Daniela ALCÍVAR BELLOLIO CANDAYA,  2022, 288 p. LITERARY FICTION, spanish (Ecuador) “A luminous and illuminating work, furiously tender” María Bastarós. What The Future Was is the story of a disintegration, the chronicle of a devastating crisis that threatens a marriage, a house, sanity, and unleashes in the narrator an intimate and profound reflection in which writing and life, landscape and affection, memory and future...

David Cabrera Libros del KO, 2022, 256 p., NON-FICTION, LITERARY JOURNALISM, spanish After years of painstaking interviews and research, David Cabrera has produced an absorbing psychological and police drama, which reads like a high tension novel. Original La sombra Territory of representationFrench language More about the rights available for this book sophiesavary@sosavbooks.com

The Distracted Condition is a vast journey that traces, throughout history and culture, the value, the human weight of absent-mindedness, carelessness or distraction. This book will be of interest to readers of the essay genre, but also to readers of history, philosophy, sociology, cultural studies, etc. Jesús GARCIA CIVICO CANDAYA,  2022, 376 p. ESSAY, spanish The Distracted Condition is a fascinating invitation to a cultural journey...

Marià Veloy Bromera, 2022, 327 p., Novel, catalan Grants Ramón Llull for translation available Original El món comença Long spanish sample available Territory of representationFrench language More about the rights available for this book sophiesavary@sosavbooks.com

Pablo Herrán de Viu Altamarea, 2020, 208 p., Novel, spanish Original Mientras pudimos Sample in english available Territory of representationFrench language More about the rights available for this book sophiesavary@sosavbooks.com

Gildas Girodeau Horsain, 2022, 246 p. FICTION, Detective Novel, french When Alfons Duru discovers a decapitated illegal immigrant in his vat of Banyuls wine, his world is swept away by a veritable tsunami. Paul Feder gets involved in the old man’s affairs, comes across mafiosi from La Jonquera, unscrupulous thugs from Collioure, and a not-so-gentleman who organises parties in a château in Saint Jean Lasseille; not forgetting the cliffs of...

Marta APONTE ALSINA CANDAYA, 2022, 208 p., NOVEL, spanish National Novel Prize of the Pen Club of Puerto Rico 2007 Marta Aponte Alsina is considered the great contemporary master of Puerto Rican narrative. Cristina Rivera Garza included her in a selection of 12 must-read Latin American women authors, published in Publisher’s Weekly magazine in 2018. At once a novel of family saga, a travelogue, a story of initiation and growth, a hybrid...

Gustavo FAVERÓN PATRIAU CANDAYA 2021, 352 p. LITERARY ESSAY, spanish An essay written by a bookish detective: an investigation into the origins and meanings of one of the most important short stories in world literature, The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges. The Order of the Aleph is an exploration of Jorge Luis Borges’s aesthetics based on his most famous short story, in a reading that weaves together filology, cartography, filosophy and history...

NOVEL published the 26th of January 2022 David JIMENEZ A formidable docufiction. A mixture of Graham Greene and Kapuscinski, reminiscent of films like Missing or The Year of Living Dangerously Original Title El corresponsal. Una novela inspirada en hechos reales English Sample available Territory of representationFrench language Rights soldPortuguese (Minotauro) More about the rights available for this book...

Álex CHICO CANDAYA, 2021, 256 p. NOVEL / ESSAY, spanish Álex Chico is one of the 10 authors chosen in the second edition of Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation’s “10 out of 30″ project, 2020.A narrative about the blurred margins of identity and a suggestive literary exercise. Sometimes a story begins with a single sentence or the mention of a name. Here it begins when the film director Tomás Acosta meets...

Rafael Guerrero MAR editor, 2nd edition, 2023; CÍRCULO ROJO, 2013, 213 p. DETECTIVE NOVEL, spanish “Rafael Guerrero” serie, #2 Prefaced by Paco Camarasa A real-life Detective, Writer. The novels are based on cases experienced by the author/detective. Rafael Guerrero, a detective, is both author and protagonist of his novels. A case in the turbulent North Africa of 2011 almost cost private detective Rafael Guerrero his life. To forget what...

Armella Leung (Art-mella) POURPENSER, 2017, 2019, 2020, 19 x 29,5 cm. Self Help, Youth, Comics, French 220 000 COPIES SOLD IN TOTAL FOR THE SERIES IN FRENCH #1 Welcoming an emotion : Having a lot of trouble with her emotions, between periods of emotional turmoil and aridity, Art-mella decides one day that it can’t go on any longer, and begins her investigation of emotions in order to feel better. After having participated in many courses,...

