On 20th November 1936 a man died and a myth was born. Buenaventura Durruti, the mechanic, anarchist gunman, and member of the Barcelona anti-fascist militia.
In the early 1990s, the death of a young boy changes the lives and routines of a group of villagers on the Mediterranean coast who in the last forty years have already lived through huge transformation.
With an attentive and subtle gaze and an unaffected emotiveness, Paloma Díaz-Mas explores the meeting of two stories, two pasts (that of the family and the collective past, the political and the personal), which remains embodied in objects, accoun
'Nobody loved the Pissimbonis. They lived in an ivy-clad house at the top of a hill, far enough away from the other houses for everyone to think of them as living outside the town.
Vicente Friman is the new kid. It’s happened before, so he’s not too worried. But this time is different. This time there’s Barbara, the leader of the Protectors. Or so she thinks.
Sofi lives with her parents and her grandfather in a house near to the wood. Sometimes her grandfather disappears for hours or even days, and returns home seeming very happy, albeit dirty.
Adelaida García Morales is one of the most mysterious figures in recent culture.
Junior, the poly-addicted son of the former mayor Roger Lobus, decides to return to the city of Sierpe where, after suffering an overdose that is on the point of killing him, he finds out that his father has been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Tomorrow All Day is an inspiring and extraordinary book from promising new illustrator Bea Enríquez. The star of the story is a daring, brave, reflexive, sometimes chaotic cat who always follows his dreams.
The only clue to the identity of a serial killer is a strange collection of bible verses, in a race against time in quiet Castellón, as the town is turned upside-down by the macabre discovery of a brutally mutilated body in a town-centre flat.
Lily Meyer is a writer, translator, and critic. Her translations include Claudia Ulloa Donoso’s story collections Little Bird and Ice for Martians. Her ...
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