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      • Literature & Literary Studies
        June 2020

        Solo

        by Marcelo Vera

        La muerte de Clara produce un efecto devastador en su pareja, quien además de abandonar su trabajo decide encerrarse para atesorar cada recuerdo y detener así el irremediable avance del tiempo. Esta novela sobre la pérdida narra el relato íntimo de un hombre que busca sentido mientras atraviesa un duelo frenético y delirante.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2020

        En tus manos

        Acompañar en la enfermedad y preparar una buena muerte

        by Jose Mª Avendaño

        Lo grande, lo importante, se esconde en lo pequeño, en la simplicidad, en el abandono. Así lo repite el autor, de una u otra manera, en su canto, porque este libro es un canto.Estas páginas nos hacen descubrir, en la memoria filial y creyente, la belleza de la creación y de la salvación encarnada en un pueblo de La Mancha, en la vida de un hombre sencillo, bueno, un campesino honrado y creyente sincero, en el escenario de una familia rural y piadosa.Unas memorias cristianas llenas de agradecimiento, de profundidad, de sentido. La historia que cuenta este libro no es fantasía, no es ficción, sino una historia real, la historia de Cándido.Nos encontramos con temas fundamentales de nuestra existencia: la vida, la familia, el sufrimiento, la muerte, el duelo, la orfandad, el acompañamiento de los que sufren, etc.El mejor camino para la aceptación del sufrimiento y de la muerte, para superar el duelo, es asumirlo, hacerlo parte de nuestra vida, comulgar con él con la certeza de que hemos vencido en el Aquel que murió y resucitó por nosotros.

      • November 2019

        My Grampas Garden

        by Valerie Padilla

        Album book that portrays the value of ties, created from a daily experience, and what they leave in each person. Talks about family relationships, deals with the issue of bereavement. Libro album que habla acerca de la importancia de la creacion de relaciones humanas.  temáticas, Vìnculo, duelo,

      • CARTA PRAT 2

        by PABLO MONREAL

        El hacker más inteligente del colegio resulta ser el corrupto presidente de centro de estudiantes del colegio Prat. Él, versus el detective-cartero, Emilio tendrán un duelo de cartas donde se juegan la vida y la oportunidad de volver a tener una cotidianidad normal. los colegios de mujeres, n°2 y n°5, llegan al colegio Prat. Tendrán que juntar fuerzas para encontrar al psicopata que va detrás del niño cartero. Kuritsa, el hacker de la estrella roja, entra en acción.

      • Literature & Literary Studies

        Nostalgia de la madre muerta

        by Federico Zurita Hecht

        El recuerdo, el olvido y el dolor son el mapa que trama la historia de cuatro generaciones de hombres que han perdido a su madre. Cada uno, desde sus distintos tiempos y oficios, añoran rescatar y representar la idea de su madre en su memoria y están impulsados a recuperarla como una parte desgarrada de su propia identidad. En esta novela un hijo puede ser un padre, un abuelo o un bisnieto porque la experiencia que los une, bañados de nostalgia, es común a toda la humanidad.

      • Entre ángeles y moscas

        by Flor Bosco

        Imaginería perpetua la idea del tiempo y sus palabras. Búsqueda entre los recovecos e intersticios del pasado: celosías agrietadas y hierbajos. Secuencia volátil, rabiosa, la del insecto. ¿De qué nos hablan estos poemas de Flor Bosco? Nos hablan del dios de la infancia, anomalías, gracia mística. Poemas que murmuran, sisean, ríen casi en silencio. Hablan de duelo, telas antiguas, canarios, olor a naftalina, cirio, taconcitos, pavorreales, ternura envuelta en andrajos y devota tristeza. Entre Ángeles y Moscas permanece la idea del asombro como guiño, como evidencia, universo propio: el cotidiano de la poeta. Sabemos que todo es parte de todo. Sabemos que la poesía es un texto que se teje con algunos hilos de otros textos. Sabemos que hablamos el lenguaje absoluto del balbuceo. Así que Flor Bosco también teje, también trama. Las raras criaturas, los poemas, también comen. ¿Su alimento? El Tiempo.