Rafael Guerrero MAR editor, 2021, 192 p. DETECTIVE NOVEL, spanish “Rafael Guerrero” serie, #5 10th Wilkie Collins Award for Crime Novels Franchesca plans to murder her husband and induces her lover to help her. But the man hires detective Rafael Guerrero so that this proposal is on record and he can denounce the ideologue with evidence or escape conviction if she acts on her own and implicates him. He is frightened, believing that if she...

Gerard GUIX COLUMNA, 2011, 424 p. FICTION, Catalan Awarded with the XXI Pin i Soler Prize A somewhat fantastic road movie that takes us from Catalonia to London to the centre of Europe, punctuated by flashbacks and music. Five years ago in London Gerard and Anastasia meet casually. Soon after, the girl goes to live with him in Barcelona, ​​where the young boy had tried to turn her in someone other than the Russian student who attracted him, as...

Gerard GUIX COLUMNA, 2013, 176 p. FICTION, Catalan The perfect adaptation of his play Genesi 3.0, a success at the 2003 GREC Festival.Gerard Guix is inspired by the dystopian worlds of three works of science fiction, George Orwell’s 1984, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, to locate its futuristic fable, although the atmosphere, the characters and the story more approach the...

Gerard GUIX FANBOOKS, 2021, 276 p. CROSSOVER, Catalan A story that seems simple at the beginning and ends up taking us into a spiral of facts and emotions that will shake us and reveal the darker side of our society. A novel that echoes an adult novel he wrote ten years ago, Hunting Day, set in the same mountain and snowy village, Vic. For ages 14 and up. 13 years ago, in a mountain village where nothing ever happens, a teenager died during a...

Gilles DEL PAPPAS et Emmanuel PETIT RAMSAY, 2021, 243 p. CRIME FICTION, french Second opus of the Trilogy of football polars, with the Commissioner Clémentine Paccini Tignes, November 97, oxygenation course for the French national team, a local FIFA representative is found with his throat cut and his hands hanged. Casablanca, May 98, Hassan II competition, a young FIFA representative is found dead, with her throat cut. At the scene, in the...

Miguel SERRANO LARRAZ CANDAYA, 2020, 288 p. Fiction, spanish A novel about lost illusions and a disappearing people, about the possibility of changing the past.A unique tribute to science fiction, horror, sentimental novels and other genres of popular literature. Sonia is a girl obsessed with death. Berta’s obsession is the passage of time. Their friendship is inevitable in the Pyrenean village where they spend the summer, a small town...

Fernando PARRA NOGUERAS CANDAYA, 2021, 288 p. Fiction, spanish A novel about identity and hidden desires. About the conflict between what we are, what we want to be and what others expect of us. Eduardo, the son of a powerful publisher, is removed from the family business because of an obscure affair. Banished to a provincial town, he is taken in by his uncle, the editor of a local newspaper, where he first works as a spellchecker and...

Patricia ALMARCEGUI CANDAYA, 2021. Essay, travel book, spanish The discovery, amazement and fascination of an ancient culture. Book eligible for translation grants from the Balearic Islands Lost Notebooks of Japan is the chronicle of a traveller who crosses interior and exterior geographies to recognise herself and assert her voice, to investigate writing as a record of the past, the fragility of women who travel alone and memory as a family...

Fernando CLEMOT PRE-TEXTOS, 2021, 280 p. LITERARY FICTION, spanish “Fiume de Fernando Clemot: preludio poético del fascismo”, José Ovejero A political novel, exhilarating and disturbing, which works on the memory of the past century to better understand our present. In which we experience the fascination that fascism and providential men can produce, and the destruction that they ultimately engender. Fiume September 1919. Two...

Agustín COMOTTO Original Title El peso de las estrellas Foreign rights soldEnglish (AK press) Territory of representationFrench languageAgent for all other language : Oh!Books agencia literaria More about the rights available for this book sophiesavary@sosavbooks.com

Miguel PAJARES RAYO VERDE , 2021, 236 p. NON FICTION, Social Sciences and Politics, Spanish An atlas of the impacts and migrations resulting from the ecological crisis.An appeal on the urgency of changing global policies. The issue of climate refugees is one that demands to be explored in greater depth. Climate change or global change will irreversibly transform the planet, and the most severely affected areas will witness massive human...

Enrique Gracián Original Title Construir el mundo Foreign Rights sold China and Russia Territory of representationFrench languageAgent for all other language : Oh!Books agencia literaria More about the rights available for this book sophiesavary@sosavbooks.com

Ara direu que estic boig Andreu MARTIN ALREVÉS editorial,  2021, 236 p. FICTION, Black Novel, Catalan, Spanish Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants “Now I fall asleep, now I wake up, now I fall asleep”. This is the life of Francesc Ascás, an extravagant young man who hears voices and says strange things, who draws comics and is hooked on the predictions of a television magician, and all of this...

