Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency

  An endearing story set in Barcelona in the years of the Transition, at the height of the "permissive" period, in which family secrets, the search for identity, religious sects and characters with a murky past intermingle to create the unforgettable portrait of an entire era. In the Barcelona of 1976, Alfredo Burman and his boss, Mr. Moncada, are sacked from their jobs after the publishing house at which they work goes belly up. It is... - Read more

Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by repeated bouts of binge eating followed by purging (usually by vomiting or laxative use) in order to avoid weight gain. Repeated binging and purging may cause disturbances of body electrolytes, heart attacks, erosion of the teeth and other serious mental health problems, like depression, and suicide. Espido suffered from bulimia when she was a teenager, and in this book she collects the... - Read more

Espido Freire builds a wonderful novel about the transforming action of love to overcome sadness. Elena and Sergio make-up a united couple, but the impossibility of becoming parents brings about the lack of love between them and Sergio decides, after twenty years of living together, to leave Elena. She falls into a deep depression that shakes all aspects of her life. Time goes by and Elena receives a request from a distant relative to host... - 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

After fleeing from the police pressure suffered in Bilbao's Little Africa, and after his brief stay in a village in the Navarre Pyrenees, his personal odyssey takes Touré to the City of Light: Paris. The city where his daughter Sira lived and where our shabby character expects to go unnoticed, camouflaged among the many migrants of African origin who live there. For the first time since the beginning of his long journey, Touré... - Read more