After what turns out to be a fateful accident, Ana María spent three years in and out of a clinic in Hermosillo, the city in which she spent the last of her lives.
The novel tells the story of a young woman in contemporary Barcelona. It is narrated in the first person with a Joycean ‘a day in the life of…’ style of voice, although the novel takes place over several different days.
In the frenetic final race of the world motorbike speed championships, Gaspar, a young motorcyclist who aspires to be world champion, reflects on his intense professional career: everything that reaching this point means to him, while he considers
Pamplona, the 22nd of May, 1938. ‘You can leave, comrades, we’re free!’. The prisoner’s powerful voice carried across the prison courtyard. Joaquín immediately got up and shook Tomás, who was sitting beside him on the floor of the cell.
La séptima cuerda (‘The Seventh Chord‘) is a novel about flamenco which recounts the challenges faced by a young guitarist in his quest to master this complex art.
Of the many fantastical creatures found throughout literature and cinema, the femme fatale is one of the most frequently recurring and versatile in the last two centuries, although she forms part of a historic bloodline that can be traced back as
Four stories, whose settings are different but share a similar atmosphere, form the microcosm that Clara Pastor skilfully and sensitively recreates for this volume, constructed from wanderings through memory, with its infinite paths, and the guess
Diego jumps from a fifth floor, and from that moment on, the image is drilled into his sister’s mind: six seconds and a body crashing against the ground. She is the one who looks back and tells the story of the two siblings.
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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