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      • Grupo Planeta

        Grupo Planeta is Spain’s leading family-owned publishing and media group and it boasts an extensive product offering at the service of culture, learning, news and audiovisual entertainment. In the years since Editorial Planeta was founded in Barcelona by José Manuel Lara Hernández, in 1949, the Group has become a multinational enterprise. It combines a solid business tradition with its capacity for innovation and its European and international vocation, with an especially prominent presence in Spain, France, Portugal and Latin America.

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      • DeA Planeta Libri S.r.l.

        DeA Planeta Libri’s products include books for children (fairy tales, boardbooks, novelties, non fiction, ativity etc.),  MG& YA fiction, non ficton and  essays and it operates with the brands DeA, De Agostini, DeA Planeta, UTET, AMZ, Abracadabra. Our foreign righst catalogues are available on: https://www.deaplanetalibri.it/aiuto/foreign-rights

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      • Trusted Partner
        September 2000

        Küß mich, du Idiot

        Roman

        by Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Matthias Strobel

        Alfredo Bryce Echenique wurde am 19. Februar 1939 in Lima als Sproß einer peruanisch-englischen Familie geboren. Ab 1957 studierte er in Lima an der Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos gleichzeitig Jura und Literaturwissenschaften. 1963 erlangte er seinen Titel als Anwalt und schloß 1964 sein literaturwissenschaftliches Studium mit einer Arbeit über Hemingway ab. Noch im selben Jahr reiste Bryce Echenique nach Paris, wo er an der Sorbonne neben Diplomen in klassischer und moderner französischer Literatur auch eine Doktorarbeit begann. Neben seiner Lehrtätigkeit an verschiedenen Universitäten Frankreichs, darunter Nanterre und Montpellier, war er ab 1975 auch für das »Suplemento Cultural« der mexikanischen Tageszeitung »El Sol« journalistisch aktiv. 1984 zog er nach Madrid, um dort als freier Schriftsteller zu leben und zu arbeiten. Erst 1999 kehrte er ins heimatliche Lima zurück. Gleich mit seinem ersten Roman, Un mundo para Julius, (1970), erlangte er großes Auf- und Ansehen; der Roman wurde in 10 Sprachen übersetzt und ist längst ein lateinamerikanischer Klassiker. Bryce Echenique hat seitdem an die zwanzig Bücher veröffentlicht: Romane, Erzählungen, Autobiographisches, Artikelsammlungen. In der spanischsprachigen Welt gehört er zu den bekanntesten und angesehensten lateinamerikanischen Autoren. 2002 erhielt er für "Küss mich, Du Idiot" den renommierten italienischen Premio Grinzane Cavour. 2002 Auszeichnung mit dem Planeta-Preis. Matthias Strobel, geboren 1967, ist seit 1999 als freier Übersetzer für spanischsprachige Literatur und seit 2005 auch als Agent für lateinamerikanische Autoren tätig.

      • Trusted Partner
        September 2021

        Ponto de Ruptura

        by Olufunke Ogundimu

        Olufunke Ogundimu explora neste potente conto a sua escrita afrofuturista, num 2087 aterradoramente próximo, quando tudo muda, menos a barreira entre quem tem e quem não tem. Onde os pobres ficaram do lado fora de onde é fácil negar a realidade, num mundo distorcido de quem acredita que mudança climática é fake news. Até o planeta terra atingir o ponto de ruptura e mover as areias dos grandes desertos arrasando fronteiras nacionais, cidades, assoreando rios e oceanos impondo novas formas de viver aos humanos.

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        Picture books, activity books & early learning material

        El espacio entre la hierba

        by María José Ferrada, Andrés López

        This book object, composed of 30 cards, invites the reader to stop in the poetry that surrounds us.

      • Trusted Partner
        Horror & ghost stories, chillers (Children's/YA)
        October 2021

        El año de la rata

        by Jorge Alderete

        Our forests are shrinking every year due to fires forestry. Trees and all life that inhabits them, from tiny microorganisms to families of birds and animals are destroyed by flames that in most cases, are caused by we, humans.

