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AlFaris Publishing and Distribution Company
Established by Maher Kayyali (MBA) in 1989 as sister company to Arab Institute for Research & Publishing, Beirut est 1969. It enhanced the publishing scene in Jordan by publishing books for well known Arab writers such Mounis Razzaz Ibrahim Nasrallah Mureed Barghouthi Mohammad Shaheen and continues to publish and distribute different genres of Arabic and translated books.
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February 2008Roter April
Roman
by Santiago Roncagliolo, Angelica Ammar
Es ist Karwoche in Ayacucho, ein düsteres Spektakel von Blut und Exzeß. Als der stellvertretende Bezirksstaatsanwalt Félix Chacaltana, noch neu auf dem Posten in der Andenprovinz, mit seiner ersten Leiche konfrontiert wird, hofft er auf rasche Abwicklung. Erst aber muß er versuchen, mit den hiesigen Machtverhältnissen zurechtzukommen – der Militärkommandant jedenfalls gibt ihm deutlich genug zu verstehen, daß an einer Aufklärung des Falls hier niemand interessiert ist. Doch die Leiche ist so grausig verstümmelt, die Umstände ihres Auftauchens sind so dubios, daß Chacaltana, der an Gesetz und Ordnung glaubt und alles andere als ein Draufgänger ist, nicht anders kann, als weiterzuforschen. Was sind das für Spuren, die auf die Terrororganisation Leuchtender Pfad hinweisen? Und warum drückt ihm der Militärkommandant eine Dienstwaffe in die Hand? Schon bald hat Chacaltana alle Gewißheiten verloren und sieht sich unversehens selbst in einen Strudel aberwitziger Gewalt gezogen. Vor dem sehr realen Hintergrund der politischen und gesellschaftlichen Abgründe seines Landes erzählt der junge peruanische Autor einen temporeichen, psychologisch eindringlichen Thriller, wofür ihm sogleich die internationale Aufmerksamkeit zuteil wurde. Roter April erhielt den Alfaguara-Preis 2006 und wird in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzt.
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Art: general interest (Children's/YA)2013Tortugas en el espacio de papel (Paper's turtules in the space)
by Manuel Marín
In this book the artist makes an essay about the different shapes of the turtles by going around space and folding the paper. Eight turtle sculptures made of paper and created by Manuel Marín shows us by constructing step by space each piece the basics of concave or convex since they can be assembled either from outside or inside.
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Traditional stories (Children's/YA)2008Bestiario azteca (Aztec bestiary)
by Ianna Andréadis, Élisabeth Foch
Eagle, grasshopper, jaguar, butterfly, dog, monkey, feathered serpent, all these animals, real or mythological, tiny or majestic, carry a message. Forty works drawn with pen or brush have a dialogue with the texts of Elisabeth Foch, By taking us to a journey through the museums of Anthropology, the Templo Mayor in Mexico and the collections of the musée du quai Branly in Paris, this book takes us into the world of an ancient Mexico.
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Personal & social issues: bullying, violence & abuse (Children's/YA)2015Dientes (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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SELECTED SHORT STORIES
by Francisco Coloane
A selection of short stories made by Diego Zúñiga. A book that will be part of a collection including William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov, Julio Cortázar and Roberto Bolaño among others. These stories, from which both memory and fiction emerge, take us to the tough and inhospitable lands of The Great Chilean South, with heroic fights of men against a beautiful but cruel nature. “Coloane incorporated a series of stories and characters that did not exist in Chilean literature until before him. He invented a new landscape and inhabited it, as probably no one has ever done it again. […] It is enough to read the unpublished story that is included in this anthology, "Galope en la Patagonia", to confirm that no one ever retold the story of these characters and of that southern landscape with the same humanity as Coloane did. And maybe that's what makes his reading urgent”. From the foreword by Diego Zúñiga
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FictionMay 2018La novia gitana / 1
by Carmen Mola
THE GIPSY BRIDE / Inspector Elena Blanco has to raise every fold of the Gypsy Bride’s veil to get to the truth: who hated Susana so much, who hated her sister and her father? While working on the case she will have to deal with a dangerous murderer, a vengeance, the age-old religion and the revelation of some terrible facts about herself. “In Madrid there are not many murders committed”, deputy inspector Ángel Zárate’s old mentor in the police force used to say, “but when they happen, there is nothing the other cities can be envious of”, would add inspector Elena Blanco, the Head of the Case Analysis Brigade, a police department created for resolving the most complicated and most heinous crimes. Susana Macaya, a Gypsy girl, educated in a non-gypsy environment, disappears after her hen party. Nothing is known about her until two days later when her body turns up in the run-down Quinta de Vista Alegre park with its abandoned gardens in the district of Carabanchel. It might have been just another routine investigation, were it not for the fact that the victim was brutally tortured and that her sister Lara, also about to be married, also a young and beautiful Gypsy girl had been murdered in the same manner seven years before. Lara’s killer is serving a sentence in prison, so there are only two possibilities: it is either a copycat murder or an innocent person has been imprisoned. This is why the Head of Operations, inspector Rentero decides to take the case from young Zárate and give it to the experienced Elena Blanco. She is a peculiar character, a loner, a fan of grappa, of karaoke, of old Soviet cars and of romantic encounters in underground parking bays. A very special police officer who keeps working in the force because she must not forget that there is a case in her life she cannot close. To investigate implies getting to know people, revealing their secrets, their lack of consistency, their life. In the case of Lara and Susana it will be necessary to delve into the life of the Gypsies who have renounced their customs in order to integrate into the society as well as into the life of those who condemn such attitudes and do not forgive. It will also require acknowledging petty displays of racism they face every day…
