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From master storyteller Carlos Ruiz Zafon, author of the international phenomenon The Shadow of the Wind , comes The Angel’s Game — a dazzling new page-turner about the perilous nature of obsession, in literature and in love. The whole of Barcelona stretched out at my feet and I wanted to believe that when I opened those windows — my new windows — each evening its streets would whisper stories to me,... (more)

The Savage Detectives

by Bolano Roberto

New Years Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run.The explosive first long work by the most exciting writer to... (more)

A Manuscript of Ashes

by Antonio Mun?oz Molina

It’s the late sixties, the last dark years of Franco’s dictatorship: Minaya, a university student in Madrid, is caught up in the student protests and the police are after him. He moves to his uncle Manuel’s country estate in the small town of Mágina to write his thesis on an old friend of Manuel’s, an obscure republican poet named Jacinto Solana. The country house is full of traces of the poet—notes,... (more)

The Painter of Battles

by Arturo Perez-Reverte

Acclaimed author Arturo Pérez-Reverte has earned a distinguished reputation as a master of the literary thriller with his international bestsellers The Club Dumas and The Queen of the South. Now, in this haunting new work, Pérez-Reverte has written his most accomplished novel to date. The Painter of Battles is a captivating tale of love, war, art, and revenge. Andrés Faulques, a world-renowned war photographer,... (more)

NADALAFORET CARMEN

NADA

by LAFORET CARMEN

Captain Alatriste: Book 2

Purity of Blood

by Arturo Perez-Reverte

The second swashbuckling adventure in the internationally acclaimed Captain Alatriste series Captain Alatriste, Madrid’s most charismatic swashbuckler, returns in Pérez-Reverte’s acclaimed international bestseller. The fearless Alatriste is hired to infiltrate a convent and rescue a young girl forced to serve as a powerful priest’s concubine. The girl’s father is barred from legal recourse as the... (more)

The Heretic: A Novel of the Inquisition

by Miguel Delibes

The world-renowned literary-historical novel that takes readers on a compelling journey through the Spanish Inquisition.

For a Sack of Bones

by Llui?s-Anton Baulenas

** DEBUT FICTION** This story, among many other things, is about two men who are gone from the world but are still very much mine. Their deaths occurred after the fighting stopped, but the war still got them in the end. This story is also about keeping promises. And it’s about revenge. After eight years in exile, Sergeant Genís Aleu returns to the city of Barcelona bearing the mark of a man who... (more)

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The Angel's Game

by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Savage Detectives

by Bolano Roberto

A Manuscript of Ashes

by Antonio Mun?oz Molina

The Painter of Battles

by Arturo Perez-Reverte

NADA

by LAFORET CARMEN

Purity of Blood

by Arturo Perez-Reverte

The Heretic: A Novel of the Inquisition

by Miguel Delibes

For a Sack of Bones

by Llui?s-Anton Baulenas