Gustavo FAVERÓN PATRIAU CANDAYA 2024, 720 p. LITERARY FICTION, spanish ‘At the end of the reading one is left uncontrolled and hallucinating’ Mario Vargas Llosa. Gustavo Faverón Patriau draws on the need to tell stories, the philosophy of defeat, the dark smile of realism, the horror story, the delirium of the fantastic and the humour of the marvellous to seek unity, however murky and shaky, in the rubble of today’s world. Written after...

Matías Néspolo CANDAYA,  2024, 192 p. LITERARY UPMARKET, Spanish, Argentine ‘The true novel is always an art of human knowledge. And Néspolo’s novel certainly is’, J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, Babelia, El País ‘A novel without frills by an author who, slowly but surely, is building a work charged with depth’, Alvaro Colomer, La Vanguardia Behind the mask of a crime plot, this novel tells the story of a few days in...

Un roman-balade poétique, intime et socio-écologique dans la ville mythique. Les yeux du narrateur sont du nord, son cœur du sud. Par l’auteur du très remarqué Vies déposées (Seuil, 2018) relatant le quotidien de trois personnages vivant dans la rue dans le nord de Paris.Une belle écriture, imagée et finement humoristique. Tom-Louis TEBOUL Étienne, consultant en risque climatique et jeune parent, se retrouve bloqué à Marseille, une...

Gilles DEL PAPPAS FICTION / Adultes, Jeunes adultes, Français Un roman plein de générosité, avec des personnages émouvants et truculents, un roman où la cuisine est omniprésente et met l’eau à la bouche. La vie d’un quartier populaire de Marseille, le Panier, sa solidarité, la beauté du partage, la vie belle et cruelle des personnes aux vies décalées (réfugiés, marginaux). Une famille de réfugiés est chassée de son appartement au...

Anaëlle Théry Terre vivante, April 2024, 160 p. 21×29,7 cm. Practical Ecology, French The only book to date written on Syntropic Agriculture for temperate environments, emerging concept all over the world.After Permaculture, the new revolution in your garden!This book, based on the field experiments of Anaëlle Théry, a pioneer of syntropy in France, provides methods adapted to temperate latitudes, for vegetable gardening (from 50 m²),...

Xavier ALIAGA CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2024, 280 p. FICTION, Crime Novel, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grantsAfter The Neons of Sodom and Two square meters of young blood (crims.cat 12), Xavier Aliaga returns with a new installment of his peculiar policeman of Guinean origin. With the same load of irony and social criticism, but with a much more poignant and violent story, in what could be considered the...

The stories that make up Theory of Touch are snapshots of the many senselessnesses of the contemporary world. Trapped characters, confused between redemption and sinking, are entangled between surrogacy, pornography, prostitution, madness, death, social networks, bereavement and illness, social networks, grief and illness. A delicate and at the same time savage book, of dark light and painful humour and mournful humour.A devastating look at...

Gilles DEL PAPPAS Editions d’Avallon (réédition),  2024, (Librio, 2000; CLC édition, 2004), 94 p. FICTION, Crime Novel, French One of the Best Sellers by Gilles del Pappas, Marseilles’ Crime and Adventure Novels Master. Gilles del Pappas. Massilia Dreams, New edition in French by Editions d’Avallon. Before a middle-aged woman claimed to have lost her jewels in Loule’s taxi, life was pretty quiet for him in...

Mario Vargas Llosa : Talking about The weight of Living on Earth (“I think David Toscana has written one of the best novels in Spanish language”. José Manuel Fajardo: “David Toscana is one of the major voices of the current Latin American narrative”, EL Cultural, El Español, 15 enero 2023 “David Toscana is one of the most innovative contemporary Mexican storytellers.” Eduardo Espina, El Observador. A...

Andreu MARTIN CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2024, 332 p. FICTION, Black Novel, Catalan, Spanish (Alrevés) Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grantsThe new novel from Barcelona’s master of the Crime Novel. Tricky and revealing of the problems of Barcelona and Catalan society. Marc Olván is a lawyer in a bad situation, in love and an alcoholic, who is not exactly going through a great time. Lidia Pedralba is a mother...

Silvestre VILAPLANA CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2020, 250 p. FICTION, Thriller Novel, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grantsThe novel that begins the trilogy featuring Inspector Araceli Lavila In a flush on the outskirts of Valencia appears the body of an unidentified young woman with the phalanges of her fingers cut off and obvious signs of rape. When Inspector Araceli Lavila begins the investigation, she...

Antoni ROCA CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2023, 214 p. FICTION, Crime Novel, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants X Agustí Vehí-Vila de Tiana Memorial Prize 2023 In 1912, Vienna was a seemingly quiet city, the center of a continental empire that has survived the uprisings of the nineteenth century. It has more than two million inhabitants and the Universal Exposition has given it an unquestionable prestige,...