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FictionMay 2019La red purpura / 2
by Carmen Mola
THE PURPLE NET/ The fight to finish off The Purple Net will push the Case Analysis Brigade to the limit and, in a way, it may even destroy the Brigade itself. A race during which Ángel Zárate will see Elena Blanco slowly breaking down because her son can be part of that horror. But what would not a mother do to save her child? A small townhouse in a residential neighborhood on the outskirts of Madrid. The last days of a hot summer. Alberto Robles has to force his daughter to get out of the pool while his wife, Soledad, is trying to get her teenage son, Daniel, to come down from his room and help her set the table for dinner. It could have been a night like so many others. But tonight, everything will fall into pieces. Inspector Elena Blanco, in charge of the Case Analysis Brigade (BAC), bursts into the house of Los Robles. Convinced of what she does, she goes straight to Daniel's room, followed by the rest of the agents. On the computer screen of the teenager there is the confirmation of what they feared: the boy is watching a live snuff show in which a girl is tortured by two hooded men. The efforts of the agents to try to locate the place from which it comes are unsuccessful. Helpless, they can only witness how the torture continues until the death of the girl whose name, in that moment, they are not even able to know. But she was not the first victim. How many have died at the hands of the Purple Web in similar shows? That is the conclusion reached by the Brigade agents after investigating the sinister organization with which they came into contact for the first time in the case of The Gypsy Bride. For months they have been collecting information about this group that traffics in videos of extreme violence on Deep Web, the hidden side of the Net. And during all this time, Elena Blanco has not told anybody what she has discovered: her son, Lucas, who disappeared when he was only a child, is perhaps a part of the Web. Perhaps he has become a monster. Could her son be one of the hooded men torturing that girl? Elena does not know if she will have the courage to face what she will discover. But, inevitably, the truth will be getting closer and closer. The video that they managed to intercept on Daniel's computer will serve the agents to gradually surround The Purple Web. However, the new findings will make them realize that this torture was only the tip of the iceberg. That the perversion of the human being can reacg the extremes never imagined.
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FictionMay 2020La Nena / 3
by Carmen Mola
THE GIRL / It is the end of the Chinese year and the Year of the Pig begins. Chesca has a date with Zarate but , in the very last moment, he stands her up. In spite of that she goes out to have a good time. She meets a man and spends the night with him. In the morning, she can see three men standing around the bed and waiting to get a share in the feast. And she can smell a disgusting odour of pigs. Not having heard from her for the whole day, her colleagues from BAC begin to look for Chesca. They will get invaluable help from Elena Blanco, who, although not a member of the police force any longer, will not turn her back on her friend.
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FictionJanuary 2020Progenie / 1
by Susana Martín Gijón
PROGENY / A bold police procedural that delves into one of the major themes of our times: a reflection on motherhood, and with it, on family models and on still existing social demands imposed on women. A captivating thriller and a powerful way of telling a story that is much more than just the plot and the characters but it also deals with the issue of artificial fertilization and genetic manipulation. Seville in the grip of a heat wave. Whoever can, dashes for the beach. But not Camino Vargas, the unexpectedly-appointed and temporary head of the homicide group since the shooting that left inspector Arenas in a coma. And neither do the criminals. Someone has deliberately run over a woman and fled. This fact will become the focus of media attention when a disturbing piece of information is leaked out: the murderer left a pacifier in the mouth of the victim before escaping. All the clues point to the ex-partner, a psychological abuser who made her life impossible. The statistics are not good: there have already been fifty fatal attacks of gender-based violence this year. However, when the autopsy reveals that the victim was pregnant, things will no longer be so clear. And when other murders begin to happen following the same modus operandi, the entire city will be shaken to the core. This forceful and rather troublesome inspector will have to handle the toughest case of her career, helped only by the few members of her team that remain in the city. In an exercise of literary maturity, the author reaches a perfect balance between the subject and a gripping and absorbing thriller in which the big unknown generates high tension in the whole city: has Seville become a dangerous place for women? Who and why is committing such brutal murders?
