (Mondadori), Portuguese (Dom Quixote)…
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19. Efraim Medina Reyes
Lo que todavía no sabes del pez hielo
(What you still don´t know about the Icefish)
Seix Barral, 2012 / 502 pages
Nothing is what it looks like and even less what it is, claims Teo who
in total keeping with this sentence, prefers to hide his true name. The
truth is that he is twenty seven, still lives with his mother, suffers from
a light type of lupus and idolizes Lenny Bruce. Locked up in his tiny
room he practices, among other things, the strange skill of escaping
reality until one day, the rain forces him into a bar where he meets
Lena. She, a prestigious lawyer, rich and shrewd, embodies the tip of
thread of an entangled ball of twine. Her presence will give Teo´s
monotonous reality an almost unbearable forcefulness.
What you still don´t know about the Icefish is a precise labyrinth whose roots evoke Kafka and
Beckett´s works, as well as other masters of the absurd. With an elegant and expressive
prose, Efraim Medina, leads us to the intimate-most regions of filial love, the creative
obsession and eroticism. But this is only the visible part of the iceberg beneath which is
drawn a harsh portrait of the human condition.
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Efraim Medina Reyes (Colombia, 1967) was awarded the National Award for Literature
Colcultura with his work Cinema árbol y otros cuentos (Cinema Tree and Other Stories, Seix Barral
2006). Among his novels, stand out Técnicas de masturbación entre Batman y Robin (Masturbation
Techniques between Batman and Robin, Destino 2003) and Érase una vez el amor pero tuve que matarlo,
winner of the National Award for Novel awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Colombia and
published by Planeta (Brazil), 13e note (France), Ivan Rotta (Finland) and Feltrinelli (Italy).
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20. Jorge Molist
Prométeme que serás libre
(Promise me that you will be free)
Temas de hoy, 2011 / 768 pages
One morning in 1484, a band of pirates assault the small village of
Llafranc. Ramon Serra dies trying to defend his family, but is unable to
prevent his wife and daughter from being abducted. In his agony he
asks his twelve year old son: “Promise me that you will be free”. After
losing his family, Joan and his little brother travel to Barcelona. There,
Joan works as an apprentice in the Corró family’s bookstore, who he
soon comes to love as his new family. These are troubling times and
the bookseller and his wife are burned at the stake by the Spanish
Inquisition for defending the freedom of speech in literature. This new
loss reasserts for Joan his deepest desires; to rescue what is left of his
family, recuperate his home in Italy and to become a bookseller, but he finds himself
accused of killing a man and is condemned to serve as a rower in the galleys of the feared
admiral Bernat de Vilamarí. Sardinia, Sicily, Naples, Rome, and Genoa are the scenes of his
odyssey. He soon participates as a galley slave and as a gunner in various battles, meeting
extraordinary characters; he becomes involved in the intrigues and fights desperately for his
love and to keep his promise.
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Jorge Molist (Spain, 1951) has an Industrial Engineering Degree from the Polytechnic University
of Barcelona, and an MBA from ESADE. He started his professional career in an American
multinational company of fast-moving consumer goods, which led him to live in different places in
Spain and the USA. Back in Europe he settled in Madrid and took up executive positions in
different companies. He was responsible for business in several European countries and has chaired
business associations in his sector. In January 1996 he started to write what would be his first novel,
Los muros de Jericó (The Walls of Jericho), which was published in Spain in the year 2000. The core
of the novel is the author’s experience in multinational companies, and the clash of spirituality and
materialism. In the year 2002 he published Presagio (Presage), which takes place in the Mexican Baja
California and the North American California, and deals with the cultural differences in the two
territories. El anillo (The Ring, 2004) became a big success for both critics and readers and became
an international success with translation into 21 languages: Planeta (Brazil), Bertelsmann (China),
Enalios (Greece), Sirene (The Netherlands), Sperling (Italy), Daekyio (Korea), AST (Russia),
Crown (Taiwan) and Atria (USA) among others. La reina oculta (The Hidden Queen, 2007) gained
the prestigious Alfonso X the Wise Historical Novel Award.