Silvestre VILAPLANA CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2023, 290 p. FICTION, Crime Novel, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grantsAfter Women without Name and Suburbs of Paradise, Silvestre Vilaplana completes with Angels of Death the trilogy of detective Araceli Lavila, three crime novels with a strong social denunciation that have corruption and abuses of power as a background. Death seems to have taken over the...

Silvestre VILAPLANA CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2022, 268 p. FICTION, Crime’s novel, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grantsA novel denouncing the darkness of factual powers set against the backdrop of political crimes, the rise of fascism and abuses of power. After Women Without a Name, Inspector Araceli Laula returns. Removed from the body while battling health problems, her life is disturbed by the...

Jordi CERVERA CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2021, 380 p. FICTION, Thriller, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants A wood, a park and a courthouse. What can these three places have in common? Well, more than you think, especially if we also take a look at the protagonists who move there. Because it’s hard to imagine the things that might unite a media philosopher, a respected judge woman, a young woman...

Pere FIGUERAS CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2022, 180 p. FICTION, Crime’s Novel, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grantsA dark book full of humour IX ex-aequo Memorial Agustí Vehí-Vila Award in Tiana Black Novel Festival 2022 The protagonist of this story is Avel·lí Baldoví, a psychopath convinced that the world works against him and who does not hesitate to eliminate anyone who offends his dignity. He...

Patricia ALMARCEGUI CANDAYA, 2023. Fiction, Spanish A story of gardens, migration, exodus and women in search of a place of their own. In Spain and Iran. The lives I did not live is a book that oscillates between the intimate and the public in a conversational, everyday, fragmentary and delicate language. Book eligible for translation grants from the Balearic Islands Anna and Pari are two women who meet in Menorca, around an abandoned and...

Rabia AHMED FEROZSONS,  2022, 200 p. FICTION, Novel, English (Pakistan) A story of the ongoing struggle between power and poverty in Pakistan’s town. It’s an investigative novel because the author is a journalist, at times a social novel, but also an intimate novel, and always in a simple and elegant writing. Pakistan, with its social and urban problems, has so much to tell us. “Set within the framework of a family coming to...

Mario Vargas Llosa : “Acabo de leer esta novela del escritor mexicano David Toscana que ha ganado el Premio Bienal de Novela que lleva mi nombre, celebrado en Guadalajara, y creo que es uno de los textos más originales publicados en los últimos años”. “Lo que está en juego en este texto notable es el humor. Un humor extraño e incandescente”. “Uno de los aspectos originales de este libro es ese juego mediante el...

Andreu MARTIN CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2023, 480 p. FICTION, Black Novel, Catalan, Spanish (Alrevés) Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants World War I. While the main European cities are bleeding into conflict, Barcelona is one of the great pearls of the Mediterranean. Despite its status as a neutral territory, no one ignores the fact that on the coast there are ports where they can illegally stock up on fuel...

Diego SÁNCHEZ AGUILAR CANDAYA, 2023, 544 p. LITERARY FICTION, Spanish In Those who listen, Diego Sánchez Aguilar explores all the forms of Anxiety and Fear that define our contemporary society. “A thoughtful novel that avoids sermons: the best way to be a political novel” José María Pozuelo Yvancos . A novel that reminds us Thomas Pinchon, David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo, and the Bulgarian Guéorgui Gospodínov. And something to do...

Gerard GUIX Winner of the most important children’s literature prize in Catalonia: Joaquim Ruyra 2022 Illustrations by Cristina Bueno ELASTIC BOOKS ( Grup Enciclopèdia ), 2023, 240 p. Teen Novel, Catalan They say that adolescence is the age of discoveries and anguish. Max knows this well. At the age of fourteen he has just seen how his life takes an unexpected turn: his father has been commissioned to renovate a lighthouse on a remote...

Armella Leung (Art-mella) POURPENSER, 2015, 2018, 19 x 29,5 cm. Self Help, Youth, Comics, French Till 14 years old to any age of life ALMOST 50 000 COPIES SOLD IN TOTAL FOR THE SERIES Tome #1 30 000 copies sold in France Art-mella is a young woman who likes to look for answers to the questions she asks herself. Curious and quick-witted, she observes, goes out to meet people and tries things out. In these pages, Art-mella shares some of the...

Mariló ÀLVAREZ CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2022, 180 p. FICTION, Crime’s Novel, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants X Memorial Agustí Vehí-Vila Award in Tiana Black Novel Festival 2022 Queralt, a psychologist by training, works at the Suicide Assistance Center (C.A.S.) number twelve, an agency attached to the Social Security that regulates suicide requests from her patients. Their task is to assess...

A novel about survival and the ruins of our time.In the end, although everything went wrong, everyone thought they were heroes. David Toscana reinvents a wounded city where reality is overcome with imagination, nostalgia, rebellion and a good dose of alcohol. “David Toscana is one of the most innovative contemporary Mexican storytellers.” Eduardo Espina, El Observador.José Manuel Fajardo: “David Toscana is one of the major...