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FictionFebruary 2021Especie /2
by Susana Martín Gijón
SPECIES / Sevilla. The last days of summer. It is a peaceful time in the offices of the Judicial Police Brigade in Seville and the Homicide Team can relax after the latest surge in the numbers of deaths in the city. But it does not last long. One scorching morning Seville wakes up to three murders perpetrated in the streets, each one more wicked and scary. But the modus operandi is totally different in each of them and inspector Camino Vargas is completely perplexed . Only until she finds the connecting thread between them and then the case takes a most horrifying direction: the murderer imitates the methods of killing animals in the all-powerful meat industry. If in Progenie the underlying theme was maternity and the still prevailing social impositions for women, in Especie the authoress puts the spotlight on the world of industrial production farms and on the way we treat animals. Do we have the right to torture them from the moment they are born just for the pleasure of eating them? Is this what the murderer wants to tell us? Inspector Camino and her team, working against time, go to slaughterhouses, farms and animal sanctuaries while the whole country is terrified by the crimes committed in the Andalusian capital. A fast-paced novel with twists and turns where nothing will be as it seems.
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FictionLots Happened to Me After I Died
by Ricardo Adolfo
Brito is an illegal immigrant in a city he doesn’t know and whose language he doesn’t speak. On a Sunday afternoon, after doing some window shopping, he gets lost on his way home with his wife and their young son. And because he’s convinced that, in order to make the right choice, he must go against his better judgment, it becomes impossible for him to go back home. After a night out on the streets, Brito realizes that if he doesn’t ask for help, he might be lost for good, but if he does, he might shatter his dream of a new life. In a little over twenty-four hours, Lots Happened to Me After I Died explores what it’s like to live as an immigrant inside oneself — harder than any exile.
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General fiction (Children's/YA)2012The Girl Who Got Lost in Her Hair
by Andrés Kalawski, Andrea Ugarte
Lucia is a girl who gets easily angry. When she does, she covers her face with her beautiful long black hair. One day, she got very angry and did not find any better idea that proceed as usual. By the time she tried to get out from those multiple strands, she saw a light and walked towards it, thinking she would finally find the way out. But only when she got there, she discovered what was really hidden inside her hair… A journey into a girl who learns to overcome her own fears.
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FictionTongolele did not know how to dance
by Sergio Ramírez
Sergio Ramiréz’s returns to the noir genre with a novel about Nicaragua and the end of the Revolution's dream. We are in the middle of the twenty-first century, in a Nicaragua in the mist of popular revolts, which are being brutally repressed by the government, backed by the sinister executive arm of the head of the secret services. Inspector Dolores Morales must confront from a distance that terri-ble being dubbed Tongolele, ultimately responsible for his exile in Honduras, and who, with coldness and cynicism and partly thanks to the divinatory advice of his mother, pulls many a string of the country's deranged politics.Sergio Ramírez’s skillful prose gradually reveals a murky network, full of secrets, betrayals and dark maneuvers that Inspector Morales will have to face, backed by the ineffable Lord Dixon, Doña Sofía Smith and the rest of his associates. For, in that never-ending convulsive Nicaragua, any misstep might result in the ultimate demise of anyone who dares confront in any manner of way, no matter how petty it might appear, the powers that be.
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Blanca niña negra
by Angel M. Castillo de las Peñas
Tras la guerra civil de Mozambique, vivir en la aldea supondrá morir de hambre.Y de miedo.Isolda es una niña albina que lucha por sobrevivir en un mundo hostil. En zonas de África, se cree que el cuerpo albino tiene propiedades mágicas y usan sus extremidades para ciertos rituales.Un hecho fortuito hará que escape junto a su abuela Bibibá a Lisboa. Allí, lejos de los cazadores de albinos, y a caballo entre su trabajo en la sombrerería del señor Loureiro y su proyecto final de carrera, buscará a su padre que escapó de Mozambique para forjar un futuro mejor.Una trama de muertes accidentales y de asesinatos en el corazón de Bairro Alto y un cúmulo de casualidades harán que Isolda se reencuentre con su pasado. Un pasado lleno de vacíos y silencios.Blanca niña negra es una historia sorprendente en la que Ángel M. Castillo conmueve con sus frases, tan llenas de poesía y sufrimientos. Nos descubre la cultura africana y sus tradiciones mágicas, la melancolía y belleza de Lisboa y la importancia que tiene la casualidad en nuestras vidas.Una historia para leerla desde el corazón.