      • Food & Drink
        March 2019

        Mother's Cooking

        by Joan Roca

        A book bringing together typical homemade cuisine with eighty simple recipes for everyone to make at home. Mother’s cooking, traditional cooking, brought up to date, but keeping its ties to the very deeply rooted need to recover and perpetuate the most authentic dishes loved by everyday people. Uncomplicated, non-technical recipes, but with Joan Roca’s special touch. The book contains three types of recipes: our mother’s dishes, the ones we’ve known our whole lives; adaptations for modern palates, with less fat or sugar; others that represent the evolution of traditional recipes with modernized flavors. The book is structured with the classic organization of recipes: starters, fish, meat, eggs, vegetables, sweets. And it will give a brief introduction to basic techniques, with clear, uncomplicated explanations. An homage to all our mothers’ cooking.

      • Children's & YA

        NJAMBA NENE AND THE FLYING BUS

        by Ngügï wa Thiong’o / Illustrations: Antonia Lara

        Ngügi wa Thiong’o (Kenya 1938) is one of today’s leading African writers and has been nominated for the Nobel Prize several times. The story originally aimed to reconnect African children with their language, knowledge and history, in a continent marked by colonialist rule that largely erased their culture. In this sense, its main theme of rescuing the traditional knowledge of dominated cultures, especially their connection with nature, makes this book contain a universal message that goes beyond time and frontiers. In these times of deep social changes this story acquires maximum relevance for the world of children and youth. Njamba Nene and the Flying Bus, originally written in gikuyu and translated into English in 1986, has been specially translated and illustrated for this edition of Planeta Sostenible.

      • October 2022

        Frida's Cook

        by Florencia Etcheves

        Mexico, 1939. Nayeli Cruz is fourteen years old and is facing the same fate as her older sister: being married off to a man she does not know. Like so many women, she has no choice but to leave her home in Tehuantepec for Mexico City, and forge her own path. There she will meet the painter Frida Kahlo and will become not only her cook, but also her right-hand woman.  Argentina, 2018. Paloma’s -Nayeli’s granddaughter- discovers that there is a part of her past her grandmother knows nothing about. When she inherits a painting worth millions of dollars, she suddenly finds her life in danger as a group of swindlers try to steal it. What’s more, one of the criminals appears to be the man she loves.   Strong Women  Nayeli’s story unfolds in a time when women were not taken seriously – when they could not make decisions about their own lives. But the female characters in this tale have drive, and a rebellious nature, allowing them to escape the fate of many.    Emotion and Mystery  A journey full of twists and revelations that brings together the past and the present. As Nayeli’s story unfolds, Paloma’s discoveries are explained, and Paloma herself must fight to stay alive.     A Synergy Between Fact and Fiction  Historical and fictitious events come together to create a unique, captivating narrative. Frida Kahlo’s real experiences are presented through the eyes of Nayeli, who, although she never actually existed, represents many similar women from that era.

      • February 2023

        The Third World Cup

        by Alejandro Wall and Gastón Edul

        In April 2022, soccer fans worldwide finally found out which teams would be in Group C of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar: Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Poland, and Mexico. One month before Argentina’s first game, the team’s situation was critical: some players were injured, others had not played for a long time, and a third group was not performing well with the international teams where they regularly played. Even worse, Lionel Messi injured his ankle the Saturday before Argentina’s first World Cup game.   Argentina started on the wrong foot. On November 22nd, they lost their first match to Saudi Arabia but four days later Argentina scored two goals against Mexico and repeated their success against Poland in the last soccer match of their group. Argentine soccer fans and fans around the world thought that this team will be eliminated as easily as it had been in the 2022 World Cup in Korea and Japan, but it fought back. Their players fought to prove that they were not the ‘dark horse’ of the competition.  Three more matches were enough to take Argentina to the final game on December 18th, 2022: first, a victory against Australia; then a tie against the Netherlands (broken later with a set of penalties), and finally a victory against Croatia.   This is the difficult road taken by the Argentinean national team which waited 36 years to win the World Cup. Every kick, every goal, and every penalty was another step to ultimate victory in the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

