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Popular Spanish Books Winter 2006 List compiled by Pascale Pine, Spanish Specialist

	2666. Bolaño, Roberto \| Spa FIC B This is Bolaño’s masterpiece, a very potent and panoramic novel that is as well an epic poem, a philosophical essay, mystery, science fiction, journalist reporting, etc., and offers a meditation on evil and death, on literature, forgetfulness, insignificance, and the history of the XXth century. (Chile). Reserve este título
	Adiós, Hemingway. Padura, Leonardo \| Spa FIC P Through a police investigation at the Hemingway museum near La Habana, we witness the last years that Ernest Hemingway spent in Cuba. (Cuba). Reserve este título
	Un arte de hacer ruinas y otros cuentos. Ponte, Antonio José \| Spa FIC P Short stories about La Habana and Cuba, where people are without homes, dispossessed, where those who come back are lost and when they are abroad they create pseudo-tribes so that they can survive. (Cuba). Reserve este título
	La blasfemia gótica. Mendizábal García, Julio \| Spa FIC M This novel about death and craziness is the final work of Mendizábal García, a journalist who died in 2005. (Guatemala). Reserve este título
	Caballo de Troya 7. Nahum. Benítez, J.J. \| Spa FIC B Book Number 7 of the Caballo de Troya series, under the title Nahum – the city of Jesus. (Mexico). Reserve este título
	Canon. Reyes Heroles, Federico \| Spa FIC R Julián and Mariana discover that time and monotony destroy love, but unfaithfulness brings solitude. Maybe what prevail are the moments that determine our everyday history. (Mexico). Reserve este título
	Casa tomada y otros cuentos. Cortázar, Julio \| Spa FIC C A small anthology of short stories by Julio Cortázar chosen between 1951 and 1966. (Argentine). Reserve este título
	La ciudad de los herejes Andahazi, Federico \| Spa FIC A Taking place in the Middle Ages, this story tells the struggle between political and religious powers through a love story. (Argentine). Reserve este título
	Cortos. Fuguet, Alberto \| Spa FIC F A collection of short stories treated in a cinematic way relating the lives of people who have been moved either geographically or emotionally. (Chile). Reserve este título
	Los cuentos de Don Santos. Alvarez Febles, Nelson \| Spa FIC A A collection of short stories that come from different origins, whether anecdotes or total fiction, they all relate to Puerto Rico. (Puerto Rico). Reserve este título
	Cuentos de Nuevos Aires y Buena York. Dabbah, Mariela \| Spa FIC D Short stories for intrepid travelers, fantastic stories that could happen to anyone in modern cities. (Argentine). Reserve este título
	Cuerpo náufrago. Clavel, Ana \| Spa FIC C One day, Antonia wakes up as Antón. How is she/he going to survive and turn into a man? (Mexico). Reserve este título
	La dama azul. Sierra, Javier \| Spa FIC S An historical novel that takes place in 1629, when Franciscan monks arrive in New Mexico to convert the Indians and discover that they have been prepared ahead of time by a mysterious woman who was able to be in two places at the same time. (Spain). Reserve este título
	Los de Moisés. Sotomayor Peterson, Zonia \| Spa FIC S This novel relates the life of a family whose cyclic and repetitive fate destroys them in the end. (Mexico). Reserve este título
	Escenas de la diáspora boricua. Pacheco Rosado, Benjamín \| Spa FIC P Vignettes with a few illustrations where real and fictional characters intervene to provide a glimpse of the Puerto Rican reality of today. (Puerto Rico). Reserve este título
	Estaciones de paso. Grandes, Almudena \| Spa FIC G Here are five stories of difficult and emotional passages in adolescence that will shape the way the characters become as adults. (Spain). Reserve este título
	Historia del rey transparente. Montero, Rosa \| Spa FIC M Taking place in the 12th century, here is the story of Leola, who takes the armor of a slain soldier to protect herself. Her life becomes the thread of a fantastic epic. (Spain). Reserve este título
	El hombre de Montserrat. Liano, Dante \| Spa FIC L Taking place in Guatemala in the 70’s and 80’s, this novel presents two decades of repression, violence and corruption. (Guatemala). Reserve este título
	El hombre que amaba el Sol. Aridjis, Homero \| Spa FIC A Each person has two names: the one he gets when newly born and the one he gives himself when he knows who he really is. It is for that reason that Tomás adopts the name of the Sun in náhuatl: Tonatiuh. (Mexico). Reserve este título
	Las horas del sur. García Ramis, Magali \| Spa FIC G Through the life of her main character, Andrés Estelrich, García Ramis conjures up a vast historical panorama of Puerto Rico. (Puerto Rico). Reserve este título
	La isla de los quizás. Cano, Joel \| Spa FIC C Ignacio dreams of making a film that would win an Oscar and bring the Cuban cinema out of oblivion. With his muse, Juana/Jane, Ignacio starts creating scenes of his to-be famous film. (Cuba). Reserve este título
	La conspiración de la fortuna. Aguilar Camín, Héctor \| Spa FIC A This is the story of Santos Rodríguez, a genius lost in his dreams and passions trying to choose his fate. (Mexico). Reserve este título
	Laberintos y rompecabezas. Mosquera Saravia, Javier \| Spa FIC M Short stories about the absurdity of life and the days that go by. (Guatemala). Reserve este título
	El leopardo al sol. Restrepo, Laura \| Spa FIC Taking place within the Colombian mafia and its complex and intense relationships, here is the story of two families, the Barraganes and the Monsalves, and their brutal feud. (Colombia). Reserve este título
	La noche de Morgana. Benavides, Jorge Eduardo \| Spa FIC B Short stories of suspense revealing the diverse faces of fear; characters that get swallowed or mauled by their environment. (Peru). Reserve este título
	Pasiones romanas. Janer, María de la Pau \| Spa FIC J At the last minute, Ignacio decides not to take his flight home. Instead he goes to Rome to see whether he can find Dana, a woman he loved so much and let go. (Spain). Reserve este título
	El pintor de batallas. Pérez-Reverte, Arturo \| Spa FIC P An old photographer paints the landscape of a battle on a tower wall. He is helped by the memory of a face and the shadow of a woman who disappeared 10 years earlier. (Spain). Reserve este título
	Por los de abajo. Loaeza, Guadalupe \| Spa FIC L In the process of acquiring a social conscience, Clara takes us through two decades of social and political life in Mexico. (Mexico). Reserve este título
	El tren pasa primero. Poniatowska, Elena \| Spa FIC P From a small village in the South of Mexico, thanks to the train passing by, Trinidad Pineda Chiñas will become the vanguard of the railroad workers movement. (Mexico). Reserve este título
	Ursúa. Ospina, William \| Spa FIC O Here is an historical novel relating the life of Pedro de Ursúa and his adventures in Colombia, Peru and the mythic El Dorado. (Colombia). Reserve este título

Popular Spanish Books Winter 2006List compiled by Pascale Pine, Spanish Specialist

Popular Spanish Books Winter 2006
List compiled by Pascale Pine, Spanish Specialist