      • April 2019

        Wrting Grief

        by Victoria-Eufenia Díaz-FacioLince

        The death of loved ones causes a deep pain associated with the rupture of a bond, and brings the bereaved face to face with a process of mourning. When the loss occurs suddenly or violently, or when it fractures the supposed laws of life, the mourning process has to also tackle the effects of disruption. In response to death, men of all ages have appealed to strategies of various kinds, including symbolic practices such as rituals and writing, with which they attempt to organize the experience of mourning and rebuild their fractured life. “La escritura de duelo” studies a specific way of writing about death, the memories of mourning, and investigates in them two basic issues: the role of writing in processes of mourning, and the meanings about the experience of loss that unfold in some of these autobiographical stories. He argues that these are narratives in which writers simultaneously address the works of memory and mourning when they bring the memory of a loved one to the present and reconfigure its image; when they review the history of the bond and construct meaning in the face of loss. Writing thus helps to reorder their fractured existence, to transform the bond with their deceased beloved and to consolidate their remembrance in the realm of memory.

      • Children's & young adult: general non-fiction
        2019

        Fiesta!

        Learn How People Celebrate in America

        by Ángeles Quinteros, Ángeles Vargas

        This book wants to celebrate the cultural richness that comes from the native people and from different migration processes that vitalize our whole continent. Along with an attractive design, based on illustrations and images, the objective is to encourage children to have a positive attitude towards reading a text of greater difficulty, and thus contribute to a comprehensive education, developing reading skills and the cultural heritage of little readers. At the same time you will discover shared experiences that unite us as one great nation—like slavery or the cycles of Mother Earth—which are remembered and celebrated in ways you would never have imagined. Find out and celebrate the most interesting and beautiful festivals in America, a continent full of colors!

      • Fiction
        December 2018

        Ola de frio

        by Diego Pita

        Cold wave isn’t a novel about drugs and alcohol, nor is it a descent to the hell of substance abuse. It’s also not a novel about the economic crisis and how it changed Madrid forever. It’s not the story of individual or collective failure. It’s not only the devastating portrait of loneliness and desperation. It’s not a treaty on crude sexuality. In no case is it a moral tale, it doesn’t contain a message or ethical lesson. Everything mentioned above can be found in the pages of Cold wave, but it also contains the complete opposite. There is abstinence and redemption. There is a deep and urgent desire of finding peace and meaning to an empty life. There is a remote but growing whisper of hope. It’s the portrait of a regained vital impulse that fights to escape an inherited curse. The first trace of a sketch of the life that lays in front and, at the same time, the mourning of one wasted. A devastating change of skin that is born with the first frozen night of a Madrid winter. Ola de frío no es una novela sobre drogas y alcohol ni un descenso a los infiernos de la adicción. Tampoco es una novela sobre la crisis económica ni sobre cómo esta cambió la faz de la ciudad de Madrid para siempre. No es la historia de un fracaso individual o colectivo. No es únicamente un retrato devastador de soledad y desesperación. No es un tratado sobre una sexualidad descarnada. En ningún caso es un relato moral, no tiene mensaje ni moraleja.Ola de frío contiene en sus páginas todo lo citado anteriormente, pero también alberga todo lo contrario. Hay abstinencia y redención. Hay un profundo y urgente deseo de encontrar paz y sentido a una vida vacía. Hay un remoto pero creciente susurro de esperanza. Es el retrato de un recuperado impulso vital que lucha por zafarse de una maldición heredada. El primer trazo de un boceto de una vida por vivir y, al mismo tiempo, el duelo por una vida malgastada. Un desgarrador cambio de piel que nace con la primera noche helada del invierno madrileño.

      • Health & Personal Development
        November 2019

        How to make good things happen to you

        Understand your brain, manage your emotions, improve your life.

        by Marian Rojas

        The author offers a deep reflection, sprinkled with useful advice with an edifying aim, on the application of our abilities to achieve a full and happy existence. To this end, she brings together scientific, psychological and human points of view. This full and happy existence is achieved in the knowledge and optimization of certain areas of the brain. With this book we will learn to set goals and objectives, exercise our will, activate emotional intelligence, develop assertiveness, avoid excessive self-criticism and self-demands, and affirm our optimism.

      • Fiction
        June 2020

        Drawings of Hiroshima

        by Marcelo Simonetti

        “The sky was covered with grey clouds. The drizzle was lighter than normal, almost pious. The Japanese were advancing through the streets with short, fast steps. Satoru was ahead of them. He pedaled at a good pace. From his bicycle seat, the city revealed itself to his eyes as a sequence of frames. It was strange to be there, in his grandfather's city, and to ride through it as he had probably never done before: on two wheels. Even so, the possibility that the route he was taking would intersect with the routes that his grandfather had taken when he was a child, provoked an intimate emotion in him. Those landscapes were over eighty years old, including an atomic bomb, but it was the land where Ryu Nakata had learned to walk, to speak, to read”. The death of his grandfather, awakens in the young Yasuhiro Nakata the desire to know the family history, especially after finding a letter in which he discovers another side of the old man whose last words were: 'Hiroshima, Hiroshima', warning of the existence of a secret. As a result, Yasuhiro embarks on a journey that will take him from Valparaiso to Hiroshima, where his grandfather emigrated ten years before the atomic disaster. This is the beginning of Drawings of Hiroshima— a charming story that allows readers to follow the protagonist on a journey in which he not only reconnects with his Japanese origins, but also questions his present, his interpersonal relationships and his interest in writing, deepening the unconscious desire to understand the role that he plays in a story that is not his own but yet challenges him directly. With this new release, Marcelo Simonetti addresses issues such as migration and identity, connecting the historic Chilean port of Valparaiso with the memory of the tragedy occured in the Japanese city.

