Chiado tobacco stores

Chiado tobacco stores

Fernando CLEMOT PARALELO SUR, 2008, SHORT STORIES, spanish Distinguished and terrible characters, echoes of childhood, looks of yearning and of disgust at life run through ‘Estancos del Chiado’, a volume that brings together the best stories by the Barcelona author Fernando Clemot, all written before 2005. Disappointment and irony go hand in hand in all the stories here, in a less than idyllic vision of a time that, in a journey to...

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The Gulf of Poets

The Gulf of Poets

Fernando CLEMOT BARATARIA, 2009, LITERARY FICTION, spanish The protagonist and narrator, Leo Carver, is a perceptive figure who takes a tragic approach to life through an excess of alcohol, sex, and parties, even though he knows his struggle against the void is condemned to failure. Looking for something to give meaning to his life, he sets off on a journey in search of lost memories: the clues he needs to clear up the death of a young woman...

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The language of the Drowned

The language of the Drowned

Fernando CLEMOT MENOSCUARTO, 2016. SHORT STORIES, spanish. The most ambitious and rounded book of stories by Fernando Clemot, one of the best authors of the current Hispanic short story. Tragic memories, visceral reactions, equivocal geographies, absurd situations, lost battles and meager revenges, spectral visions, infidelities and blackmail, indiscreet rooms … In the sixteen stories that make up The Language of the Drowned the reader...

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Snow, Polar Bears and some Braver Men than the Others

Snow, Polar Bears and some Braver Men than the Others

Mònica BATET METEORA, 2015, 184 p. LITERARY FICTION, catalan Book eligible for TRANSLATION GRANTS from the RAMÓN LLULL INSTITUTE in Barcelona. A 10-year-old girl is left at home with her paternal grandfather when her parents have to flee, for political reasons, from an Arctic country that is currently experiencing a climatic phenomenon called the Great Snowfall. Paris is the destination of fugitives. Time passes and the little girl and then the...

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Nine Islands in the North

Nine Islands in the North

Mònica BATET   BROMERA, 2019, 224 p., FICTION, catalan Book eligible for TRANSLATION GRANTS from the RAMÓN LLULL INSTITUTE in Barcelona. Can I tell a story that doesn’t belong to me? What can I talk about and what can I keep quiet about? These are some of the questions raised by the six narrators of this story, which tells the story of a past that may also be the present. In any case, we are talking about certain islands that...

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A Traveller Woman in Central Asia. What’s left of the world

A Traveller Woman in Central Asia. What’s left of the world

Patricia ALMARCEGUI Universitat de Barcelona, 2016, 172 p. NON-FICTION, spanish. Very little is still known about Central Asia in the West; travel books written by a woman about these regions are rare. In 2007, Patricia Almarcegui travelled alone through Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan for two months. Tashkent, Samarkand, Bujara, Jiva, Fergana, Osh, Biskek, Karakol…, magical names that invite you to dream and fantasize. This trip was seen...

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The Body’s Memory

The Body’s Memory

Patricia ALMARCEGUI FÓRCOLA EDICIONES, 2017, 192  p. LITERARY FICTION, spanish A feminine novel, very personal, yet universal. The origin of this novel is a question by Patricia Almarcegui: what would have happened if, instead of continuing her studies in Zaragoza, she had gone to Russia and become the first Spanish dancer to enter the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, the most important ballet in the world? This experience, she...

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New books soon

New books soon

New books are updated regularly and shown specifically here : list of Manuscripts list of Books to be published soon Visit this page often to be kept informed, or request by email to receive new entries at sophiesavary@sosavbooks.com

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Candaya’s books

Candaya’s books

All books from Candaya’s catalogue CANDAYA editorial,  spanish Famous for publishing contemporary Latin American Literature. But as well fond of Peninsular Literature… Catalogue CANDAYA 2023 Posted: 13 October 2022 Catálogo Candaya. 2023Télécharger CatálogoCandaya.-2023 Catalogue CANDAYA 2023 Posted: 13 October 2022 Territory of representationWorldwide Saturn StationHunting LawsThe OrganMinusculeThe Lives I Did Not LiveA Simple...

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