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JOURNEYS AND FLOWERS

MERCÈ RODOREDA

A mesmerising and enigmatic collection of short stories, haunted by the horrors of war, never before translated into English, and divided into two halves: journeys and flowers. ...

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15,00 €
MAMMOTH

EVA BALTASAR

The followup novel to International Booker-shortlisted Boulder is a story of queer motherhood and survival deep in the countrysideMammoth's protagonist is a disenchanted young lesbian. She's inexperienced, irritated by life, eager to gestate, and determined to strip everything else down to essentials. She seduces men at random, swaps her urban habitat for an isolated farmhouse,...

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19,25 €
ALONE

CARLOTA GURT

A story of unrepentant solitude and asks what aloneness truly means-objective reality or state of mind? A blessing or a prison sentence, the only certainty is that we can't escape solitude unscathed. An inescapable and vivid novel that will leave readers shaken. ...

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22,25 €
SALT

PONÇ PONS GIMÉNEZ

Ponç Pons is an award-winning poet, playwright, fiction writer and translator who works in the menorquí dialect of his native Catalan. As D. Sam Abrams says in his Preface to Salt, Pons celebrates -the things that sustain us and bind us to life: memory, language, affections, and our connection with the earth.- This is the first collection of his work to be translated into Engli...

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11,00 €
BOULDER

EVA BALTASAR

Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname "Boulder." When Samsa gets a job in Reykjavik and the couple decides to move there together, Samsa decides that she wants to have a child. She is already forty and can't bear to let the opportunity pass her by. Boulder is less enthused, but doesn't know how to say no--...

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16,24 €
LEARNING TO TALK TO PLANTS

MARTA ORRIOLS

"Between rage and sadness, Orriols presents a journey towards maturity in a story full of hilarious moments and tenderness." --Diari AraAn immersive, moving novel about complex grief: a woman attempts to rebuild her life after her boyfriend leaves her for another woman, then dies hours later--perfect for fans of Cheryl StrayedPaula's partner has died in a car accident - but no ...

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16,05 €
PERMAFROST

EVA BALTASAR

Permafrost's no-bullshit lesbian narrator is an uninhibited lover and a wickedly funny observer of modern life. Desperate to get out of Barcelona, she goes to Brussels, 'because a city whose symbol is a little boy pissing was a city I knew I would like'; as an au pair in Scotland, she develops a hatred of the color green. And everywhere she goes, she tries to break out of the r...

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17,75 €
SALT WATER

JOSEP PLA

Peter Bush, winner of the Ramon Llull Prize for Literary Translation, brings to English this most prolific and influential of Catalan writers.Dripping with a panache that can turn in a comic instant to the most conciliatory humility, Josep Pla's foray into the land and sea most familiar to him will plunge readers head-first into its mysterious (and often tasty!) depths. Here ar...

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19,95 €
A BROKEN MIRROR

MERCE RODOREDA

In its moment of great splendor the novel was held as a mirror of society: Mercè Rodoreda shatters that mirror in this, her most ambitious novel, which tells its story in brilliant fragments, a vision reflected and refracted and finally coming together in a richly articulated mosaic of life. Through this Broken Mirror, the reader sees events and characters spanning three genera...

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15,40 €
UNCERTAIN GLORY

JOAN SALES

SPAIN, 1937. Posted to the Aragonese front, Lieutenant Lluís Ruscalleda eschews the drunken antics of his comrades and goes in search of intrigue. But the lady of Castel de Olivo - a beautiful widow with a shadowy past - puts a high price on her affections. In Barcelona, Trini Milmany struggles to raise Lluís' son on her own, letters from the front her only solace. With bombs f...

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14,25 €
MOUNT CANIGÓ. A TALE OF CATALONIA

JACINT VERDAGUER

Catalonia's towering Romantic poet and rebel priest, Jacint Verdaguer (1845-1902), delves deep into the Catalan imaginary in his foundational long poem Mount Canigó (1886), recounting the historical and legendary mix, both tragic and triumphant, of the medieval origins of modern Catalonia. The collision between duty and love is mirrored by the symbolic conflict between, on the ...

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28,00 €
IN DIAMOND SQUARE

MERCÈ RODOREDA

Barcelona, early 1930s. Natalia is hesitant when a stranger asks her to dance at the fiesta in Diamond Square. But Joe is charming and forceful, and she takes his hand.They marry and soon have two children. On the roof of their apartment Joe breeds pigeons, which delight his son and daughter. Then the Spanish Civil War erupts and lays waste to the city and to their simple life....

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14,50 €
WHEN I SING, MOUNTAINS DANCE

IRENE SOLA

In her inventive and lyrical second novel When I Sing, Mountains Dance, Irene Solà peels back the layers of a Pyrenees village, where the Spanish Civil War has left a landscape littered with shrapnel and lives haunted by ghosts, and where residents of towns that are losing their young people to the city meet tourists ... ...

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13,64 €
THE TIME OF CHERRIES

MONTSERRAT ROIG

"Natalia Miralpeix returns to Barcelona after twelve years abroad, only a few days after the execution of a Catalan militant anarchist. She encounters a society irrevocably touched by the last years of the Franco regime, in flight from itself."-...

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16,25 €
A THOUSAND MORONS

QUIM MONZÓ

"Today's best known writer in Catalan. He is also, no exaggeration, one of the world's great short-story writers."--The Independent A Thousand Morons, Quim Monzó's latest collection of short stories, is rife with very unfortunate characters. There's the young boy in "A Cut" who is upbraided by his teacher when he rudely shows up for class with a huge gash in his neck. And the p...

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15,50 €

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