      • July 2019

        Desplazamientos-Beatriz González

        by Francisco Javier Gil, Elkin Rubiano, María Alejandra Fajardo.

        La presente exposición y los textos que la acompañan proceden de un proyecto de investigación-creación desarrollado por Mariana Dicker, María Alejandra Fajardo, Elkin Rubiano y Javier Gil. Esta exploración pretende pensar las relaciones entre creación artística y memoria a partir de la producción artística de Beatriz González de los últimos 20 años. Consideramos que las imágenes toman posición frente a lo real; no representan lo dado o lo sucedido, sino que lo crean y dimensionan desde sus particulares modos de pensar. Tampoco aspiran a explicaciones totalizantes; significan a través de momentos, fragmentos, detalles y relaciones inéditas. Lo visual toca lo real sin aspirar a verdades absolutas y cerradas, pero desde sus singularidades expresivas renueva la percepción y la comprensión del mundo. En ese contexto, consideramos que el trabajo de Beatriz González construye memoria, asumiendo que esta no se refiere a dar cuenta de hechos objetivos ocurridos en el pasado, sino como una construcción simbólica, un trabajo, una nueva dimensión de sentido vinculada a la creación artística. Sus obras confirman las posibilidades que tienen el arte de participar en la generación de otras historias, de hacer hablar el pasado de otro modo, de expresar lo inexpresado por la historia oficial.

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        June 2020

        Swarms

        by Edgar Borges

        A plague of flying insects is damaging an undefined city in an abstract present. Vibrant and disturbing swarms darken the sky, while violence spread in the streets and the number of suicides increases exponentially.   Five young men take shelter in a house away in the woods, far from the collective delusion, fear and sufferance that reigns in the city. Voluntarily confined, the five friends will face solitude and despair; they will go through their own memories and dreads, living in an oneiric atmosphere between life and death.

      • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        April 2021

        Sueños de la Euro

        El torneo que reconcilió a un continente

        by Miguel L. Pereira

        As Paul Auster once said, football is the miracle that allowed Europe to hate itself without destroying itself. The ball has done more than any other political project for brotherhood in a land too used to fighting with itself. After each conflict, it was necessary for the ball to be there to make the continent a space of union and not a perpetual trench. For this reason, every time the European Championship is held, there is a part of the world that looks into each other's eyes and shakes hands. For this reason, when we write about the 60 years of history of this emblematic tournament, we are really drawing our memories, our fears and our desires as Europeans. Because the dreams of Delaunay, Panenka, Charisteas, Aragonés or Éder are also our dreams.

      • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        June 2021

        Prórroga

        by Antonio Agredano

        “In a world of winners, defeat is a kind of dissidence. Losing is not a romantic exercise, it hurts like a stepfather, but you learn. All victories are alike, but each defeat is similar in its own way; There are many ways to cry, but everyone drinks champagne the same way. This is not a football book. Not only. Because in football there is room for a life”. Julián Bellón, at the age of 40, returns to Córdoba due to the death of his father. That loss will drag him to his childhood, to his neighborhood, to the bars and to the people who saw him grow up, the last place of armored happiness before his life twisted and fell into a spiral of self-destruction. The boy who became a goalkeeper still dreaming of scoring a goal, the young man who later became a professional goalkeeper, today is a broken man cornered by memories of him. Is there time for redemption before the final whistle?