      • February 2023

        The Middle Sister

        by Fabiola Hablützel

        In March 2017, Fabiola is about to celebrate her 50th birthday and the 27th anniversary of her marriage to Alfredo. To make her joy complete for these special occasions, her beloved aunt Nélida returns from the United States to visit her sister, Fabiola's mother, and participate in her niece‘s celebrations. Shortly before, Fabiola’s mother is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, which affects her ability to speak. She cannot complete most of her sentences, so her daughter, husband, and other relatives help her to express herself.  The three women go to a swimming pool and have a delicious lunch on a sunny afternoon. Afterward, Fabiola’s mother wants to chat with her daughter and sister. Thanks to the signs and sounds made by her mother, Fabiola discovers that she was adopted after her mother had a miscarriage. The desperate daughter immediately visits another aunt and asks her for more details about her adoption: indeed, Fabiola and Luis (the protagonist’s adoptive parents) were visited by a Chilean social worker who helped the couple with all the official paperwork to adopt a Chilean baby girl.  Fabiola wants to find out more about her biological family in Chile: she knows only that she has a Chilean step-sister and the possible name of her birth mother: Elena. What family secrets will she discover and how will they affect Fabiola’s relationship with her adoptive mother?

      • Fiction

        TALION

        by Santiago Díaz

        Marta Aguilera, a journalist committed to her job, receives news that will change her destiny: a tumor threatens her health and she has barely two months to live. With nothing to lose or anyone to answer, Marta feels that reality is a threatening place and decides to occupy the time that is left to impart justice. In a race against time for her own life and against the unbreakable inspector Daniela Gutiérrez, Marta Aguilera will try to apply her particular law of talion. A shocking thriller, different from all the others. A novel that you will read as if you were the main character.

      • Fiction
        February 2020

        El último verano de Silvia Blanch

        by Lorena Franco

        THE LAST SUMMER OF SILVIA BLANCH / A forbidden love always entails lying. A crime always leaves traces. The last person to see Silvia Blanch – disappeared without trace in the summer of 2017 – is now dead.  Alex, a young journalist is sent for a weekend to a village in the Montseny mountains where Silvia lived, to talk with her family and to write a commemorative article a year after the disappearance. She becomes so involved in the case that she decides to spend the summer in the village to find out really what happened. However, she realizes soon enough that her presence annoys the inhabitants of the village, especially Silvia’s cousin, Jan, with whom she falls in love despite the disturbing secrets he hides.

      • Fiction
        February 2021

        Todos buscan a Nora Roy

        by Lorena Franco

        EVERYBODY IS LOOKING FOR NORA ROY / Nobody knows what drove Nora Roy, a young patient in theVera de la Cruz psychiatric centre, to kill a renownedpsychiatrist, Gabriel Herranz, and the nurse, Ana Torrents.Nobody can understand how she was able to lock them inthe basement, kill them and disappear unnoticed.When throughout Spain a search for Nora is carried out,Eva, a funeral make-up artist who escapes the reality bysubmerging herself in fiction, puts up in her flat Charlotte, astrange and rather guarded Parisian. One evening, Evameets Adrián, the man of her dreams, in a discotheque andends up hoping for a promising night at her flat. But in themorning Adrián is gone and the walls of the room whereCharlotte stayed are covered with blood. Charlotte hasdisappeared too.

      • Educational: English language: readers & reading schemes

        Potworna Planeta

        Monster Planet

        by David Orme

      • Graphic novels
        September 2018

        The Violet

        by Juan Sepúlveda / Antonio Mercero / Marina Cochet

        Valencia, 1955. Bruno falls into a trap set by the police at the Ruzafa cinema to arrest homosexuals under the law of social danger. His entry into prison at the age of eighteen, and the pressure of his family, will force him to make decisions that will mark the rest of his life. The violet is a graphic novel about the persecution suffered by homosexuals during Franco's regime in Spain, and the coexistence of the women who married them. A story that brings to light the concentration camps for homosexuals that the regime created and that historically are being forgotten. It is a unique and self-concluding work. Marina was nominated as the best Spanish cartoonist in the Heroes Comic Con Valencia 2019 for this work. Antonio Santos Mercero, one of the two writers of the graphic novel EL VIOLETA, has won on Friday, October 15, the Planeta 2021 Award for the novel LA BESTIA, co-written with two other writers (Jorge Díaz and Agustín Martínez) under the pseudonym Carmen Mola. The Planeta 2021 Prize was presented by King Felipe VI to the winners and is endowed with 1 million euros. It is currently the literary prize with the largest financial endowment in the world, above the Nobel Prize for Literature. Antonio Santos Mercero is the author of four other novels: El final del hombre, La cuarta muerte, La vida desatenta and El caso de las japonesas muertas. He is also the scriptwriter of television series such as Hospital Central, Lobos and MIR. This title is one of the few selected by the ICEX panel of experts for the U.S. and Brazilian markets. New Spanish Books is a project of the Spanish Foreign Trade Institute ICEX in cooperation with the Spanish publishers' association FGEE. It is intended to make it easier for publishers from the world to gain access to new books from Spain and to help them decide which titles are worth translating. See www.newspanishbooks.us and www.newspanishbooks.br.com

