Books set in Spain (172)


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The Silence of the White City by Eva García Sáenz EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
"You’ll want to race through The Silence of the White City, but it’s best to slow down and savor the full effect of the volatile, intoxicating universe Sáenz has created. This is the first novel of the White City trilogy to be translated into English—the second can’t come fast enough." —AirMail HOW DO YOU STOP A KILLER WHO'S ALWAYS TWO STEPS AHEAD? A madman is holding Vitoria hostage, killing its citizens in brutal ways and staging the bodies. The city's only hope is a brilliant detective struggling to battle his own demons. Inspector Unai López de Ayala, known as "Kraken," is charged with inv... continue

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The Spanish Love Deception : A Novel by Elena Armas EN

Rating: 3 (3 votes)
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A TikTok sensation, this rom-com about a young woman who agrees to fake date a colleague and bring him to her sister’s wedding has “everything you could want in a romance” (Helen Hoang, New York Times bestselling author). Catalina Martín desperately needs a date to her sister’s wedding. Especially since her little white lie about her American boyfriend has spiralled out of control. Now everyone she knows—including her ex and his fiancée—will be there and eager to meet him. She only has four weeks to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic and aid in her deception... continue

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The Stone Raft by José Saramago EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
Description:
One day a rift opens along the border between Spain and France, and the Iberian peninsula floats off across the Atlantic, a great stone raft. But what of the floating population? While the tourists and investors flee, the Spanish and Portuguese escape the coast and wander the inland roads.

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The Summer of Dead Toys : A Thriller by Antonio Hill EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
When a young boy falls to his death from a balcony in a ritzy Barcelona neighborhood, investigator Hector Salgado pieces the victim's world together in the city's seedy underbelly, where he confronts a human trafficking operation.

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The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway EN

Rating: 4 (4 votes)
Description:
Ernest Hemingway's quintessential story of the Lost Generation With a new introduction by Maria Hinojosa, Emmy Award-winning journalist and anchor of Latino USA “A truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that puts more literary English to shame. . . It is magnificent writing, filled with that organic action which gives a compelling picture of character. This novel is unquestionably one of the events of an unusually rich year in literature.”--New York Times Book Review First published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises displays the full flower of Hemingway's unique style, ... continue

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The Time In Between : A Novel by Maria Duenas EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
"The Time In Between follows the story of a seamstress who becomes the most sought-after couturiere during the Spanish Civil War and World War II"--Provided by publisher.

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The Visible Unseen : Essays by Andrea Chapela EN

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From Andrea Chapela, one of Granta's Best Young Spanish Novelists of 2021, comes a profound, compact collection of essays drawing on the properties of glass, mirrors, and light to navigate the overlapping borders of science, literature, and self.

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The Wind from the East by Almudena Grandes EN

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Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
In a small seaside suburb two strangers arrive - Juan Olmedo, accompanied by his mentally disabled brother and his young niece, and Sara Gomez, an enigmatic woman in her fifties. Both have their reasons for fleeing the city. Sara's father had returned from the Civil war a broken man, unable to support his family. In desperation, her mother was forced to give up the young baby to her childless employer. Growing up amidst a background that would never truly be her own, Sara was forever caught between her love of the good life and her feelings of duty towards a family and a poverty that repelled ... continue

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The Wonders by Elena Medel EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
"Through the rich inner lives of two ordinary, unforgettable women, award-winning Spanish poet Elena Medel brings a half-century of the feminist movement to life, revealing the simmering truth that money is ultimately the limiting factor in most women's lives"--

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The Wrong Blood by Manuel de Lope EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
"It was the month of May, or the month of June, in any case summer was near, and within only a few weeks the war would break out..." On the cusp of the Spanish Civil War in a coastal village in the Basque country, three men stop off at Extarri's bar on their way to the wedding of Captain Herraiz to Isabel Cruces.