Gerard GUIX   ESTRELLA POLAR 2011, 2011, 2012 Book eligible for TRANSLATION GRANTS from the RAMÓN LLULL INSTITUTE in Barcelona. THE PRODIGY His name is Axel because their parents liked Guns’n’Roses and this was the name of the leader. His name is Axel, but he could have called Odin, the guy from Sweden he has never seen but that each year sends him a birthday gift. Odin is a mysterious and improbable character, and...

Silvia CRUZ Original Title Lady Tyger English sample available Territory of representationFrench language More about the rights available for this book sophiesavary@sosavbooks.com

Héctor JUANATEY Original Title El analista. Un espía occidental en el caso Assange y Snowden English Sample https://www.dropbox.com/s/qb1b2v8a60huh3g/The%20Analys%20ENG%20Sample%20Chapter%201.pdf?dl=0 Territory of representationFrench language More about the rights available for this book sophiesavary@sosavbooks.com

David JIMENEZ Original Title El lugar más feliz del mundo English Sample https://www.dropbox.com/s/t4uctb3o4o3ox6h/TheHappiestPlaceOnEarth%20ENG%20SAMPLE.pdf?dl=0 Territory of representationFrench language More about the rights available for this book sophiesavary@sosavbooks.com

David JIMENEZ Original Title Los hijos del Monzón Rights soldUSA (Autumn Hill Books) http://www.autumnhillbooks.org/children-of-the-monsoon.htmlAlemania (Campus Verlag); Italia (Marco Tropea); Taiwán (Ecus) English Sample https://medium.com/@DavidJimenezTW/the-invincible-child-boxer-for-a-living-a50d1334dee Territory of representationFrench language More about the rights available for this book...

Diego SÁNCHEZ AGUILAR CANDAYA, 2019, 352 p. LITERARY FICTION, Spanish A vibrant dystopia full of ethical dilemmas that invites the reader to rethink his most intimate convictions. Factbook is a lucid analysis, neither complacent nor nostalgic, of the last thirty years of Spanish society and of the generation who lived the 15M as a turning point that seemed to open a door to something that was not well known what it was. In a country living in...

Gustavo FAVERÓN PATRIAU, co-authored with Edmundo PAZ SOLDAN CANDAYA, 2008 504 p. LITERARY Essay, spanish Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) has gone, in just a few years, from being a marginal poet to occupying a central space in the imagination of the last generations of readers, who perceive in him a new way of conceiving the world of letters as a passionate adventure and of assuming the task of the writer with the rebelliousness of a perpetual...

Carlos FRONTERA CANDAYA, 2020, 144 p. LITERARY FICTION, spanish What makes a man fall apart when, apparently, nothing has happened? Two years after the break-up with La Rubia and in full post-operative convalescence, the protagonist of this novel suffers an unexpected crisis that cannot be explained, a collapse that buries him in the rubble of disaffection and in the devastating memory of childhood: a persistent echo that, mute to his ears,...

Juan TREJO TUSQUETS, 2014, 449 p. LITERARY FICTION, spanish “Perhaps it is the flow of the narrative, and not the meaning of the story, that shows us that we are alive.” A prodigious story about a secret project: the machine that anticipates the future. Túsquets Price 2014 When his mother dies, Óscar travels to Berlin to take charge of her belongings. He hasn’t had word from her in years because, in fact, she was living with...

Juan TREJO TUSQUETS, 2017, 256 p. LITERARY FICTION, spanish A love story in the 21st century, cold, sweet, unforgettable. A novel about the loss and recovery of oneself, an unforgettable tale about love in the 21st century. The narrator of this novel, a character suspiciously similar to the author, needs to dive, as if it were a patient archaeologist, in the most significant facts of his past, after a critical and decisive episode that...

Agustín MÁRQUEZ DÍAZ CANDAYA 2019, 160 p. LITERARY FICTION, spanish Chambéry’s first novel festival award (category spanish literature) France The life of a lost slum, narrated with humour, tenderness and fierce criticism. The run over of Chico B, an event all too common in the hostile environment where the novel takes place, is the trigger for a change in the two protagonists of this story: the narrator and the neighbourhood. This painful...

Gustavo FAVERÓN PATRIAU CANDAYA 2019, 672 p. LITERARY FICTION, spanish Short list of The Vargas Llosa Awards A key novel in 21st century Latin American literature Living Downstairs is an adventure book, a horror story, a police mystery, a story made up of a thousand stories and a chronicle of journeys through the territories of insanity and terror. It is also a quixotic humorous novel, populated by crazed artists, erudite spies, ghost poets and...

Gabriela PONCE CANDAYA, 2020, 160 p. LITERARY FICTION, spanish “A novel of resistance. From body and against the body. One novel that screams…” In an environment of wild nature and wild relations, the protagonist of Sanguínea enters and leaves caves and bodies, ghostly inhabited or uninhabited spaces, links crossed by loss, denial of the future and despair. Sanguínea is the record of her flow of consciousness and of an...