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21. Félix J. Palma
El mapa del cielo (The Map of the Sky)
Plaza&Janés, 2012 / 744 pages
New York Times bestselling author
“Palma is a master of ingenious plotting.” Kirkus Reviews
“The Map of the Sky" keeps the reader guessing, checking and thinking,
all the while providing many sidelights on the literary history of sci-fi itself.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“A cross-genre masterpiece” - Associated Press
In the sweltering summer of 1835, a man made the world dream by
disclosing that the moon was inhabited by unicorns, bat men and other
fantastic creatures. And although it was no long before it was proven that the whole thing
was a hoax, many preferred continuing to believe that the dreams which could make their
lives more beautiful were stocked up there. More than sixty years later, this man´s great-
granddaughter, Emma Harlow, sough-after by New York´s cream of the crop, knows that
she will only be able to fall in love with someone who will make the world dream, as her
great-grandfather had done. This is why she demands from her most indefatigable suitor,
Montgomery Gilmore, who recreates the extraterrestrial invasion described in H.G. Wells´
The War of the Worlds. But nothing seems impossible for this millionaire: the Martians will
invade the earth, even if this time around it is for the sake of love. What happens when
dreams turn into nightmares? Must we quit dreaming?
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Félix J. Palma (Spain, 1968) has been recognized by the critics as one of today´s 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), El menor espectáculo del mundo (The World’s Smallest Show, Páginas de
Espuma 2010) and the YA novels La hormiga que quiso ser astronauta (The Ant that wanted to become
an Astronaut, Quorum 2001), Las corrientes oceánicas (The Ocean Currents, Algaida 2006 -winner of
the 2005 Luis Berenguer Award for Novel), and Las interioridades (Interiors, Castalia 2002). El mapa
del tiempo (The Map of Time, Algaida 2010. Published into 25 languages), El mapa del cielo (The Map
of the Sky, Plaza&Janés 2012) and El mapa del infierno (The Map of Hell, USA & Canada rights
already acquired by Atria) composed his Victorian Trilogy.
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22. Andrés Pérez Domínguez
El silencio de tu nombre
(The Silence of your name)
Plaza&Janés, 2012 / 744 pages
January, 1950. When Erika Walter, widow to a secret German agent,
flees to Madrid with an important file of documents that compromise
high-ranking Nazi officials in exile, her lover, Martín Navarro, a
former member of the PCE (Spanish Communist Party), is forced to
abandon Paris in her pursuit. Although he knows that jail awaits him
in Spain if he is captured by the Francoist police or death by treason if
his Party comrades discover him, Martín risks everything, including his
political convictions, in order to rejoin Erika. With the police, the
Nazis, the Communists and the CIA hot on his heels, both lovers will be caught up in a spy
ring and hidden interests more complex and dangerous than they could have ever
imagined.
Plagued by disenchanted spies, convinced idealists and heroes in spite of themselves, The
Silence of Your Name brings together history, adventure, intrigue and romance. A novel
that skillfully reflects how in a Europe devastated by intolerance and political fanaticism,
there is still room for love, friendship, honor and hope.
Andrés Pérez Domínguez (Spain, 1969) has received more than fifty literary awards for his work.
He is the author of the novels La Clave Pinner (The Pinner Code, 2004), El Factor Einstein (Einstein’s
Factor, 2008), El Síndrome de Mowgli (The Mowgli Syndrome - Luis Berenguer International Award
for Fiction 2008), El violinista de Mauthausen (The violinist of Mauthausen - Ateneo de Sevilla Award
2009) and El silencio de tu nombre (The Silence of your Name, 2012).
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23. Sergio Pitol
Los mejores cuentos
(The Best Stories)
Anagrama / 248 pages
Cervantes Prize - Juan Rulfo Prize
Reading him, one has the impression—which has always pursued me
because at the end of the day he is my teacher and is so for
very important reasons—of being before the best Spanish writer
of our time.” Enrique Vila-Matas
Pitol says that he wrote his first short stories in a country house, where
he was recovering from a romantic breakup. His intention was to
despise the world, but he did not succeed. During the day he would
climb a mountain range to surround himself of a romantic aura, decadent, even diabolical.
He went in search of rugged cliffs, and the cliffs of Dover and a trip to England came to
mind, and between the wish to travel and the contemplation of a marvelous landscape he
would doze off on the grass, to afterwards return home beaming with joy and plunge into
the readings of James, Kafka, Faulkner, Borges, Rulfo. One night he wrote a story,
“Victorio Ferri Tells a Story”, and another one, all bitter and cruel, on characters touched
by the devil. For years he wrote short stories, and then novels. All of it is a product of
those stories written fifty years ago. Now, when Pitol has become one of Latin America's
most essential writers of our times, appears this personal anthology of his best stories,
prologued with an extensive text by Enrique Vila-Matas.
