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Popular Spanish Titles, Spring 2005


	Al volver la esquina Laforet, Carmen Set in the Spanish postwar period, this novel depicts a series of unusual and complex characters who were friends as adolescents and are meeting again in a bohemian world. (Spain) Reserve This Title
	Un amante indiscreto Santos, Luis R. As well as the memories of a man who dedicated his life to seduce women, this book shows also how Dominicans men seduced their women and their reactions. (Dominican Republic) Reserve This Title
	Angélica en la ventana (cuentos) Mosquera Saravia, Javier Short stories about elusive love, hope, solitude and a permanent search of the soul trying to void the absurdity of living. (Guatemala) Reserve This Title
	Bajo el magnolio Mayoral, Marina There are always two versions for any love story, and this book brings back the unsatisfied dreams and wishes, illusions and memories. (Spain) Reserve This Title
	Cabo Trafalgar Pérez-Reverte, Arturo Commissioned by Alfaguara, this book reveals Pérez-Reverte’s version of one of the most famous naval battles, Trafalgar. (Argentine) Reserve This Title
	Castillos de cartón Grandes, Almudena The suicide of Marcos, a successful artist, makes María José remember her happy years in a fine arts college which she spent with two students that were also her lovers, Marcos and Jaime. (Spain) Reserve This Title
	La cita y otros cuentos de mujeres infieles Montero, Rosa This book is a gathering of short stories from authors all around the world and at different periods, but with the common theme of women’s unfaithfulness. Reserve This Title
	Conductores suicidas García Valdearena, Alejo Four young men are trying to make society question itself while they are traveling and having fun. (Argentine) Reserve This Title
	La dama, la cocinera y la cortesana Marisol \| Spa FIC M When Pilar inherits her grandmother’s diaries, she learns through them the secret rituals to become beautiful and a great cook so that she will be able to seduce the man she loves. (Venezuela) Reserve This Title
	El diputado Guzmán Estrella, Luis In a mix of fiction and reality this short novel reflects the way of living of public individuals who have reached high positions and who will eventually harvest what they have sown. (Dominican Republic) Reserve This Title
	En la distancia Aldecoa, Josefina An autobiography of a writer who was part of the generation of the 50’s, and who assembles the fragments of her life as the jigsaw puzzle of her memory. (Spain)
	Errante en la sombra Andahazi, Federico Juan Molina, a lover of tango, lives in the shadow of Carlos Gardel. In this musical novel, the characters express themselves through songs and dance, and the story unravels itself like a show. (Argentina)
	Éstos son los días Chimal, Alberto Short stories that bring the unusual into everyday life as proof that it’s always part of it. (Mexico) Reserve This Title
	La eternidad del instante Valdés, Zoé. Through the diaries of Maximiliano Mejía, a 100-year-old Cuban, we discover his secret life as Mo Ying who, years ago, left his family to follow his father’s path on the Silk Road and who led a fascinating life in many countries. (Cuba) Reserve This Title
	Génesis si acaso Garrido, Angel Taking place in Sabana de la Mar in the 1940’s until the end of the Trujillo’s regime, this book recreates with consummate skills the atmosphere and ambience of the period. (Dominican Republic) Reserve This Title
	La gula del picaflor Lechín Weise, Juan Claudio A secret convention of seven seducers chaired by don Juan, an old union leader, is taking place in La Paz, and is observed by a handful of “international delegates” who will comment on each intervention. (Bolivia) Reserve This Title
	Hasta siempre, mujercitas Serrano, Marcela Four cousins who, as children, used to identify with the characters of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott have to test the strength of their emotional ties and face what they need to renounce. (Chile) Reserve This Title
	La hermandad de la sábana santa Navarro, Julia A mystery that starts today with a fire in the cathedral of Turin and goes back to the Templar Knights. (Spain) Reserve This Title
	Invierno sin nieve Voltes, Joaquín In an imaginary country suddenly invaded, Anatoli Ulianov and nine others find themselves prisoners in a garage. Once the invasion ends, Anatoli will try to paint the most beautiful painting of the Virgin, but cannot overcome his psychic wounds. (Spain) Reserve This Title
