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      • Kia Persia Literary Agency

        KIA Literary Agency was founded in 2002 in Tehran with the aim of promoting and supporting fine literary works in all forms throughout the world. It brings about opportunities for authors, illustrators, publishers, translators, and those involved in this field to meet their counterparts. And at the same time, it introduces them to the world and will inform them of all the related events which take place in the world of art and literature.

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        Individual film directors, film-makers
        March 2015

        The three amigos

        The transnational filmmaking of Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Alfonso Cuarón

        by Deborah Shaw

        Now available in paperback, this is the first academic book dedicated to the filmmaking of the three-best known Mexican-born directors, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu and Alfonso Cuarón. Deborah Shaw examines the career trajectories of the directors and presents a detailed analysis of their most significant films with a focus on both the texts and the production contexts in which they were made. These include studies on del Toro's Cronos/Chronos, El laberinto del fauno/Pan's Labyrinth, and Hellboy II: The Golden Army; Iñárritu's Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel; and Cuarón's Sólo con tu pareja/Love in the Time of Hysteria, Y tu mamá también, and Children of Men. The Three Amigos will be of interest to all those who study Hispanic and Spanish cinema in particular, and world and contemporary cinema in general.

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        LA POLÍTICA DEL ODIO

        by HUGO N. GERSTL

        LA POLÍTICA DEL ODIO  – Una aguda y reveladora visión de la política norteamericana    De cómo obstruccionistas, medios de comunicación e intereses creados están convirtiendo a los Estados Unidos en un país del tercer mundo y CÓMO PODEMOS RECUPERARNOS    por HUGO N. GERSTL Los Estados Unidos están siendo destruidos de manera sistemática, no desde afuera por terroristas, sino desde adentro, por intereses creados. El país está siendo destruido por políticos, por presentadores de programa de entrevistas, magnates mediáticos y demagogos populistas, que procuran conservar su «territorio» a cualquier precio, obstruyendo la aprobación de leyes provechosas, mediante mentiras y acusaciones escandalosas, campañas negativas y agravios injustificados. Estos «redentores» no presentan ninguna idea constructiva que hayan concebido para ayudar a salir del atolladero en el que nuestro país se encuentra. En lo único que piensan los políticos es en ser electos y reelectos. El señuelo de USD 100.000 de honorarios de conferencista es un potente afrodisíaco. El señuelo del poder es un afrodisíaco aún más potente. Políticos, metemiedos, parlanchines y líderes empresariales se deleitan con su fama, su gloria y su autoproclamada sabiduría, en momentos en que el país está más endeudado que cualquier otra nación en la historia y cuando año a año avanzamos cada vez más rápido hacia la posibilidad de convertirnos en un país del tercer mundo. Si el público comienza a sumar dos más dos, la respuesta lógica debe ser cuatro. Pero hasta ahora, aún se puede hacer creer al estadounidense promedio que dos más dos equivale a cualquier número que a los maestros del rollo político se les ocurra. Lo peor es que más del 40% de los estadounidenses aceptan la política de miedo, cizaña y atropello, sin siquiera detenerse un momento a pensar qué es exactamente lo que estos traficantes del odio político ofrecen a cambio de echar a un lado a una facción y asegurarse para ellos mismos las ventajas del poder. Pero independientemente de las querellas políticas internas o externas, lo que hacemos es algo parecido a dos pulgas que se pelean para saber cuál de ellas es la propietaria del perro. Parece que no nos damos cuenta de que el tiempo y el dinero se nos han acabado, que ya no podemos permitirnos el lujo de astutas maniobras políticas y de inútiles y estúpidas reyertas. Aunque este oportuno libro señala a quién es el culpable, va también un poco más allá y cuenta cómo los Estados Unidos, la nación más poderosa del planeta, pueden recuperar el control de su destino y curar su propia enfermedad.    HUGO N. GERSTL obtuvo una licenciatura en ciencias políticas e historia de la Universidad de California en Los Ángeles (UCLA) y después cursó estudios y se graduó en la Facultad de Derecho de la misma universidad. Gerstl rechazó una invitación para postularse para el Congreso por el partido Republicano, ya que eso hubiera significado competir con su amigo y colega, el abogado León Panetta, que acababa de completar su primera cadencia en el Congreso. Gerstl es ampliamente conocido en todo el país hace ya cuarenta y seis años como abogado penalista y sigue siendo eternamente optimista acerca de la capacidad de recuperación del pueblo estadounidense.

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        Personal & social issues: bullying, violence & abuse (Children's/YA)
        2015

        Dientes (Teeth)

        by Antonio Ortuño, Flavia Zorrrilla Dragol

        After the accidental loss of a baby tooth, Natalia recounts the girl´s questions, what happens at home with her mother and her bunny Paz, with her father and his books, how she comes to find the skull and skeleton, and about Hugo, the big kid at school. It starts as something as small as a baby tooth and turns into something as large as the human body, the world... and the solution to what seems like child´s game, turns to be what matters the most.