      • Fiction

        Hell in Paradise

        by Clara Sánchez

        In this new novel, Clara Sánchez creates an exciting plot about the disappearance of a Saudi princess locked in her golden cage. The luxurious atmosphere of the Costa del Sol and its darker reality stand out in this addictive intrigue with great female characters.Fate can bring about unexpected places and incredible experiences. Even open the doors to a world of great masked luxuries. Sonia Torres, who makes a living as a waitress in a Madrid burger, will for a time replace her friend Karen, who works in a hotel in Marbella. The young woman will spend the summer working as a waitress at the Beach Club, one of the best-known and most elite establishments in the Andalusian city, with a large presence of sheikhs and personalities from the Middle East. Marbella awaits the visit of King Fadel of Saudi Arabia and the more than a thousand people which make up his entourage, including his wives Sultana and Amina.The arrival of the monarch represents a shower of millions for the city and the Beach Club is fortunate to be the hotel that will host many of the evenings bankrolled by the royalty.The waitress will be involved in a strange and harrowing plot that will lead to the disappearance of the princess. Sonia will discover the harsh reality that hides behind so much opulence and beauty.

      • Thriller / suspense
        June 2012

        Tinton Arms Murder

        by Barbara Cook

        DCI Bev Smith is enjoying a rare Sunday off with her family and friends in the garden of her home. Her peace of mind is soon shattered by a call from DS Jones advising her of a domestic incident that doesn’t seem to add up. Not long after that she is called to her local Gastro Pub to investigate a body that has been found outside. What appears to be a run of the mill mugging takes a different shape when the victim is found to be an ex Commander of Police who worked in the Met then in retirement went overseas in an advisory capacity to several third world governments. Much time is spent researching the victim’s time overseas, but Bev is certain that the answer to the mystery will be found locally. With her squad Bev goes about investigating the murder in her normal fashion. Unfortunately it soon becomes apparent that she will have help, in the form of Government Security Officers from London. Soon the investigation hits a stone wall as the victim appears to have led an exemplary lifestyle and there seems no apparent reason for his murder. Whilst the investigation is on-going several different facts are discovered about the domestic incident which have a very personal effect on Bev. Finally the crimes are solved, but there is to be little satisfaction for Bev.

      • Children's & YA

        The Secret of Cats

        by Marcelo Simonetti

        The poet was looking for a place to leave his words, A place where the wind won’t carry them away, A place where monsters won’t eat them.   If the cats are lovers of the moon, the night and roofs, they would know how to appreciate a verse, the poet thought. And almost whispering he told them: “This is how happiness was like: brief as the dream of a felt acacia, or the dance of the crazy single woman in front of a broken mirror”. This book talks about the importance that poetry has in our lives and, at the same time, it is also a tribute to these small furry creatures with whiskers that love purring as if they were true poets.

      • May 2022

        The Little Mermaid

        Pull the tab

        by Rocío Sánchez / Somnins

        In this interactive version of The Little Mermaid you will find 8 illustrated pages with different mechanisms to turn, slide, lift and move the characters and objects along the story. The creatures will follow the story closely and become even more immersed in it by being able to play with their characters. For example, in this book they can change Little Mermaid's tail by pretty legs and make sea animals appear and disappear. It is a rhymed version, which enhances memory and the link with the story. Be seduced by the magic of classic tales in a unique collection with strong sliders to push and pull that will captivate the little ones. These sturdy board books are perfect for toddlers.   Other titles in the series:    Three Little Pigs Red Ridding Hood Hansel and Gretel Snow White Cinderella The Wolf and The Seven Kids Goldilocks Puss in Boots Ugly Duckling Hamelin Futist

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