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Sergio Pitol (Mexico, 1933) is the author of eight short story books, among which figure Mephistos
´ Waltz, published in Spain by Anagrama and awarded (with it´s original title Bukhara Nocturne)
the Xavier Villaurrutia Novel Award, for best short stories collection published in Mexico in 1982,
and five novels: The Flute's Twang (1972), Floral Games (1982), Love Parade (1984), winner of the
Premio Herralde de Novela, Taming the Wild Heron (1988) and Married Life (1991), published in
the aforesaid collection. These three last works, although independent from one another, have been
published as Triptico del Carnaval (Carnival Triptych). His books have also been published saddled
in-between various literary forms; The Art of Fugue (1997), The Voyage (2001) and the Vienna Magician
(2005), collected in Trilogy of Memory. Afterwards, his personal anthology appeared The Best Short
Stories (2005). Sergio Pitol has received numerous awards, two which standout in the Spanish
speaking world for a life-time achievement, namely the Juan Rulfo of Mexico and the Cervantes in
Spain. His work has been translated into over 17 languages. Una autobiografía soterrada (A Veiled
Autobiography, Anagrama, 2011) is his last work.
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24. Sergio Ramírez
La fugitiva (The Fugitive)
Alfaguara, 2011 / 310 pages
Three feminine voices narrate the dramatic life of a woman who, in a
closed and provincial society, chose the accursed profession of a
writer. Three voices, three ways of conceiving life, friendship and love,
but all with a common denominator: to tell us who was the much
desired and envied Amanda Solano. These voices, each with its own
range, will take us back to the Costa Rica of the first half of the
previous century, where we meet a character marked by her beauty and
genius, and by her defiant sense of liberty, and by her greatest
weakness: men. In a convulsive period, when women were denied
their own life choices, Amanda Solano had no other option but exile,
within and outside of her country. Sergio Ramírez assumes the challenge of putting a voice
to three very different feminine characters, and does so with a simple and moving style
which turns us into accomplices of this singular woman’s story, who lived off her legend
and died feeling forgotten by all. Even today, her grave is hardly marked by a number.
Sergio Ramírez (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 Ramírez 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 José María Arguedas Latinamerican
Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Alfaguara International Novel Award and the José 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 recent books include Catalina y Catalina (Catalina and Catalina, Alfaguara
2001), Sombras nada mas (Shadows nothing more, Alfaguara 2003), Mil y una muertes (A Thousand
Deaths Plus One, Alfaguara 2005), El Reino Animal (Animal Kingdom, Alfaguara 2006), El cielo llora
por mí (The Sky weeps for Me, Alfaguara 2008. French rights acquired by Métailié) and La fugitiva
(The Fugitive, Alfaguara 2011). His work has been widely translated.
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25. Jacinto Rey
El hombre de El Cairo
(The Man from Cairo)
Viceversa, 2011 / 336 pages
A man shows up dead in a warehouse with diamonds in his pocket; in
his car, parked not far from there, the police find a missile launcher.
It’s inspector Cristina Molen, of the homicide brigade of Amsterdam,
who must resolve the case. Although in all appearances the main
suspects are clear, Cristina finds herself immersed in a spiral of
startling events which will take her to a city diametrically opposed to
hers: Cairo.
Backlist
El ultimo cliente (The Last Client) Viceversa, 2009 / 250 pages
A fascinating thriller that will take the reader into the heart of Amsterdam. A
hanged woman is found in an Amsterdam floating house. Police Inspector Cristina
Molen investigates what appears to be a suicide. When hours later the corpse of a
prostitute is discovered in a run-down Amsterdam hotel, Inspector Molen starts to
believe that the two deaths are somehow related, and that nothing is what it seems
to be.
Jacinto Rey (Spain, 1972) worked for several multinational companies in Germany and Switzerland
after completing his studies in Economics in Spain and in the UK. His first novel El cirujano de las
Indias (The Surgeon of the Indies) was published in 2007. El último cliente (The Last Client, Viceversa
2009) and El hombre de El Cairo (The Man from Cairo, Viceversa 2011) are the first two thrillers in
the series featuring Amsterdam police inspector Cristina Molen. A polyglot and impenitent
traveller, Jacinto Rey currently lives in France.
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26. Marta Rivera
La vida después (Life after)
Planeta, 2011 / 350 pages
Victoria has for all appearances what seems to be an enviable life in
New York: she teaches at a university, has a rich and handsome
husband, and a penthouse on the Upper East Side. When she receives
notice of Jan’s death, her best friend, she returns to Madrid for the
funeral. There she meets the sophisticated Chloe, an old flame of Jan’s;
with her daughter, the rebellious Solange; Marga, Jan’s wife; and his
eccentric mother in law, Shirley… Four women who never quite
thought that their relationship with Jan was ever altogether sincere. Life after Jan travels
through a complex map of feelings, where conflict reigns, jealousy and envy, but also
affection and loyalty.
