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Francisco Ángeles
Austin, Texas 1979. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pedro Badrán
El hombre de la cámara mágica. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marta Caparrós
Filtraciones.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Francisco Díaz Klaassen
La hora más corta.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Juan Sebastián Gaviria
La venta.. .......... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patricio Jara
Antipop............ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Austin, Texas 1979
The Man with the Magic Lens
11
Leakages
The Shortest Hour
12
The Sale
Antipop
Luciano Lamberti
La maestra rural.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . José Supera
El limpiavidrios. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Iván Thays
Antonio vuelve a casa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aura Xilonen
Campeón gabacho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Raúl Zurita
Tu vida rompiéndose.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
The Rural Teacher
Window Washer
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Gringo Champion
Your Life Breaking Apart
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index
Antonio Returns Home
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Austin,
Texas 1979
El hombre de la
cámara mágica
Francisco Ángeles
Pedro Badrán
Literatura
Random House
Literatura
Random House
Pages: 136
Pages: 232
Pub. date:
November 2015
Pub. date:
November 2015
A man has just separated from his wife. He feels
helpless and begins therapy. In the therapist’s
waiting room, he meets Adriana, with whom
he becomes sexually entangled. Adriana begins
revealing the traumas of her birth and a whole mess
of perverse confessions unfurls that confuse him
even further. It is a novel about the fracturing of the
self, masculinity and its demands, fatherhood and
disappointment, but above all, it is a book about the
desire to break oneself apart in order to start all over
again.
The Man with the Magic
Lens
With his Polaroid camera, Tony Lafont strikes
out to create an exhaustive inventory of a hotel in
Cartagena. The novel is the story of both the hotel
and its photographer, but above all, it is an acute and
intimate depiction of its contrasting characters, who
are splendid, naïve, tender, melancholy and joyful.
This novel is also a chronicle of lives that pass by
slowly, without an expiration date, as they wait to
enter the final room.
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Austin, Texas 1979
PERU / Francisco Ángeles
Francisco Ángeles (Lima, 1977) is a writer, critic,
journalist and blogger. In 2008, he created the
literary website Porta9 and has been co-director
of the literary magazine El Hablador since 2005.
COLOMBIA / Pedro Badrán
Pedro Badrán was awarded the National Short
Novel Award in 2000 for his novel El día de la
mudanza. His novel Un cadáver en la mesa es
mala educación (2003) received an award from
the Paris municipality and his novel La pasión de
Policarpa (2010) received critics’ acclaim.
Filtraciones
La hora
más corta
Marta Caparrós
Francisco
Díaz Klaassen
Caballo de Troya
Pages: 272
Alfaguara
Pub. date:
November 2015
Pages: 128
Pub. date:
March 2016
A journalist who gets pregnant, a young woman
striving to repair a relationship while joining the
labor union, a language teacher on strike hosting
a father that spies on his son, and two friends
whose stay in Berlin ends up turning into a forced
exile. Their stories of instability depict the new
politicization of Spain after the economic crisis: the
15M movement, which since 2011 has demanded
a more participative democracy, and has led to
the creation of new political parties and social
movements.
During a suffocatingly hot summer in New York,
two foreigners share a claustrophobic, rat-infested
apartment. The woman hates her job and grows
more absent every day; the man is bored and unable
to write his thesis, instead, spending every night to
spying on his neighbors. The passing days become
a prison of fragmented events. Before a year has
passed the rats will have disappeared, and with
them, the woman and the neighbors. All that will
be left is the man, his stagnation and decline, in the
shortest hour.
SPAIN / Marta Caparrós
CHILE / Francisco Díaz Klaassen
Marta Caparrós holds a bachelor’s degree in
Literary Theory by the Universidad Complutense
de Madrid, and a master in Journalism by UAM-El
País. She was awarded the Guía del Ocio prize for
film criticism. In 2015, she was shortlisted for the
short novel Encina de Plata award.