Eight chronicles on the idea of the great life journey and the different typologies of the postmodern traveller.As Stendhal or Vila-Matas did. A urban Wanderer, a walking thinker. Aitor ROMERO ORTEGA CANDAYA,  2023, 160 p. NON FICTION, Travel chronicle, Spanish The Art of Writing Standing up is a travel book that, through eight chronicles with a clear guiding thread, traces a personal history of the travelling illness, from the Rome of the...

Gilles DEL PAPPAS FICTION / Jeunesse à partir de 13 ans, français Un roman tendre et au langage direct, où une jeune adolescente et un vieil homme fantôme urbain se rencontrent. Des personnages complexes, sûrement pas unichromes qui se heurtent et se connaissent à Marseille, troisième personnage du roman. C’est dans le décor antique de Marseille que se passe cette histoire. Sous le signe du Mistral, le Maitre des vents, gansaillé par sa force,...

Lluís LLORT CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2016, 296 p. FICTION, Crime’s Novel, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants Monday morning. The week begins for Mossos d’Esquadra sergeant Jaume Fuentes and his colleague, Santi Planes, with the case of the corpse of a young man snuggled up in a small office in the center of Barcelona. Over the next seven days, what initially seemed like a routine case...

The story of a migrant mother and daughter, both of them together, working as prostitutes in Barcelona. And the life of Laureano Debat sharing a flat with them. Laureano DEBAT CANDAYA,  2022, 296 p. NOVEL, spanish Shortly after arriving in Barcelona, Laureano Debat went to visit a flat in the Eixample district with the intention of renting a room. The women who showed him around, a mother and daughter, seemed very nice and the room was...

Mia is 20 years old. She takes care of almost everything in her family now, her little brother, her absent mother, her mentally disturbed father.A novel about the essence of family relationships and the almost always confusing web that shapes them. Guilt is one of the primary themes of the novel and family secret. There is also a special focus on violence in relationships, abuse, intimate partner violence, especially between young people. What...

En négociation avec une maison d’édition Gilles DEL PAPPAS FICTION /Polar, français Ainsi Gilles del Pappas introduit-il son roman : “En plein confinement, j’ai entendu une journaliste prouver que les agressions contre les femmes, au foyer conjugal, avaient été augmentées de 35%. J’en fus horrifié. Comment cela était-il possible. Que mes collègues, les hommes pouvaient être capable de telles ignominies me surprenait. Pourquoi ?...

With The Natural State of Things, originally published in 2016 by Caballo de Troya, Alejandro Morellón became the first Spaniard to win the prestigious Gabriel García Márquez International Short Story Prize (the so-called Oscar of short stories), making him one of the most relevant voices of the new Spanish narrative, as evidenced by his inclusion in the first selection of 10 out of 30, the anthology of the AECID and Acción Cultural for the...

Gerard GUIX Les FORGES de VULCAIN, Tout ce que tu devrais savoir avant de m’aimer, 2022, 384 p. FICTION, French (trad. Carole Fillière)COLUMNA, Tot el que hauries de saber abans d’estimar-me, 2011, 250 p. FICTION, Catalan Novel eligible for translation grants for Catalan novels from the Institut Ramón Llull Pin i Soler de Novel.la awards 2001 A novel, with a very personal poetic style that opens up to the fantastic, therefore has a...

Eduardo RUIZ SOSA CANDAYA,  2022, 464 p. LITERARY FICTION, spanish (Mexico) A journey through the scenes of the disappeared people in contemporary Mexico. “Estado Crítico awards in 2022, in its Narrative section, the work by Eduardo Ruiz Sosa El libro de nuestras ausencias (Candaya, 2022). For its daring formula for telling the story of the violence of disappearances in Mexico. For its atrocious lyricism. For maintaining the pain in...

Documentary poetry that reflects on memory, history and the limits of language.In the line of books like Anne Carson’s The Beauty of the Husband, Wallace Stevens’ Notes for a Supreme Fiction, William Carlos Williams’ Patterson, or Raúl Zurita’s Zurita, Hospital del aire adds to the tradition of poetry books that transcend the conventional barriers of genres and propose to re-signify registers that seem irreconcilable. An...

Pablo MARTIN CARBAJAL Mar editor, 2022, 444 p. Fiction, Novel, spanish A journey to the west of the Maghreb, in Mauritania and Morocco, with two protagonists we already met in Maybe Dakar, Álvaro and his sister Carol. A socio-historical and adventure novel. Álvaro and Cárol are two brothers who have a difficult relationship with each other, both working in the family business located in the Canary Islands. For business reasons they have to...

Isabel-Cristina ARENAS SEPULVEDA CANDAYA,  2022, 240 p. LITERARY FICTION, spanish (Colombia) A first novel that explores the mysteries of family, death and the debts of the past. Isabel is a living memory and, although everything that surrounds her causes deep sadness in those who knew her, loving her seems to be obligatory. Fearful of the possibility of repeating a life, the narrator, who is named after her grandmother, needs at the same...

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...

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...

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...

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...