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Pages: 280

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Pardo, José Luis
Pages: 296

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Concheiro, Luciano
Pages: 176

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Forns, Albert
Pages: 328

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Ballbona, Anna
Pages: 208

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Díaz-Mas, Paloma
Pages: 168

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Montes, Javier
Pages: 312

We’re used to feeling expelled from Paradise, but what happens when we find ourselves expelled in Paradise? When we are offered beauty and the illusion of happiness, whi...

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Chirbes, Rafael
Pages: 160

The narrator of this story, a young painter from Madrid, remembers with the urgency of a confession—perhaps to himself and during which, at times, he almost justifies hi...

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Rivero, Pablo
Pages: 136

A portrait of the northern Spanish town of Gijón with echoes of Vian, Goodis and Welsh as the city prepares to celebrate Christmas. An alcoholic hotel pianist who still...

Bad Handwriting
Mesa, Sara
Pages: 200

The author of this book holds her pencil wrong. She has always held it wrong since her days at school when her teachers tried to help her, telling her that «you have to...

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Hearts in Darkness
Pérez Azaústre, Joaquín
Pages: 280

Águeda takes a walk every afternoon from her town´s boulevard to the promenade by the sea. On the outside she still looks like the confident and self-sufficient w...

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Sanz, Marta
Pages: 240

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