Spanish | Frank Wynne

Village of the Lost Girls by Agustín Martínez

August 11, 2018 by adminfw

A breath-taking missing persons thriller set under the menacing peaks of the Pyrenees Five years after their disappearance, the village of Monteperdido still mourns the loss of Ana and Lucia, two eleven-year-old friends who left school one afternoon and were never seen again. Now, Ana reappears unexpectedly inside a crashed car, wounded but alive. The case reopens and a race against time begins to discover who was behind the girls’ kidnapping. Most importantly, where is Lucia and is she still […]

Categories: Spanish, Thriller

Among the Lost by Emiliano Monge

August 11, 2018 by adminfw

Here is Mexico, its landscape, its violence, in a high voltage prose that has its roots in the best literature of its country: Rulfo, Fuentes, Sada. And for such a young writer Monge’s language and ideas are strikingly well wrought and mature. RAFAEL CHIRBES In the desolate wastelands between the sierra and the jungle, under an all-seeing, unforgiving sun, a single day unfolds as relentlessly as those that have gone before. People are trafficked and brutalised, illegal migrants are cheated […]

Categories: Latin America, Spanish

The Impostor by Javier Cercas

April 8, 2017 by adminfw

Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2018 Who is Enric Marco? An august and much-revered old man from Barcelona, a veteran of the Spanish civil war, a fervent fighter against fascism, an impassioned campaigner for justice and freedom, a survivor of Flossenbürg, the Nazi concentration camp whose tireless work promoting historical memory in schools, at conferences, in countless interviews, in a speech to parliament that moved members of the Spanish congress to tears, earned him many honours and saw […]

Categories: Spanish

The Blue Palace of the Belgian Engineers by Fulgencio Argüelles

August 14, 2016 by adminfw

“A magnificent and powerful novel.” —Ernesto Ayala-Dip, El País In September 1927, Nalo starts working as a trainee for the gardener at the blue palace of the Belgian engineers. A time of revolutions and war, his years at the palace will bring his awakening to life. With a careful and crafted prose, Fulgencio Argüelles displays a varied array of characters who share friendship, love, and hardship.

Categories: Spanish

In the Beginning was the Sea” by Tomás González

March 25, 2015 by adminfw

Shortlisted for the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction prize J. and Elena abandon their life in the bohemian, intellectual circles of Medellin and move to the sea, to a desolate, barren stretch of coastline somewhere in Antioquía, where they sink every peso they possess into buying a finca – a vast estate of several hundred hectares.. Neither has any experience of farming, of rural life, or of the customs and traditions of the local people; instead they are driven by a […]

Categories: Awards & Nominations, Colombia, Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Latin America, Spanish • Tags: Colombia, Pushkin Press, Tomas Gonzalez

Africa39

July 3, 2014 by adminfw

In 2014, UNESCO’s World Book Capital is Port Harcourt, Nigeria—the first city in Africa to receive the designation by public bid. Port Harcourt Book Festival are joining forces with the internationally renowned Hay Festival, which will bring to Port Harcourt its 39 Project, following on the success of Bogotá 39 in 2007 and Beirut 39 in 2010. This year, the 39 project identifies the thirty-nine most promising young writers under the age of forty in sub-Saharan Africa and the diaspora. […]

Categories: Francophone Literature, Spanish • Tags: Africa39, Congo, Equitorial Guinea, Kinshasa

“The Siege” by Arturo Perez-Reverte

June 30, 2014 by adminfw

Synopsis Cadiz, 1811. Spain is battling for independence while America is doing the same. But in the streets of the most liberal city in Europe other battles are taking place. A serial killer is on the loose, flaying young women to death. Each of these murders takes place near the site where a French bomb has just fallen. It is the job of policeman Rogelio Tizon to find the murderer and avoid public scandal in a city already posied on […]

Categories: Awards & Nominations, Crime Fiction, CWA International Dagger, Spanish, Thriller • Tags: Cadiz, Crime Fiction, CWA International Dagger, Historical Fiction, Perez-Reverte

Liveforever (¡Qué viva la música!) by Andrés Caicedo

January 2, 2014 by adminfw

Liveforever (¡Qué viva la míusica!), a hypnotic Colombian novel is a wild celebration of youth, hedonism and the transforming power of music María del Carmen Huerta lives a respectable bourgeois life in Colombia. One day she misses class, and discovers she cannot return to her ordinary existence but must pursue her passion for dancing across the city. We follow her from rumbas in car parks to concerts in shantytowns as she gives in to every desire – however dark. Published in […]

Categories: Colombia, Latin America, Spanish • Tags: Caicedo, Colombia, ¡Qué Viva La Música!

Ripper by Isabel Allende

September 24, 2013 by adminfw

Isabel Allende—the New York Times bestselling author whose books, including Maya’s Notebook, Island Beneath the Sea, and Zorro, have sold more than 57 million copies around the world—demonstrates her remarkable literary versatility with Ripper, an atmospheric, fast-paced mystery involving a brilliant teenage sleuth who must unmask a serial killer in San Francisco. The Jackson women, Indiana and Amanda, have always had each other. Yet, while their bond is strong, mother and daughter are as different as night and day. Indiana, […]

Categories: Spanish, Thriller • Tags: Harper Collins, Isabel Allende, Thriller

The Parchment Notebooks – Writings by Pablo Picasso

February 11, 2013 by adminfw

I have been working for several months now on translations of selected writings by Picasso (Curated and edited by the esteemed Picasso scholars Marilyn Cully & Michael Raeburn). The writings range from his childhood ‘newspaper’ La Coruña, to letters spanning half a century to statements both artistic and political, conversations with Brassäi, Jaime Sabartés and Daniel Kahnweiler. It also includes a selection of Picasso’s poetry, much of it written int he mid-1930s when he ‘gave up’ painting, sculpture and ceramics. The […]

Categories: French, Spanish • Tags: Non-Fiction, Parchment Notebooks, Penguin Books, Picasso, Poetry

“Pig’s Foot” by Carlos Acosta

January 22, 2013 by adminfw

One day Oscar Kortico wakes to find himself utterly alone in the world. As the sole descendant of his family line he is not sure what to do or where he should go, but in the midst of this uncertainty, he holds fast to what his grandfather always told him: ‘No man knows who he is until he knows his past, the history of his country.’ As he sets out to find the lost village of Pata de Puerco and […]

Categories: Latin America, Spanish • Tags: Bloomsbury, Books of the Year, Carlos Acosta, Cuba, Pig's Foot, Spanish, Translation, Waterstones

“The Blue Hour” by Alonso Cueto

June 2, 2012 by adminfw

“The Blue Hour” won the 2013 Premio Valle Inclán for translation from the Spanish Can a son be forgiven for the sins of his father? Adrian Ormache is a prosperous lawyer living in Lima. He has the perfect life: a great career, beautiful wife, two doting and intelligent daughters. But when his mother dies a series of events devastate his entire view of the past, his parents, and his country.Adrian’s mother leaves a letter indicating that she was being blackmailed. […]

Categories: Awards & Nominations, Latin America, Premio Valle Inclán, Spanish • Tags: Alonso Cueto, Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, Peru, Premio Valle Inclan, Shining Path

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