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Marta Rivera de la Cruz (Spain, 1970) has a degree in Communications, and was awarded the
Ateneo Joven de Sevilla Award for Novel 1998 with her first novel Que veinte años no es nada
(Age Twenty is Nothing) which was greatly acclaimed by the critics. Following this she has published
Linus Daff, Inventor de historias (Linus Daff, Story Inventor), Las noches más hermosas (The most
Beautiful Nights) and the essay Tristezas de amor (Love’s Sadness). She was finalist of the 2006 Planeta
Novel Award with En tiempo de prodigios (In the Time of Prodigies). In 2008 she was awarded the
Anaya Award for Children’s and Young Adult’s Literature with La primera tarde después de
Navidad (The First Afternoon after Christmas). Among her latest works we can find the novel La
importancia de las cosas (The Importance of Things), the crossover novel Sombras (Shadows), and two
books for Children: Mujeres admirables, Ellas hicieron historia (Admirable women, Who made History)
and Mi primer libro sobre Ellas (My first book about Them). La vida después (Life After) is her last
novel.
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27. Javier Rovira
Sesión privada (Private session)
Temas de Hoy, 2011 / 488 pages
Madrid, 1950s, a sedan glides beneath the rain in search of prostitutes
for a very special job, a secret filming. Mario drives and his boss,
Miguel Canales, entertains himself in those instances in which he
recreates in an erotic code the scenes that the Board of
Cinematographic Censorship has finished cutting. Until Carla appears,
and along with her the evidence that they live in a world controlled by
corruption and imposture.
In autumn of 2001, Marcos Alvar follows in the trail of two lovers that committed suicide
at the beginning of the postwar period. After a baffling discovery in the spot were they
were buried, Marcos embarks upon a complex investigation all while witnessing
dumbfounded as his own life irredeemably comes asunder.
And thus, with a double start that pays homage to the black novel, Private session will peel
away its many layers till leaving a compact structure similar to a Matryoshka doll: from the
war excesses to our century´s lack of memory; from Francoists Spain´s cultural perversions
to a crude present-day report on the lack of affection and tradition.
Javier Rovira (Spain, 1967) is a concert pianist and a conservatory teacher in Madrid as well as a
recent graduate in Spanish philology. Trained in Madrid, Paris and Brussels, he has given recitals in
music halls in all five continents and has performed as a soloist with various orchestras. For years
he has combined his musical and teaching activities with his passion for literature, and as a result of
this effort is his recently published novel Private session.
Javier Sierra
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28. El ángel perdido (The Lost Angel)
Planeta, 2011 / 544 pages
“From its explosive opening to its thrilling conclusion, The Lost Angel is a
rocket-paced, page turner. Fans of Dan Brown will find everything they´re
looking for – and so much more – in this intriguing, provocative novel, as rich
in historical detail as it is tuned in to our modern day nightmares.” Lisa Unger
“A coiling plot, full on insightful characters, with an intriguing mix of hopes and
fears. Javier Sierra plays readers like a virtuoso – a stickler for detail – with
imagination galore – but always keeping the story ringing with unadorned
reality. Just a solid, drum-tight winner of a book.” Steve Berry
“Pure thriller” Qué Leer
“A high-voltage experience” La Vanguardia
While working on the restoration of the Portico da Gloria of Santiago de Compostela, Julia
Alvarez receives a devastating piece of news: her husband has been kidnapped in a
mountainous region of northeast Turkey. From that moment on, Julia, unwillingly, will be
involved in an ambitious race to control two ancient stones that, supposedly, permit
contact with supernatural entities, and have aroused the interest from a mysterious oriental
sect to the President of the United States. The Lost Angel bears the characteristic Sierra
hallmarks, combining action and documentation, dazzling narrative feats and an invitation
to reflect upon our physical existence on Earth and the connection every reader has with
the Beyond.
