A literary thriller?about a contemporary?gallery owner plunged into a fascinating extinct world?Emili Rossell, the young owner of one of Barcelona's top galleries, receives an old manuscript written b
All the heroes of this collection?Ulysses and his minions trapped in the Trojan horse; the man who cannot escape his house; Gregor the cockroach, who wakes one day to discover he has become a human te
Collects the best stories from the three collections the author published before she died, showcasing many pieces that look at love and loss from a European woman's perspective. Original.
Soon to be a major motion picture from the award-winning director Julian Schnabel, starring Freida Pinto. WRITTEN BY the much-admired Italo-Palestinian journalist Rula Jebreal, Miral is a novel that f
An international sensation now available in English for the first time, The?Violin of Auschwitz?is the unforgettable story of one man’s refusal to surrender his dignity in the face of history’s greate
Heribert Julia and Humbert Herrera are opposites: the one can no longer paint, and doesn't much care, the other wants to create the sculpture to end all sculptures, the film of all films, the exhibit
Best known for their love-songs and their invention of Courtly Love, the troubadours were fascinated by debate and devised their entire, multifaceted lyric production on the basis of dialogue. This d
With this highly original collection of short stories, Catalonian writer Jaume Cabré takes his place among the masters of the form. In Winter Journey, the reader encounters disparate and often d
A sequence of 50 poetic works based on the life and paintings of Edward Hopper is an award-winning translation from the Catalan that follows a poetic subject in transit from small-town origins to city
Fast, precise, hilariously timed and mercilessly honest, this lively anthology of stories lays bare every pretension ever to have offered comfort to the middle-class psyche. From the zeal of a mother’
Death in Spring tells the story of the bizarre and destructive customs of a nameless town through the eyes of a fourteen-year-old boy. The boy struggles to come to terms with the rhyme and reason of
Another day in Barcelona, another slimy politician's wife is suspected of infidelity. Lluis Font discovers a portrait of his wife in an exhibition that leads him to conclude he is being cuckolded by
Barcelona’s theater has experienced a remarkable renaissance in the years since the end of the Franco dictatorship. Soon the Catalan language, suppressed for more than three decades, became a vehicle
Fleeting, a disturbing “tragedy within a play,” and Stages, with its monolithic recall of a dead actress, rank among Josep Benet i Jornet’s most important works. They provide an introduction to a play
The figure of the troubadour combines the ideals of knighthood with the inspiration of the poet and musician. It created a cultural explosion which influenced the whole course of Western art and civil
After eight years in exile, Sergeant Genis Aleu returns to the city of Barcelona bearing the mark of a man who has seen many battles - and who has one last mission ahead of him. A soldier in the infa
Regarded as one of Europe’s most important poets of the late nineteenth century, Jacint Verdaguer (1845–1902) provided the modern poetic foundations for the reemergence of Catalan literat