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        Animal stories (Children's/YA)
        October 2019

        Aullido

        by Adolfo Córdova, Armando Fonseca

        Do you hear the wolves howling underneath the ground?  They are buried waiting to be invoked by mother wolf, grandmother wolf and sister wolf. Only then, from the deepest side of the earth, they will rise. From a great explosion they will then be acknowledged as what they are: wolves, corn, wolf opossum, human wolves.

      • September 2021

        Hombre Perro: Churre y castigo (Dog Man: Grime and Punishment)

        by Dav Pilkey, Dav Pilkey

        ¡Hombre Perro ha metido la pata hasta el fondo esta vez! Tiene que entregar su placa y vaciar el escritorio, pero si bien no tiene trabajo aún le quedan esperanzas. Con sus amigos de su lado, ¿podrá Hombre Perro salir del hoyo y regresar gateando al cuerpo policial?Dog Man's really done it this time! He hands over his badge and clears out his desk, but while he may be out of a job, he's not yet out of hope. With his friends at his side, can Dog Man dig himself out of this hole and paw his way back onto the force?

      • Children's & YA
        December 2020

        El día favorito de Moka

        by María Castro, Sonia Negrete

        “Moka’s favourite day”, who has never been caught once looking out of the class window, distracted when they were younger? Our Candela, sat at her desk, and somewhat bored with school routine, tells us which day is Moka’s favourite, “and then”, all of a sudden, everything is possible, even ending up that day playing at the beach with Moka, Antonio, the mailman, the old man that was sitting on the bench looking bored and with everyone else who is willing to take part in this extraordinary story. “El día favorito de Moka” , ¿a quién no lo han pillado alguna vez cuando era pequeño mirando distraído en clase por la ventana? Nuestra Candela, sentada en su pupitre, y algo aburrida con las rutinas del colegio, nos cuenta cuál es el día favorito de Moka, “y entonces”, de pronto, todo se hace posible, incluso terminar ese día jugando en la playa con Moka, con Antonio, con el cartero, con el anciano que estaba aburrido sentado en un banco y con todo aquel que esté dispuesto a participar de lo extraordinario.

      • Children's & YA
        November 2019

        El perro de Milu

        by Mariann Máray

        The winning entry of the 12th International ‘Compostela” Prize for Illustrated Books is a tale of friendship, freedom, and animal rights, set against a spectacularly coloured background.

      • Children's & YA
        April 2019

        El baño de Moka

        by María Castro, Sonia Negrete

        Moka, our main character belongs to the same breed of loyal water dogs who, throughout the centuries, have accompanied fishermen on their ships, retrieving fallen ropes, all sorts o different fish, untangling nets, sending messages from one boat to another, saving shipwreck survivors…Our Moka doesn’t accompany a fisherman but she is the best at finding lost things, stopping balls, swimming in muddy puddles, giving hugs, licking faces, accomplishing dreams and many other things that we will find out alongside her in this series of seven books. Moka, nuestra protagonista, es hermana de raza de todos esos fieles perros de aguas que durante siglos han acompañado a los pescadores de nuestras costas en sus barcos para recoger cabos caídos, recuperar peces, desenganchar redes, enviar mensajes de una embarcación a otra, salvar náufragos…Nuestra Moka no acompaña a ningún pescador. Pero es la mejor encontrando cosas perdidas, parando pelotas, rebozándose en los charcos, dejándose abrazar, chupando caras, cumpliendo sueños y muchas cosas más que poco a poco descubriremos en estas historias de Moka, esa traviesa perrita de aguas color marrón, protagonista principal de esta serie de siete cuentos que hoy empiezan a ver la luz.

      • 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.

      • Children's & YA

        Siwar, the Guardian Jaguar

        by Falcón Maldonado, Cristina

        A stray dog goes to the park to play and share stories with other dogs, which have different lives than its own. Sometimes these are tempting, but he prefers his freedom. One day, a particular being comes out from its shadow: Siwar, a guardian jaguar that soon will become a dear friend for the dog. After long conversations under the light of luminous bones, Siwar will give the protagonist a mission: become the new partner of Sisa, a girl who recently lost a very special friend…

      • Children's & YA
        January 2023

        Los Mil y un Dias

        Cuentos Juveniles Cortos

        by Ann A Guerra/Author,Daniel Guerra/Co-Author, Art of Winning Rock, Inc.

        This book contains a compilation of 12 juvenile shorts stories.  Is stories made from different parts of the world. Different races and culture.  Moral, cultural, values and adventures.

      • Children's & YA
        April 2021

        Savages

        by Antonio Ramos Revillas

        Efraín’s life —complicated and with shortcomings— continues impassive, until one day his Mum is violently taken by the police. He and his brothers, Fredy and Marcos, will have to look for all the ways to release her from a cruel system that labels and discriminates them. To build a future for their family, they will have to be cautious of asking help from the wrong people, as any false step could entangle them with the cartels of his neighborhood.

