The Unwelcome Guest
Cremades, Luis
Molina Foix, Vicente
Pages: 416
This book begins with the death of a father, announced at the bedside of a son, and ends three decades later, on the same day of the year and in the same house, where the inte...
The Body Where I Was Born
Nettel, Guadalupe
Pages: 200
Inspired by the author’s own childhood, El cuerpo en que nací is the story of a girl born with a birth defect in her eye. Her life, during the 1970s, is marked by...
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My Documents
Zambra, Alejandro
Pages: 208
In this book of short stories, Alejandro Zambra traces the mundane existence of men who fall back on an outdated idea of masculinity, describing the transition of peripatetic...
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Antibody
Ordovás, Julio José
Pages: 136
The protagonist of this story arrives one day, traversing the rooftops of his village, to an island that witnesses a shipwreck take place beneath the sun. The castaway knows t...
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The Pornographer Prudishness
Pauls, Alan
Pages: 160
Sheltered in an apartment, a pornographer replies to letters from women and men, guiding them through a labyrinth of vertigo and lust. This all-consuming task leaves him emoti...
The Trail of the Fire that Recedes
Goytisolo, Luis
Pages: 208
The first chapters of this book , which won the National Critics Prize, are about «the crisis facing the protagonist», who the author names with the letter A. He i...
A Simple Story
Guerriero, Leila
Pages: 148
In January 2011, the Argentinean journalist Leila Guerriero travelled to a town with six thousand inhabitants, in the centre of her country. Her intention was to tell the stor...
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When cold arrives at the heart
Gutiérrez Aragón, Manuel
Pages: 136
This is a story that mixes goddesses, cows and first loves. A marvelous and realistic story about summer love in a northern city and about the discovery of sex. Because his fa...
You are the Best, Cienfuegos
Amat, Kiko
Pages: 288
On the Shore
Chirbes, Rafael
Pages: 440
CRITICS PRIZE 2013 NATIONAL LITERATURE PRIZE 2013 The story opens with the discovery of a body in the Olba marshes. Esteban, the protagonist, is forced to close the carp...
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The History of Money
Pauls, Alan
Pages: 216
Argentina, the 70s. The syndicates have been taken over by the radicalized left wing, the industrial belt of Buenos Aires is now referred to as the red belt, and a t...
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On the Shore
Chirbes, Rafael
Pages: 440
CRITICS PRIZE 2013 NATIONAL LITERATURE PRIZE 2013 The story opens with the discovery of a body in the Olba marshes. Esteban, the protagonist, is forced to close the carp...