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Javier Sierra (Spain, 1971) studied Journalism at the Complutense University of Madrid and is
author of the New York Times bestselling novel La cena secreta (The Secret Supper, Plaza&Janés
2004). He is also author of three other successful novels: La dama azul (The Lady in Blue, Martínez
Roca 1998), Las puertas templarias (The Templar Gates, Martínez Roca 2000) and El ángel perdido
(The Lost Angel, Planeta 2011). Amongst his non-fiction books, concerning historical and scientific
enigmas, we can find El secreto egipcio de Napoleón (Napoleon’s Egyptian Secret, Esfera de los libros
2002) and La ruta prohibida (The Forbidden Road, Planeta 2007). His work has been translated into
over forty languages.
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29. Jorge Volpi
La tejedora de sombras
(The shadow Weaver)
Alfaguara, 2012 / 164 pages
Planeta-Casamérica Award 2012
When they meet up in New York in 1925, Henry Murray is an
ambitious Harvard doctor married to a rich heiress from Boston, and
Christiana Morgan, a tempestuous art student, wife of a war veteran.
Attracted by a power beyond their control, they both travel to
Switzerland to be analyzed by Jung, who submerges Christiana into a
profound state of trance. The young lady's visions, dutifully drawn in
her notepads, will become the point of departure in an experiment that seeks absolute love,
and which will last for the next forty two years.
The shadow Weaver is the portrait of a woman that strove to confront the male universe of
her time, and the disquieting retelling of an obsession taken to extreme.
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Jorge Volpi (Mexico, 1968) is the author of the following novels: The Peace of Tombs and Melancholic
Temperament. With In Search of Klingsor (awarded with the Biblioteca Breve and Deux Océans-
Grinzane Cavour prizes) he began a “Trilogy of the Twentieth Century”, which following parts are
The End of Madness and It won’t be Earth. He has also written the short novels collected in the volume
Days of Wrath, as well as Healing Your Sour Skin, The Devastated Garden and Dark Forest Dark. He is the
author of the essays Imagination and Power, War and Words, Contagious Lies (Premio Mazatlán for best
book in 2008). Bolivar´s Insomnia (Premio Debate-Casa de América 2009) and Reading the Mind. In
2009 he received the Premio José Donoso of Chile for his entire output. He has taught at the
following colleges and universities: Emory, Cornell, Las Americas de Puebla, Pau, Católica de Chile,
Nacional Autónoma of Mexico and Princeton. He has received a fellowship form The Guggenheim
Foundation and is a fellow at the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Mexico (Mexico´s National
System of Creators). He is a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of France, and the Order of
Isabel la Católica of Spain. He writes for the Reforma and El País newspapers as well as the Nation.
His books have been translated into twenty five languages.
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30. Non Fiction
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Mònica Fusté
El mejor año de tu vida
(The Best Year of Your Life)
Alrevés, 2011 / 206 pages
The Best Year of Your Life is a metaphor used to pass from our
unconsciousness to our consciousness, to holistic maturity, one in
which readers will identify with and open up their hearts, abandoning
the mind’s elusion and thus finding their true identity, their ultimate
reality. By means of a very unusual story, Iris, the protagonist, will
undergo a journey to her interior guided by Cristal, an imaginary friend
who is none other than the ever knowing voice of her very own Being.
This adventure will help her liberate herself from mental conditioning
and to escape from the prison that she lives in. In the form of a personal diary, spanning
over a month and sharing daily experiences with other characters, Iris will go through
various stages that will conform and integrate with her mental, physical, spiritual and
emotional being. In this manner, Iris will achieve the balance and interior peace that we all
long for.
With this book, Mònica Fusté invites us to open up to a new paradigm, assuming the
creative power that lies within us, abandoning all kind of victimization and negativity and
learning to flow effortlessly and with harmony through the Cosmos. The Best Year of Your
Life will help you change your perception of reality and teach you how to consciously create
your own existences. This is a book for those who truly want to be free and decide to take
destiny into their own hands.
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Mònica Fusté (Spain) is a personal development writer and professional coach, lecturer and
teacher. She was trained at the prestigious California Coaches Training Institute (CTI), graduating
as Co-Active Coach, and is also a graduate of the International Leadership and Relationships
Program (CRR), certified by ICF. She is a certified coach at the PNL and ICC, founded by Joseph
O’Connor. Possessing a strong sense of achievement, she decided in 2007 to “reinvent” herself,
starting with a new profession and a new life. She resigned from her executive position at a
prestigious international bank where she worked, in order to help others liberate their potential. In
2009 she published her first book: Despierta!! Vives o sobrevives? (Awaken! Are you living or
surviving?). For over than ten years, she has developed her professional career in various investment
banks, living in Spain, the U.K, and Luxemburg. She holds a degree in Business and Economics, a
Masters in International Commerce and Finance and speaks four languages.
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