      • Children's & YA
        February 2017

        Hoy es miércoles

        Children whose future has been stolen have only their imagination

        by Patricio Nouveau

        An unknown adult unexpectedly turns up in the lives of Gilmar and Lanh at the same time but in different parts of the world. Gilmar lives in Bolivia and his father works in the old silver miines of Cerro Rico in the city of Potosí; Lanh is an orphan, she was taken in by the Thuy Xuân orphanage in Vietnam after her parents died when the Perfume River flooded. From their native cities, accompanied by the strange adult, they each undertake a journey that will lead them to Sas, a child soldier who, tries to escape during the Sierra Leone civil war to find his family, return to his former life and set out on a new future. The journey brings together three points on the planet, three languages and three cultures whose only relationship is a book whose photographs have disappeared since Sas was kidnapped from his school. The three boys are eleven years old. They are searching for each other, they need to find each other.

      • July 2022

        La vuelta al perro

        by Cynthia Rimsky

        In a small town in Buenos Aires province, surrounded by soy fields, weekend homes that multiply like books, and weeds with healing powers that could feed the whole world, the writer goes out to walk her dog, fed up with how everything around her has productive meaning. Is it possible to write against meaning?  She walks around and finds the men meeting behind a house beneath the biggest false pepper tree in town, telling stories among the scattered junk as if they were in the Pampas version of a literary salon. She watches the hares, takes her motorcycle to buy eggs, chats with her neighbor, and comes up with questions that may bring her closer to glimpsing the sacred.

      • Literary Fiction
        May 2021

        Outside of time

        by Silvia Bardelás

        "Destiempo is a song to the fight for internal revolutions and the desire to free ourselves from the vital ropes that bind us." - Armando Requeixo. Diario cultural. Radio Galega   Destiempo illuminates the we as the truly human space. An older woman asks her grandson to come back to Galicia from the United States to spend the summer with her. She wants him to attend a kind of social fight that she is carrying out with her friends. They look for action as the only thing that can give meaning to their lives. Silvia Bardelás mixes different generations that share the same problem: the weight of a standardized world, full of discourses, oblivious to vitality. The possibility of feeling alive and real again makes everything move in an unstoppable way. The story is a coming and going of past and present, of ideas and actions that reveal the silent social power and the inner need to feel free. Destiempo (Outside of time) is a community novel. Beyond individuality, beyond the group is the we, which can only emerge genuinely when individuals become singular beings, when they become aware of the myths, the ideology, the discourses that have dominated their lives and those of their ancestors.   The narrator puts the focus on the interrelation. He lights up scenes where the characters discover themselves through others.

      • Personal & social issues: bullying, violence & abuse (Children's/YA)
        2018

        Agustina's Way

        by Cecilia Curbelo

        Agustina has a strong character and a great weakness: her sister Renata, whom she has noticed is weird. Even though Agus secretly listens to conversations, she still doesn’t know what’s happening. What she does know is that she loves her dog Hakuna (who she shares with her best friend Maxi), that her father is sad, that her grandfather needs more care and that her sister’s boyfriend Lalo is fed up. When the truth comes into the light she’ll want to solve things in her own way. In Agustina’s way!

      • Fiction
        April 2021

        Hosts

        by Julio Botella

        A book delves into the psychology of victims of child abuse and bullying, in their childhood and in the development of their personality in the future.   A host (un huésped) is also a plant or animal in whose body a parasite is housed. Julio Botella brings this idea to the plane of family psychology. In a family, what is not spoken about, not understood, born from some dark circumstance, creates a broken personality that unconsciously ends up staying in a new member. That is the invisible family heritage that these stories show.   Huéspedes (Hosts) is a book of stories that subtly intersect. The characters go through them coiled in their personality, unaware that they are hosts and transmitters.   The narrator is a conscious voice of this heritage and his writing becomes a kind of exorcism. He takes the reader deep into the characters through very powerful scenes where they face their fears. A father who transfers his frustration to an insecure daughter. Another father with fear of death who takes out his anger in the relationship with the family dog. A child who suffers harassment because he is not recognized by parents who expect something else from him, his own redemption. A grandmother who abducts a granddaughter with her childhood story to feel like an artist again. And all of them tacitly related.   Huéspedes returns to Spanish literature a realism that seeks to unmask social errors that are repeated over time.

      • Personal & social issues: disability & special needs (Children's/YA)
        October 2015

        Yo quiero ser como Joe Palomitas

        Una historia real que promueva la inclusión y la autodeterminación

        by Jo Meserve Mach, Vera Lynne Stroup-Rentier, Mary Birdsell, Karen Diaz Anchante

        Dylan tiene un amigo estupendo. Su amigo Joe Palomitas hace y vende palomitas de maíz. Joe Palomitas tiene un trabajo muy divertido. ¡Es una diversión ruidosa! Dylan aprende de Joe Palomitas cómo hacer un trabajo que le encante. Dylan has Down Syndrome. His friend, Poppin' Joe has Down Syndrome and Autism.

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