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...

Juan TREJO BELACQVA, 2008, 299 p. LITERARY FICTION, spanish “[…] this narrative goes far beyond the political statement and the redistribution of the cards of power: in reality, it turns them around and asks us to judge what is really going on in everyone’s head. “Albert Bensoussan, En attendant Nadeau (french) The End of the Cold War unfolds the parallel stories of three characters, Dona (flight attendant), Tomás (young...

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...

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...

Robert Juan-Cantavella GALAXIA GUTENBERG   2018, 340 p. LITERARY FICTION, spanish A magnificent novel about subversion, the subversive, the use of the enemy’s language to turn it against itself. The enemy is the European Union, the institutions of this Union, which the European people, like myriads of worms, nibble on with humour and rebellion. A grammar of revolt, which the novel masterfully adopts. Qwerty, a Brussels official,...

Rafael Guerrero CÍRCULO ROJO, 2015, 238 p. DETECTIVE NOVEL, spanish “Rafael Guerrero” serie, #3 Prefaced by Juan Madrid Sicily, Madrid and Syria at war are the places where Rafael Guerrero’s new investigations are taking place in 2014. Places that will lead the author and character to an ultimatum. Prostitutes, mobsters, spies and private detectives form the crowd of characters involved in the same story. A story that is rooted in...

Rafael Guerrero Republished by EOLAS, 2020, 260p. DETECTIVE NOVEL, spanish CÍRCULO ROJO, 2018. “Rafael Guerrero” serie, #4 A woman threatened with death by her ex-husband is forced to flee without a trace by adopting a new identity. She loses everything to try to save herself.A young man in love travels to India to meet his future in-law family and ends up disappearing, kidnapped, perhaps dead, perhaps reincarnated. Detective Guerrero will try...

Óscar GUAL ARISTAS MARTINEZ, 2015, 288 p. LITERARY FICTION, spanish Quadrilogy “Sierpe” #3 Short listed for the 2014 Herralde Prize “Gual has assumed the conventions of the novelistic format in order to subject them to a systematic reprogramming in the service of a new realism: an unusual look at a reality in expansive mutation” Juan Francisco Ferré “There was a time when Spanish literature admitted in its pavilions brutality,...

Óscar GUAL ARISTAS MARTINEZ, 2018, 252 p. LITERARY FICTION, spanish Quadrilogy “Sierpe” #4 A journalist and writer whose name is unknown, follows in the footsteps of a certain Drákos Vasiliás who, according to rumours, is able to “see” the global flow of speculative investments, give it meaning and predict its behaviour. A strange being with Savant syndrome who nevertheless paid a high price for turning into this kind of human...

Patricia ALMARCEGUI FÓRCOLA EDICIONES, 2018, 144 p. Non-Fiction, spanish. Second edition. New edition of the book Escuchar Irán (Newcastle, 2016) enhanced with articles and photographs. “Desde mi primer viaje, he vuelto en varias ocasiones y he residido en Shiraz. En cada visita, los iraníes me han mostrado un país diferente. El cambio entre 2005 y 2017 es enorme, al igual que ha sucedido en tantos lugares. Irán es una de las grandes...

Patricia ALMARCEGUI FÓRCOLA EDICIONES, 2019, 312  p. Non-fiction, essay, spanish An essay, in short, erudite and entertaining, which reformulates the traveller’s imagination from the perspective of the genre. Book eligible for translation grants from the Balearic Islands Since Antiquity, travel has been one of the preferred ways of representing human beings. Getting to know new places and new people is a form of culture and describes...

Álex CHICO CANDAYA, 2017, 256 p. ESSAY/FICTION, spanish. The last hours of Walter Benjamin’s life in Portbou The end of an european cross-border village Recommended by Enrique Vila-Matas (blog enriquevilamatas.com, enero 2018) In September 1940, a group of refugees left France through a clandestine passage in the Pyrenees. They hoped to cross Spain and follow their route to America, fleeing the barbarism that had taken over Europe. Their...

Álex CHICO CANDAYA, 2019, 256 p. NARRATIVE NON-FICTION, 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 sharp reflection on language, memory and emigration During the 1960s, many Spanish workers left their place of origin and sought employment in Europe. Some time later, with the oil crisis and the rise of...

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...

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...

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...

Fernando CLEMOT SALTO DE PÁGINA, 2015, 192 p. LITERARY FICTION, spanish “It succeeds, indeed, in transferring to the reader the oppressive atmosphere of the ship and subjecting us to a reading navigation that fills us with anxiety”. S. Birado, Librújula “In Clemot’s own words “no storyteller is reliable”, but ‘Polaris’ will take us to the height of insecurity”. M. Suero, La cueva del...

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...

Patricia ALMARCEGUI Ediciones B, 2011, 208 p. FICTION, spanish. Historical novel. A fiction that is both entertaining and theoretical. Both the aesthetic debates and the beautiful friendship imagined between Ingres and Lady Montagu in Paris delight the reader. In The Painter and the Traveller’s Woman, Ingres, tormented and lacking inspiration, fled Paris and isolated himself in the countryside. He regained his confidence and the desire to...

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...

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

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 MinusculeA Simple FableTheory of TouchThe Lives I Did Not LiveThose who...