Mónica OJEDA CANDAYA, 2018, 208 p. LITERARY FICTION, spanish Finalist for the 2022 US National Book Award for Translated LiteratureLonglisted for the 2023 US PEN Translation Prize Was Nefando a horror game for freaks, an immoral staging or a poetic exercise? Nefando, Journey to the Insides of a Room, was a little-known online video game that was soon removed from the net because of its controversial sensitive content. Players’...

Daniela ALCÍVAR BELLOLIO CANDAYA,  2019, 160p. LITERARY FICTION, spanish The devastating experience of surviving a child. First novel. Siberia is the writing of a duel that is lived in the body, in the mind and in the language. It is the mourning of a mother who loses her child and leaves the city that has been her home for fifteen years, but it is also the search for the word that expresses, at the same time, the pain of absence and the...

Juan TREJO TUSQUETS, 2019, 320 p. LITERARY FICTION, spanish A writer recounts his personal biography and confronts his own work and also that of his favorite authors when life poses the most difficult challenge. The narrator of this novel, a character suspiciously similar to the author, needs to dive, as if it were a patient archaeologist, in the most significant facts of his past, after a critical and decisive episode that will mark him...

Pablo MARTIN CARBAJAL Ediciones Idea, 2006 (1ère édition), M.A.R. editor, 2014, 148 p. The story of a woman who sought her way through the art and life of Frida Kahlo. You are Cobalt Blue, the exciting story of a woman who sought her way through the art of Frida Kahlo. Dori has just turned thirty, she lives for her husband, her son and her work, one day she meets a disturbing man who penetrates her intimacy and discovers Frida Kahlo....

Pablo MARTIN CARBAJAL M.A.R. editor,   2016, 420 p. LITERARY FICTION, spanish TRAILER Spain, 2012, the hardest year of the current economic crisis. Álvaro Camino, a young Canary Islands businessman, is convinced by his father to make a trip to Dakar to look for new economic opportunities for the family business. But what does he know about Africa, which is so close? On the first day of his arrival, he met an attractive woman at...

Andreu MARTIN RBA, LA MAGRANA, 2013,  304 p. BLACK NOVEL, catalan, spanish Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants V Crims de Tinta Award in 2012 “Soong, Dona, Home i Nen, Señora, Caballero y Niño, Lady, Gentleman and Child Fashions, Wholesale Only”. This is how it appears on the business poster of some Chinese businessmen that camouflages the secret bank that is robbed before the macabre...

Andreu MARTIN RBA, LA MAGRANA, 2016,  448 p. BLACK NOVEL, catalan, spanish Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants The murder of two partners in a financial consulting firm triggers a major police operation involving Germán Rojo, a powerful man who believes he is untouchable and far above the other mortals, those annoying cockroaches he can crush whenever he wants. However, it has a weakness. Melba, a young...

Andreu MARTIN BROMERA, 2014, 336 p. BLACK NOVEL, catalan CIENTO CUARENTA EDITORIAL, 2014, 384 p., spanish Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants The murder of two partners in a financial consulting firm triggers a major police operation involving Germán Rojo, a powerful man who believes he is untouchable and far above the other mortals, those annoying cockroaches he can crush whenever he wants. However, it has a...

Andreu MARTIN ALREVÉS editorial,  2019, 290 p. FICTION, Black Novel, Catalan, spanish Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants Vila-Real town Novel Award 2018 A few months after the Jihadist attack on Barcelona’s Ramblas, and with days to go before controversial regional elections, the lifeless body of National Police inspector Santiago Ortuño appears in the port, between concrete blocks and a raging dark...

Andreu MARTIN ALREVÉS editorial,  2018, 355 p. FICTION, Black Novel, Catalan, spanish Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants Up there, on Tibidabo Avenue, where the old Blue Tramway runs, among the modernist and imposing villas is “El harem”, an exclusive brothel, which was already very popular during the Franco era. The most luxurious in the city: golden doors, coloured stained glass windows,...

Andreu MARTIN ALREVÉS editorial,  2020, 256 p. FICTION, Black Novel, Catalan, spanish The art of intrigue, of shaping spectacular characters, the truculent language in the dialogues, all the qualities found in Andreu Martín’s novels, are particularly remarkable in this novel. Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants The Tibidabo Harem is back, the most luxurious Modernist brothel in Barcelona, with its oak...

Robert Juan-Cantavella ANAGRAMA  2014, 375 p. LITERARY FICTION, spanish A choral novel, of love and literature, which handles the registers with mastery. A fabulous reading pleasure. Sigurd Mutt returns to Barcelona. Nearly thirty years have passed. Back then he was a young cryptozoologist determined, alongside his colleagues Belaire and Sjögren to unravel the mysteries of Hidden Naturalism and trace, against the dictates of official...