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Gaijin
by Maximiliano Matayoshi
Gaijin, which means “foreigner” in Japanese, is a production happily devoted to discovering the world and fascinations of others. Written in the great nikkei style, due to its ennunciative austerity and restraint, it proposes a message of permanence that hovers like an alarm over the empire of the fleeting, of emptiness and helplessness.With this novel, winner of the UNAM-Alfaguara prize in 2002, Maximiliano Matayoshi manages to move us, while kindly revealing the condition of the immigrant, of great relevance in all cultures and in all times. “Epic of the migrant and the ones who, living between two worlds, look for an identity, Gaijin is one of those novels you read with a tight heart and a smile upon the lips. A beautiful book, that once finished will be remembered with love for a long, long time”.Federico Falco
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FictionLa Forastera
by Olga Merino
A contemporary western set in the rugged, unforgiving territory ofrural Spain. A thrilling story about human resilience. For the locals, Angie is the village crazy lady. She lives isolated and alone in the country, surrounded by ghosts who torment her with childhood memories of a poor working-class neighbourhood in Barcelona and a passionate love affair in her youth with an artist from London. One morning, Angie discovers the lifeless body of the local landowner hanging from the branch of a walnut tree. This news endangers her own land and the future of the entire village. In her struggle to keep what’s hers, Angie uncovers a series of secrets deeply buried in that land. This leads to a liberating realisation: once you lose everything, they can’t take anything away from you. And then you’re invincible.
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FictionThe Summer of the Serpent
by Cecilia Eudave
This novel is made of stories with different perspectives that make and shape each of the characters. We attend the decisive moment in the life of a family going through a summer that glides in an unsettling manner, revealing the secrets that each of them keeps. Secrets that confront them and force them to grow. To each chapter we add clues to complete an existential puzzle, where each one has his or her fraction of guilt and innocence. All taken from imagination of certainties of two girls who begin to discover the world from fantasy. At a travelling fair, Maricarmen, the eldest of two sisters, has her fortune read by a serpent-woman; the resulting prophecy is both cryptic and frightening. From that point onwards, the sisters’ lives, and the lives of those close to them, start circling around a real-life boa who lurks around their neighbourhood, and the haunting apparition of a woman.
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FictionJune 2020Ava in the Night
by Manuel Vicent
The Franco regime, cinema and Hollywood glamour all combine in an explosive mix where fiction and reality intermingle in a story set against the backdrop of Spain’s recent history. A young man leaves his hometown and family and heads to Madrid to fulfil his dream of becoming a film director. After arriving in the capital, he heads to the School of Cinema, intent on passing the admission tests which include, in addition to an exam, the creation of a screenplay. This will be his gateway to a glittering universe, full of light and glamour, extraordinarily free. Because in 1950s Francoist Spain, beneath the black, sad and repressive veneer of the toughest years of the dictatorship, there lay a whole new world of art, cinema and literature where the joys of life could be enjoyed under the cover of nightfall.
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FictionMay 2021Simpatía
by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón
Proof of the chaos and misery that plague Caracas are the hordes of dogs that roam the streets, abandoned by the millions of Venezuelans who flee the country. That’s why Ulises, who’s flat broke and teaches in a modest cinema workshop, agrees to create a foundation to rescue dogs in need. Ulises is unwittingly dragged into an odyssey of family entanglements, dangers that have him doubting the people around him—where suddenly no one is what they seem—and mysteries surrounding the most famous, patriotic dogs in Venezuela. With a masterful hand and refined sense of humour, Rodrigo Blanco has produced a mystery, not without parodic elements, packed with references to cinema, literature, and dogs. Simpatía is like a tragicomic fresco, sometimes grotesque, of Venezuela today. There’s an ironic, irreverent take on some of the country’s most mythical figures, from Simón Bolívar to Hugo Chávez, and a sharp, hilarious reflection on inheritance and identity.
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FictionAugust 2020La Buena Suerte
by Rosa Montero
A moving story of love and atonement. Wakefield meets The Accidental Tourist in the depths of rural Spain.Text:Looking out of the window of a train during a brief stop at the station of a god-forsaken town in the middle of nowhere, run-down and absolutely ugly, a passenger notices a sign advertising a flat for sale. Pablo, 54, a prestigious architect from Madrid who is traveling to give a conference, decides that this hellhole is a good place to abandon himself to the pain that is eating him away. Without a second thought, Pablo leaves the train – and his previous life – and pays for the apartment in cash, a pigsty he settles into with just the basics, without informing his friends or his employees and with the sole purpose of disappearing.His plans do not include meeting a woman as alien to his world as Raluca, a supermarket cashier and painter who loves kitsch artwork, and who is indestructible, despite how badly she has been treated by life. In her, Pablo will find the strength to start from scratch – as a supermarket shelf filler – and learn to face up to a family past cut short by evil in its purest expression.
