Carmela and Nico live in a nice house in the suburbs with their little girl, Berta, their dog, Laika, and Olivia, the young Ecuadorian home help. When Olivia arrives one morning to find blood stains at the entrance of the house, a trail of footprints leads her and Nico to a terrible discovery. Beneath the calm, a huge storm brews.

Nothing Ever Happens

Literature & Fiction

Ovejero, José

Literary

Hispabooks

The stories of Chi-Huei—a Chinese boy whose family has come to Spain in search of a better life—and his friend Sara—a girl strangely fascinated by a homeless man—comprise two separate yet complementary sections, presenting the reader with an account of their life circumstances and the nuances of their perspectives: the genuine voices through which they negotiate the world around them.

The Happy City

Navarro, Elvira

Deeply moved by the unknown story of Hurbinek, that three-year-old boy Primo Levi mentioned in "The Truce", the narrator will seek to rescue his memory from oblivion travelling to Auschwitz. A car accident will hinder him from reaching his destiny. While in hospital, he'll invent the possible lives Hurbinek might have lived had he not died in the camp.

The Birthday Buyer

García Ortega, Adolfo

<div>'The Stein Report', set in the island of Majorca in the 1960s, kicks off with the arrival of a newcomer that throws things off balance. Curious about him, Stein's schoolmates will try to unravel the secrets concealed by this enigmatic character--a quest that will lead them to unveil unanswered questions of their own past.</div>

The Stein Report

Llop, José Carlos

United States

Paris depicts a man’s journey through the labyrinth of his memories, a search for his origins that will uncover an old family secret and turn his world upside down. A mesmerizing and haunting story by award-winning author Marcos Giralt Torrente, a master craftsman calibrating nuance and impact with a true gift. The unnamed narrator reflects on the marriage between his mother (aloof, stoic, saintly, and stubborn) and his father (a vain, promiscuous scoundrel). He is fixated on eight mysterious months his mother spent in Paris after they split up, when the narrator was a boy: Did she clandestinely reunite with the father? Did she live out a perennial ambition carefully kept secret? Or did she attempt to sort out another matter entirely, of which the narrator hasn’t the least indication? If he discovers what happened in Paris he might make sense of his parents’ relationship, and, in the process, end the nightmares that still recur twenty-plus years after his parents split up.

Paris

Giralt Torrente, Marcos

A collection of four novellas—"Fatherhood," "Guile," "Fidelity" and "Shopping"—where intense loneliness and desire guide an alienated cast of characters. In these poignant depictions of repression and guilt Barba captures existential mystery in seemingly banal moments of domestic strife, family tension, and romantic entanglements.

Rain Over Madrid

Barba, Andrés

Refering to him by his nickname CometaCatalan for comet”Imma Monsó tells us about the sudden loss of her husband and, using an original structure combining A chaptersA for affection, amusement, acceptance”and B chapters—B for barbarous, brutal, bare”—she bears witness to her life with him, and to her life without him.

A Man of His Word

Monsó, Imma

Relaño, Maruxa

The History of Silence—winner of the prestigious Premio Herralde de Novela on its original publication in Spanish—is a novel with a splendid gallery of characters in which the author displays his implacable sense of humor and shows us to what extent life is a comedy under the constant threat of a tragic ending. A work that reflects on the beauty and the risk of silence, on small unmentionable secrets and betrayals that lurk behind every love.

The History of Silence

Zarraluki, Pedro

Gabriel Ariz is an art professor relentlessly pursued by misfortune—his only daughter dies in a traffic accident, his wife decides to divorce him, and on top of it all, he is diagnosed with a severe kidney disease that will put him into unending hemodialysis sessions and force him to quit his job at the university.
Solitude, illness, failure, and the will to carry on despite it all are themes central to Gabriel's account of his experience—a quest for survival and a coming to terms with oneself.
Winner of the 2008 Premio Tiflos de Novela on its original publication in Spain.
Juan Gracia Armendáriz is a Spanish fiction writer and contributor to many Spanish newspapers.

The Plimsoll Line

Gracia Armendáriz, Juan

Winner of the Premio Ojo Crítico and Premio Tigre Juan, The Violet Hour is the celebration of a life cut short. A deeply moving memoir that shows us the inner life of a man confronted with his own limitations.Children who lose their parents are orphans, and those who have to close their spouse's dead eyes are widows and widowers. But we, the parents who sign the documents authorizing our children's funerals, we have no name, no civil status. We remain parents forever.Sergio del Molino is a Spanish writer and journalist who lives in Zaragoza. He has worked for almost ten years as a reporter in the Heraldo de Aragón, where he writes a Sunday column.

The Violet Hour

Del Molino, Sergio

Parenting & Relationships

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