Francisco Díaz Klaassen is the author of Antología
del cuento nuevo chileno (2009) and El hombre
sin acción (2011), and the short story collections
Cuando éramos jóvenes (2012) and Cuentos
yanquis (2015). He studied English Literature at
the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and
Creative Writing at New York University.
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The Shortest Hour
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Leakages
La venta
Antipop
Juan Sebastián
Gaviria
Patricio Jara
Alfaguara
Literatura Random
House
Pages: 224
Pub. date:
May 2016
Pages: 162
The Sale
Antipop
Ronnie has earned himself a reputation, and a
fortune, through the buying and selling of precious
stones and stolen objects. His assistant, Julio, helps
him out with the job. They receive a visit from a man
with an intriguing proposal: a two-million-dollar
offer for them to purchase Che Guevara’s embalmed
hands. Minutes later, the man is gunned down at the
building’s exit. Convinced that his murder is related
to the sale, Ronnie and Julio seek to get rid of the
hands, but not before confirming their origin. The
author builds a philosophical thriller that explores
the nature of human moral and economical values.
Claudio Eicke is a sound engineer specializing in
rock music, whose recording studio is filled with
analog equipment, including some real relics. He
lives in a state of constant financial precariousness,
but a lucky break makes his recording studio famous,
attracting the industry’s attention. His name is all
over the media and new clients quickly start flocking
his way, among them a pop musician who Claudio
can’t stand because he represents everything he
hates. However, Claudio will have no choice but to
agree to work with him.
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Pub. date:
November 2015
CHILE / Patricio Jara
COLOMBIA / Juan Sebastián Gaviria
Juan Sebastián Gaviria was expelled from an
American military academy at the age of 17. His
years as a wanderer in South American highways
are registered in more than 700 poems compiled
in Cicatriz souvenir. At the age of 23 he embarked
on a motorbike journey to Alaska which would turn
into a cruise throughout the Americas, as told in
his autobiographical novel Brújulas rotas.
Patricio Jara is the author of El sangrador, which
won Best Manuscript in 2002 from the Consejo
Nacional de Libro. He is a journalist and he has
also written scripts for the Theater Company of
the Universidad de Antofagasta.
other books :
El mar enterrado (Alfaguara, 2013), Geología de
un planeta desierto (Alfaguara, 2013), El exceso
(Alfaguara, 2012) and Quemar un pueblo (Alfaguara,
2012).
La maestra rural
El limpiavidrios
Luciano Lamberti
José Supera
Literatura Random
House
Reservoir Books
Pages: 208
Pages: 288
Pub. date:
October 2015
Pub. date:
April 2016
An unsettling tale that uses an array of voices from
one town to untangle the paranoid or supernatural
story of a unique rural teacher. It is a story that
becomes fragmented and covers many years and
places, until arriving at terrible consequences for
humanity. A fable on the origins of true poetry. A
thriller without a crime or a detective, a suspense
story that explores conspiracy theories, parallel
realities, deranged rants and subtle doses of humor,
and an eccentric narration that forces each reader to
rise to the occasion as investigator.
A window washer reflects on his life as he spends his
days hanging from the heights. What he sees behind
the windows as he cleans them, the lives he wishes
he had and his tragic, lonely past mix together in a
bleak, agonizing present. This is a tale with multiple
threads: the personal story of the window washer,
a love story, the search for his father, the teacher
who disappeared, and a journey of self-discovery. It
is also a story of mystery having to do with what is
happening on the seventh floor.
ARGENTINA / Luciano Lamberti
Luciano Lamberti holds a degree in Modern
Literature from the Universidad Nacional de
Córdoba. He has published the volume of
poetry San Francisco (2008), three short story
collections: Sueños de siesta (2006), El asesino
de chanchos (2010) and El loro que podía adivinar
el futuro (2012), selected as one of the best books
of the year in a survey by Ñ magazine, and the
novella Los campos magnéticos (2013).