	Jugando con chicos Valdés Rodríguez, Alisa Three women, Marcella, Olivia and Alexis, are trying to find professional success and love in Los Angeles. They will become friends although their lives and personalities are totally different. (Cuba) Reserve This Title
	Julia Castañon, Armando A sociological novel that deals with sexual abuse and women’s exploitation in the plantations of the South Coast of Guatemala. (Guatemala)
	Mil y una muertes Ramírez, Sergio Following the life of an enigmatic photographer, Castellón, we are taken to the ghetto of Varsovia, to a Carthusian monastery in Mallorca and to the port of Greytown in Nicaragua. (Nicaragua) Reserve This Title
	Un millón de luces Sánchez, Clara A book celebrating all the miseries and pleasures that can be felt in the world of offices when people try to adjust to ever-changing reality. (Spain) Reserve This Title
	La musa fatal Toscano, Carmen Here is the portrait of a beautiful woman, Rosario de la Peña, in the romantic 19th century in Mexico and the tale of the passionate love that she inspired in many men.(Mexico) Reserve This Title
	Ni a tontas ni a locas Río, Ana María del These three short novels are stories about solitude, eroticism and repression, but can also be read as metaphors about hypocrisy, dictatorship, fanaticism and the hope of freedom. (Chile) Reserve This Title
	El paraguas de Manhattan Mitre, Eduardo “A poet of the world” as A. Muñoz Molina introduces E. Mitre alluding to poems that speak of modern city, loss of self, disorientation. (Bolivia) Reserve This Title
	Pecados y pecadillos Kattán Zablah, Jorge Short stories about socio-politico-religious themes treated with humor and irony.(San Salvador) Reserve This Title
	La pelirroja Estrada, Roberto The story of three marginal characters, three loners whose lives will be linked irremediably in La Habana: Juan Luis who gets the most pleasure by killing his lovers, Andux who lived in Angola and is trying to forget a traumatic experience, and Nilda, a high-flying prostitute. (Cuba) Reserve This Title
	Por el lado oscuro Salazar, Oswaldo The author re-creates the most controversial crime that happened during the first half of the 20th century in Guatemala in a novel that is as much political as it is psychological and historical. (Guatemala) Reserve This Title
	Santa Abundancia Ocaña, Antonio Novel set on a fictional planet, Ander, similar to Earth, but where only four continents exist. The fourth one, Ankor, is separated from the others by large oceans and its inhabitants are a mix of all races. This is the mythical story of an island in Ankor, called Santa Abundancia. (Dominican Republic) Reserve This Title
	La santa muerte Homero, Aridjis \| Spa FIC A These are short stories about drug dealers, politicians, delinquents, policemen, etc., who pray to the image of violent death, Santa Muerte, so they get protection from their enemies. (Mexico) Reserve This Title
	La sombra del viento Ruiz Zafón, Carlos Taking place in Barcelona in 1945, here is a literary mystery where a cursed book will take the hero through a maze of intrigues and secrets. (Spain) Reserve This Title
	Sueños de perro Orsi, Guillermo Sebatián Mareco goes back to his past when he learns of the death of an old friend of his, El Chivo. This gives us an outlook of the last decade in Argentina and how crimes and passions thrive in Buenos Aires without meaning or punishment. (Argentine) Reserve This Title
	Todas las Colombias Bennassar, Bartolomé Taking place in Colombia and showing all aspects of this country in the middle of the war, this is the story of three men who, in spite of their diverse origins, are idealists.(Spain) Reserve This Title
	Ventanas de Manhattan Muñoz Molina, Antonio This book is about the contrasts of New York as they appear to the author walking in the city and looking at its windows: a mix of facts and storytelling. Reserve This Title
	Vivir en el maldito trópico Unger, David Here is the story of a Jewish family in the 80’s in Guatemala through the lives of three brothers, depicting also the many rules and behaviors in vogue at that time in Latin America. (Guatemala) Reserve This Title
	Yo, yegua Casas, Francisco Taking place in Santiago in the 80’s, this is the tale of two artists caught up in the last months of the regime. (Chile) Reserve This Title
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