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Jun 9, 2023 · The Anthology of the Best Short Stories from Spain is a thrilling and exciting collection that explores the richness and variety of classical Spanish writing, wonderfully translated by Riddhi Maitra.
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Oxford University Press' global City Tales series, featuring new translations of older and modern short stories set in each area, many by local or national authors, has Madrid Tales and Barcelona Tales, both edited by Helen Constantine .
- The Dinner Guest by Gabriela Ybarra, Translated by Natasha Wimmer
- A Heart So White by Javier Marías, Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
- Beautiful and Dark by Rosa Montero, Translated by Adrienne Mitchell
- The Frozen Heart by Almudena Grandes, Translated by Frank Wynne
- The Happy City by Elvira Navarro, Translated by Rosalind Harvey
- The Yellow Rain by Julio Llamazares, Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
- The Family of Pascual Duarte by Camilo José Cela, Translated by Anthony Kerrigan
- All Is Silence by Manuel Rivas, Translated by Jonathan Dunne
- La Casa de Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca, Translated by Emily Mann
- Homeland by Fernando Aramburu, Translated by Alfred Macadam
This is a deeply affecting semi-autobiographical novel. In 1977, Ybarra’s grandfather was kidnapped by Basque separatists, went missing, and then was found murdered. While the story haunted Ybarra’s childhood, many of the details were hushed and kept silent until she decided to dig into their history after her mother’s death, unearthing newspaper a...
Marías is one of Spain’s most celebrated novelists. In A Heart So White Juan, a professional translator, finds himself often crafting words, tweaking messages, holding a power over language. When he gets married, he finds himself digging into his father’s history and interiority, and finds complicity and darkness in the shadows of his own story. “M...
Award-winning journalist and novelist Rosa Montero, known for her feminist novels and her work for newspaper El País, combines the real and the fantastic in Beautiful and Dark. It’s a story about orphan Baba, a young girl living with relatives in El Barrio, struggling with the dark adult world that surrounds her and her neighborhood. She is lucky t...
When Alvaro notices an attractive stranger at his father’s funeral, his curiosity is piqued. Who is she? And why does no one seem to know? When his family then receives a large amount of money, Alvaro goes digging, and discovers an old folder of letters from the 1940s—and finds out that the woman is Raquel Fernandez Perea, whose parents fled Spain ...
I picked this book up in a small used bookstore in Barcelona, its shelves packed with English language books, hidden away on a beautiful street. Navarro has been hailed as one of the rising stars of Spain’s literature scene: in this novel, she tells the story of Chi-Huei, a Chinese son of immigrants, and his friend Sara, a girl intrigued by a homel...
Only one man remains in Ainielle, a small deserted village high up in the Spanish Pyrenees. That man, old and in solitude, wanders, the “yellow rain” of autumn leaves coming down around him as he looks back at his life and town, as he remembers the people and the life that were once with him. Llamazares is a contemporary author focused on the rural...
This classic is a 1942 novel by a Spanish Nobel laureate. Disturbing and dark, this short novel features a man who has decided that violence is the only way to get what he wants, to exist in the world that is deterministic and unkind. Cela writes of the human capacity for violence, for war, and here he is writing in the form of Spanish realism term...
Three young friends, Fins, Brinco, and Leda, spend their days exploring the seashore and picking through what they find. When they stumble on a cache of whisky, they think they have it made—until they find out who it belongs to. This novel, written originally in Galician, is a story about silence—about the historical and oppressive weight of silenc...
When her husband dies, mother Bernarda Alba grows controlling and fierce, keeping her five adult daughters locked in her home, insisting that they institute a strict eight-year mourning period, and trying to even control their day-to-day communication within the home. It’s a tense, tragic sort of play, a work of female strength and sexual repressio...
Patria in its original Spanish, Homeland is a contemporary novel that captures the tense and difficult story of two Basque families in the midst of the violent separatist movement of the ETA. Nonlinear and populated by a multitude of small chapters, Aramburu captures the complex and chaotic lives of these two families, spanning the 1980s to 2011. T...
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- Ficciones, by Jorge Luis Borges. English Title: “Fictions” Date Published: 1944. Country: Argentina. This classic is my absolute favorite. I remember reading Borges for the first time at the age of 15 and coming back to him my whole life.
- El Túnel, by Ernesto Sábato. English Title: “The Tunnel” Date Published: 1948. Country: Argentina. El Túnel shakes you from the very first sentence with the ending of the book that appears at the beginning
- Cien Años de Soledad, by Gabriel García Márquez. English Title: “One Hundred Years of Solitude” Date Published: 1967. Country: Colombia. Cien Años de Soledad is another classic in Spanish whose first sentence sounds familiar to many readers
- Bestiario, by Julio Cortázar. English Title: “Bestiary: Selectet Stories” Date Published: 1951. Country: Argentina. Julio Cortázar is the master of surprise.
Jun 24, 2021 · Featuring over fifty stories selected by revered translator Margaret Jull Costa, it blends old favourites and hidden gems - many of which have never before been translated into English - and introduces readers to surprising new voices as well as giants of Spanish literary culture, from Emilia Pardo Bazán and Leopoldo Alas, through Mercè ...
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Jan 11, 2023 · In the course of his career, he has published fifteen novels, three collections of short stories, and various essays. He is considered one of Spain’s most prolific writers and his books have been translated into forty-six languages and has sold at least 9 million times internationally.
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“Bestiario” is a collection of short stories from the same author who brought us “Rayuela.” This work marks the beginning of Cortázar’s distinctive and innovative literary style.