ARGENTINA / José Supera
José Supera (La Plata) won first honorable
mention in the Página/12 New Novel Contest for
The Window Washer. He has published the books
Atrapamoscas de Venus, La resurrección de la
carne and Sin ver La Paz en Bolivia.
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Window Washer
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The Rural Teacher
Antonio
vuelve a casa
Campeón gabacho
Aura Xilonen
Iván Thays
Literatura Random
House
Pages: 336
Alfaguara
Pages: 204
Pub. date:
November 2015
Antonio Returns Home
Gringo Champion
Antonio is a man in his fifties who’s been married
to the same woman from a young age, with whom
he has a grown-up son and a job where he’s been
promoted to manager. One day, Antonio seems to
have split in two: another Antonio, a fake one, has
taken his place. What really happened? Iván Thays
has created a disturbing story, where the normal life
of a normal man is unflinchingly revealed: Antonio’s
dull hatred of married life, his failure as a parent,
his resentment towards his father, his invisibility at
work and the absence of life’s meaning.
In this novel, Aura Xilonen deals with the social
problems, loneliness, and fear that migrants face, but
also with the love. Liborio is a Mexican young man,
a mojado who crossed the Río Bravo and moved to
the US in search of a better future. When he gets
the chance to work at a bookstore, he fuels his erotic
fantasies by watching girls. One day, he meets one of
the objects of his fantasies and she brings meaning
to his life. Then, his story takes an unexpected turn:
he becomes a boxer.
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November 2015
PERU / Iván Thays
Iván Thays (Lima, 1968) studied Literature and
Linguistics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica
del Perú. He runs the blog «MoleskineLiterario».
Previous works include: Las fotografías de
FrancesFarmer (1992); the novels Escena de caza
(1995), El viaje interior (1999), La disciplina de la
vanidad (2000), Un lugar llamado Oreja de Perro
(2009) and Un sueño fugaz (2011).
Netherlands > Wereldbibliotheek; Italy > Rizzoli; France
> Éditions Liana Levi; UK&US> Europa Editons.
MEXICO / Aura Xilonen
Her literary debut, Campeón gabacho, was
awarded the Literatura Random House Premio
Mauricio Achar, 2015. In 2015, Xilonen won the
second-place prize from the Autonomous
University of Puebla for a short film, and first
place for best original screenplay, Celaghdki, from
the University Cultural Complex.
Tu vida
rompiéndose
Una antología
personal
Raúl Zurita
Lumen
Pages: 352
Pub. date:
October 2015
Your Life Breaking Apart
A Personal Anthology
Raúl Zurita is one of the most renowned living
poets in Chile, and one of the most important
Latin American poets of the 20th Century. Zurita
received the Pablo Neruda award (1988), the
National Literature Prize (2000), and the José
Lezama Lima award (2006). His poetry has been
translated into English, French, and German.
other books :
El día más blanco (Literatura Random House, 2015).
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CHILE / Raúl Zurita
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If in the 1970s anyone thought the time for poetry’s
greatness in Chile had ended, Zurita appeared to
demonstrate, from his very first book, that it was not,
and that it all remained to be written. This personal
anthology not only rescues the best of this unique
poetic production, but through a new structure it
also represents Zurita himself, making this book the
great legacy of one of the most outstanding living
poets in the Spanish language.
For further information, please contact:
Justyna Rzewuska
Clara Stern
Foreign Rights Director
Adult Fiction & Non-Fiction Spain
Audiovisual rights worldwide
Foreign Rights Manager
Adult Fiction & Non-Fiction Latin America
Tel. +34 93 366 02 91
[email protected]
María Reina de la Puebla
Tel. +52 (55) 30678400 ext. 52142
[email protected]
Conxita Estruga
Foreign Rights Manager
Adult Fiction & Non-Fiction Spain
Licensing & Merchandising worldwide
and Foreign Rights Manager Children and Young
Adult worldwide
Tel. +34 93 366 03 13
[email protected]
Tel. +34 93 366 01 75
[email protected]