SPANISH & CATALAN LANGUAGE AUTHORS
NARRATIVA
- Pablo ARANDA
- Juan Luis ARSUAGA
- Joan BARRIL
- Nuria BARRIOS
- Xuan BELLO
- Felipe BENÍTEZ REYES
- Joan-Daniel BEZSONOFF
- Juan BONILLA
- Dolors BORAU
- Javier CALVO
- Martín CASARIEGO
- Nicolás CASARIEGO
- Paula CIFUENTES
- Mario CUENCA SANDOVAL
- Cristina FALLARÁS
- Pedro FEIJOO
- Josep Maria FONALLERAS
- Antonio GARCÍA ÁNGEL
- Ignacio GARCÍA-VALIÑO
- José A. GARRIGA VELA
- Marcos GIRALT TORRENTE
- Ismael GRASA
- Javier GUTIÉRREZ
- Menchu GUTIÉRREZ
- Najat El HACHMI
- Lourdes IGLESIAS
- Sebastià JOVANI
- Use LAHOZ
- Sonia LAREDO
- José Carlos LLOP
- Pedro MAIRAL
- Ignacio MARTÍNEZ DE PISóN
- Miguel MENA
- Cristina MORALES
- Fabiola MORALES
- Miquel OBIOLS
- Vicenç PAGÈS JORDÀ
- Enric PARDO
- Jordi PUNTÍ
- Emma RIVEROLA
- Félix ROMEO
- Fernando ROYUELA
- Màrius SERRA
- Jordi SOLER
- Ramon SOLSONA
- Andrés TRAPIELLO
- David TRUEBA
- Ángela VALLVEY
- Ignacio VIDAL-FOLCH
- Enrique VILA-MATAS
- Rolando VILLAZÓN
- Pedro ZARRALUKI
Pedro MAIRAL
El año del desierto
Salto de Página, 2010
(The Year of the Desert) A storm advances unremittingly from the suburbs, surrounding the city of Buenos Aires. It transforms vacant buildings filled with vegetation, asphalt studded with weeds. Maria Valdés Neylán, a secretary working in a steel-and-glass skyscraper, will have to survive in a world that has crumbled: where disorder spreads, epidemics have sprouted, and food rots inexplicably fast. Over the span of one year, she will be a nurse and a colonial pioneer, a hostage to the braucos and a goddess among the natives. From the brothels of the port to the expanses of the La Pampa plains, her steps will lead her to forget from where she comes—and remember her story.
(Spain, Salto de Página); (France, Payot & Rivages); (Greece, Polis)
-Book of the week in Babelia
«Strange humor that marries sarcasm with the absurd, a literary scene that features a war of the worlds between fiction, imagination, the past and the present.» J. P. Bertazza, Página/12
«One of the most original works in recent years.» Elle
«A novel that impresses through the art of contemporary metaphors. An excellent—very excellent—novel.» J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, Babelia
«No one who takes on El año del desierto will be disappointed they’ll enjoy every single page.» P. de Biase, Llegas
«The Year of the Desert is one of the most unique and successful novels in Argentine fiction in the last few years.» Luis Pestarini, Cuásar