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  PLANETA AWARD 2020 A moving historical thriller that spans a century teeming  with revenge, incest and battles. "She acts like a lion. Charges like an eagle. Executes like a scorpion."   1137. The Duke of Aquitaine --France's most coveted region--is found dead in Compostela. His body turns blue and signs of the "blood eagle", an ancient Norman torture. His daughter, Eleanor, decides to take revenge and to do so marries the son... - Read more

The great novel about the Madrid of 1953, when the postwar period depicted a Madrid in black and white. In Mrs. Amelia’a small hotel life throbs underneath a subjugated Spain. On the street, the expectation of the echos from the military boots ready to celebrate the Francoist victory drowns the sounds of life; but inside, human contact becomes, inevitably, a hotbed of desires and hope. Meanwhile, Ernesto Bacigalupe, a Spanish anarchist... - Read more

“Written in a musical format in four movements and a coda, the reader will travel throughout this text accompanied by musical terms, amidst harrowing situations and the most intimate feelings of its protagonists. “Concert for Leah” is the story of a young woman with a prodigious talent for the violin, whose goal is to become a soloist. In 1939 Leah, her parents and sister leave Hamburg go to Cuba in a ship full of Jews that,... - Read more

  Alfaguara Prize (Spain) 2004 & Premio Grinzane Cavour (Italy) 2005 Internationally acclaimed for the virtuosity and power of her fiction, Laura Restrepo has created in Delirium a passionate, lyrical, devastating tale of eros and insanity. Aguilar, an unemployed literature professor who has resorted to selling dog food for a living, returns home from a short trip to discover that his wife, Agustina, has gone mad. He... - Read more

  Premio Nacional de Bolivia Banished from her own home and deprived of seeing her son, Lea, a Bolivian immigrant in Toulouse, is forced to go on a “desert crossing”. Upon returning to her country, the ghosts of her dark family past resurface, seriously threatening the protagonist's mental health. Thus begins this novel that from the first moment enwraps us like a spider's web. From the outset, the reader is trapped in a plot... - Read more