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Europe, 1945: Hitler is dead; the Third Reich is an open wound. Amid the chaos, a man like no other makes his way south through France and into Spain. No one will stand in his way and live. Only idealistic young Wilson Tripp, American vice consul in the city of Seville, stands to discover the man's true identity and the stunning threat he poses—that is, if Wilson Tripp can survive.
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Transit Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Every once in a while a novel does not record reality but creates a whole new reality, one that casts a light on our darkest feelings. Kafka did that. Bruno Schulz did that. Now the Spanish writer Andrés Barba has done it with the terrifying Such Small Hands."Edmund WhiteLife changes at the orphanage the day seven-year-old Marina shows up. She is different from the other girls: at once an outcast and object of fascination. As Marina struggles to...
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Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Primera edición.
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Español
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"Madrid, 18th century, Julia is one of the many courtesans who live in the Royal Palace. Her life has been planned and groomed to allow zero deviations: she has been taught how to sit, what to say, how to dress, and whom to love"--
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Alec Milius series volume 2
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English
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Attempting to rebuild his life in Madrid, former spy Alec Milius struggles to live below the radar as an investment banker, until the disappearance of a prominent politician places him in the middle of an international conspiracy.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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"October 1936. Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station, the final stop on his journey from war-torn Madrid, where he has left behind his wife and children, abandoning them to uncertainty. Crossing the fragile borders of Europe, he reflects on months of fratricidal conflict in his embattled country, his own transformation from a bricklayer's son to a respected bourgeois husband and professional, and the all-consuming love affair with...
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English
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Published in 1926 to explosive acclaim, The Sun Also Rises stands as perhaps the most impressive first novel ever written by an American writer. A roman ? clef out a group of American and English expatriates on an excursion from Paris's Left Bank to Pamplona for the July fiesta and its climactic bull fight, a journey from the center of a civilization spiritually bankrupted by the First World War to a vital, God-haunted world in which faith and honor...
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English
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"Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections? Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam's "research" becomes a meditation...
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Español
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En la turbulenta Barcelona de los años 20, un joven escritor obsesionado con un amor imposible recibe la oferta de un misterioso editor para escribir un libro como no ha existido nunca, a cambio de una fortuna y, tal vez, mucho más.
Con un estilo deslumbrante e impecable el autor de La Sombra del Viento, nos transporta de nuevo a la Barcelona del Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados para ofrecernos una gran aventura...
Con un estilo deslumbrante e impecable el autor de La Sombra del Viento, nos transporta de nuevo a la Barcelona del Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados para ofrecernos una gran aventura...
12) The alchemist
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An Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles along the way. But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods...
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Tusquets Editores
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Primera edición.
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Español
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Años después de lo ocurrido en Independencia, Melchor Marín ya no es policía: trabaja como bibliotecario y vive con su hija Cosette, convertida en una adolescente. Un día, Cosette descubre que su padre le ha ocultado cómo murió su madre, y este hecho la confunde y la subleva. Poco después parte de vacaciones a Mallorca, pero no regresa; tampoco contesta los mensajes ni las llamadas de Melchor, quien, convencido de que algo malo ha ocurrido,...
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Cemetery of forgotten books volume 1
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English
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"Anyone who enjoys novels that are scary, erotic, touching, tragic and thrilling should rush right out to the nearest bookstore and pick up The Shadow of the Wind. Really, you should." —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
“Wondrous...masterful...The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero.” —Entertainment...
“Wondrous...masterful...The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero.” —Entertainment...
15) Matador
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English
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The morning of Pacote's last fight, the city of Sevilla waits, heavy with anticipation. But Pacote finds he is afraid and fears disgrace in the ring. Time, once his friend, now presses him on to the moment when the gate opens and the first bull enters the ring.
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
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""Either you kill the bull, or the bull kills you." Chief Inspector Max Cam̀ara thinks in proverbs, and he hates one thing above all: bullfighting. One hot afternoon in Valencia, however, he has to stand in for his boss, judging a festival corrida starring Spain's most famous young matador. That night, he is back in the bullring, and what he finds on the blood-stained sand shocks the city of Valencia to its core. Cam̀ara is roped into investigating...
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Cemetery of forgotten books volume 3
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English
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In 1957 Barcelona, Daniel Semper and his close friend Fermin Romero de Torres find their lives violently disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious stranger who threatens to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades in the city's dark past.
18) Regreso a París
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Series
Publisher
Duomo Ediciones
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
19) La colmena
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Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo USA
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
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The novel depicts the hardship borne by the lower-middle class following the Spanish Civil War.
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
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English
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"A dream of a debut, by turns troubling and glorious, angry and wise." -Junot Diaz
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, the debut of Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Laila Lalami, evokes the grit and enduring grace that is modern Morocco. The book begins as four Moroccans illegally cross the Strait of Gibraltar in an inflatable boat headed for Spain.What has driven them to risk their lives? And will the rewards prove to be worth...
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