      • Fiction

        Rewind

        by Juan Tallón

        SHORTLISTED FOR IV PREMIO BIENAL DE NOVELA MARIO VARGAS LLOSA 2021 -   One Friday in May, on what is shaping up to be a perfect day, there is a strange explosion in a building in Lyon. One of the flats in the now ruined building was occupied by a group of students from various countries who were having a party. Paul, student of Fine Art; Emma, tormented by the tortuous history of her Spanish family; Luca, fascinated both with mathematics and with the cyclist, Marco Pantani; and Ilka, a student who left Berlin with nothing more than a guitar on her back: these are the tenants of a house that was a popular meeting place for the city’s students. In the neighbouring flat, also hit by the explosion, lives a quiet Moroccan family, whose members are apparently well-integrated into French life. The novel explores events from various points of view. Through five narrators – victims and witnesses – we discover what happened that Friday night and the consequences that unfolded over the next three years, until their accounts have covered every hidden aspect of the explosion.   Rewind explores whether it is possible to rewind events. And examines our personal ghosts, the role of chance, the people who in the end we do not become, the secrets that must or must not be told, and our capacity to remake ourselves when we are broken. This novel is an espionage operation that investigates the mechanisms of life. How it changes without warning, turns, throws you into the air and destroys you when you are least prepared for it. And, just as mysteriously, how – if you survive everything life has to throw at you – it then allows you to remake yourself and keep moving forward.

      • Health & Personal Development
        2020

        Early emotional education

        by Gloria Latorre

        The family is the first modeler of interpersonal relationships. In it all the richness of the emotional world unfolds. That is why it is key to teach our children from birth to build their own path to inner well-being, through self-knowledge and the skills to manage their emotions. This will help them from the beginning of their lives to connect with the other from empathy and compassion. “This book offers us a journey to recognize the emotions in our relationships. On each page, it offers us pauses to reflect, realize and experiment, allowing true learning. It is a companion for travelers such as parents, teachers, psychologists and for all of us who work in accompaniment ”. Jorge Genzone, President of the Gestalt Association of Buenos Aires

      • Children's & YA

        School Mayhem #1

        Adrian Makes a Big Bang

        by Hugo Tormenta, Clara Soriano

        drian, Blanca, Charlie, Daphne, Eric... No name starts with the same later, and each has a madcap story to tell. It's impossible to be bored in class 3-A, because the students come up with the most incredible adventures.   Adrian discovers a little hole beside his desk and starts stuffing into it all the papers and trash he can get his hands on. But the hole concentrates everything so much that it provokes a miniature Big Bang that turns the school inside out and brings even NASA out to investigate. Since it was forbidden to swear in class, Blanca invented a funny new expression... but a misunderstanding resulted in a war with the school across the street and separated the city with a wall.   Anything could happen before the bell rings!

      • 2017

        De synthèse / The Imago State

        by Karoline Georges

        A story of luminous lucidity, the kind that can free the consciousness and thrill the soul, De synthèse shines a light on the end of a filial relationship. It is told from the point of view of an image-obsessed woman reunited with her family just as her mother enters a terminal phase following a long period of suffering. It’s a story about the body, about disappearance, about reflections, about composition and decomposition. Winner of several literary awards. To learn more about this title, click here: https://editionsalto.com/droits-rights/de-synthese/

      • October 2013

        El silencio de los pájaros

        by Horacio Cavallo / Gonzalo Delgado

        Para salvar su vida, un hombre decide salvar la de los demás.Una solitaria mujer recibe las esperanzadoras cartas de un admirador secreto.Padre e hijo viajan al pasado con una caja de cenizas en las manos.Un músico ciego recorre a tientas un pequeño pueblo del interior.Un poeta ignoto le entrega el más valioso regalo al hombre que lo iluminó con sus palabras.Un grupo de niños planean un mágico rescate.Un abuelo, su nieto y un perro ven lo que el río devuelve a los hombres, mientras los pájaros callan. En los siete cuentos de este libro, Horacio Cavallo construye un mundo de particular sensibilidad gracias a la calidad sugestiva de su prosa. Las vidas de los personajes que habitan ese mundo son antiguas, vidas que han llegado a un punto en el que un solo gesto de bondad, de sencilla ternura, puede devolverles una parte de su fuerza original. Mucho tiempo después de que el lector haya abandonado estas páginas, esos personajes continuarán en su memoria, buscando nuevas oportunidades de redención, y, quizá, encontrándolas. Un nuevo relato se añade a los siete que conformaban la primera edición de este volumen. Se trata de «El sabor de la nieve», originalmente publicado en el libro colectivo Exposición múltiple (Alter Ediciones, 2015), un texto que, además de ser una prodigiosa muestra de técnica narrativa, alcanza una gran hondura emotiva y se ubica entre las mejores piezas breves del autor. El nuevo conjunto amplía así los márgenes de su universo simbólico y ofrece nuevas posibilidades de diálogos cruzados. Cabe señalar que luego de obtener el Premio Nacional de Narrativa Édita del Ministerio de Educación y Cultura en 2015, varios de los relatos de este libro han formado parte de antologías en diversas lenguas.

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