The Spanish Civil War has been a source of literary inspiration almost since the moment it finished, and The Boy and the Lost Village is the latest book to draw on its history, set around the events of the Battle of the Ebro and the Fatarella moun
Every afternoon Diana takes the bus home from school. One afternoon, she sits next to a really good-looking boy, but he has to get off at the next stop and they say good bye without exchanging names and telephone numbers.
"Even when we're old," she said in self-mockery, "we never stop being the child we once were." These are the words of Aurora, the protagonist of The Smell of the Waves, but they could have been spoken by anyone.
With 'El primer emperador i la reina Lluna' ('The First Emperor and the Moon Queen'), Jordi Cussà goes further than ever. A daring adventure story about a magnetic and almost mythical figure from Chinese culture: the Emperar Qin Shi Huangdi.
“El raïm inquiet” (La uva inquieta/the restless grape) tells the story of an lively, impatient bunch of grapes that really, really wants to become wine.
Pérez the tooth mouse loved his job. Every night he left his home to collect all the teeth from under the pillows of the little girls and boys, until one day Giménez suddenly appeared and said he was the new tooth mouse! What a mess!
After a sudden death, Luciana is obliged to carry out a final wish for her grandmother: to locate three women and return to them personal objects of great sentimental value (a wedding ring, a locket and an engagement ring.) Doing this means revisi
Lily Meyer is a writer, translator, and critic. Her translations include Claudia Ulloa Donoso’s story collections Little Bird and Ice for Martians. Her ...