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Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A couple’s future hangs in the balance as they wait for a train in a Spanish café in this short story by a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize–winning author. At a small café in rural Spain, a man and woman have a conversation while they wait for their train to Madrid. The subtle, casual nature of their talk masks a more complicated situation that could endanger the future of their relationship. First published in the 1927 collection Men Without Women, “Hills Like White Elephants” exemplifies Ernest Hemingway’s style of spare, tight prose that continues to win readers over to this day.
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Homeland by Fernando Aramburu EN
SpainDescription:
The story of two families in small-town Basque country, pitted against each other by the ideology of ETA, from 1980s to October 2011 when the group proclaimed an end to its savage insurgency. Told through a succession of more than one hundred short sections
63.
Country: Africa / 
South Africa
South Africa
Description:
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize, Hot Milk moves "gracefully among pathos, danger, and humor” (The New York Times). I have been sleuthing my mother’s symptoms for as long as I can remember. If I see myself as an unwilling detective with a desire for justice, is her illness an unsolved crime? If so, who is the villain and who is the victim? Sofia, a young anthropologist, has spent much of her life trying to solve the mystery of her mother’s unexplainable illness. She is frustrated with Rose and her constant complaints, but utterly relieved to ... continue
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I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness by Irene Solà EN
Description:
Dawn is breaking over the Guilleries, a rugged mountain range in Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, brigands, deserters, race-car drivers, ghosts, and demons. In a remote farmhouse called Mas Clavell, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed. Family and caretakers drift in and out. Meanwhile, all the women who have lived and died in that house are waiting for her to join them. They are preparing to throw her a party.
As day turns to night, four hundred years’ worth of stories unspool, and the house reverberates with raucous laughter, pungent feasts, and piercing cries of pleasu... continue
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Ibn Arabi's Small Death by Mohammad Hassan Alwan EN
Country: Asia / 
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
Description:
Ibn Arabi’s Small Death is a sweeping and inventive work of historical fiction that chronicles the life of the great Sufi master and philosopher Ibn Arabi. Known in the West as “Rumi’s teacher,” he was a poet and mystic who proclaimed that love was his religion. Born in twelfth-century Spain during the Golden Age of Islam, Ibn Arabi traveled thousands of miles from Andalusia to distant Azerbaijan, passing through Morocco, Egypt, the Hijaz, Syria, Iraq, and Turkey on a journey of discovery both physical and spiritual. Witness to the wonders and cruelties of his age, exposed to the political rul... continue
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Ines of My Soul : A Novel by Isabel Allende EN
Country: South America / 
Peru
Peru
Description:
A passionate tale of love, freedom, and conquest from the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabelle Allende. Born into a poor family in Spain, Inés Suárez, finds herself condemned to a life of poverty without opportunity as a lowly seamstress. But it's the sixteenth century, the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Americas. Struck by the same restless hope and opportunism, Inés uses her shiftless husband's disappearance to Peru as an excuse to embark on her own adventure. After learning of her husband's death in battle, she meets the fiery war hero, Pedro de ... continue
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Kazbek by Leonardo Valencia Assogna ES
Country: South America / 
Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
El pintor Peer encomienda a Kazbek la redacción de textos que acompañen a una serie de ilustraciones de criaturas, “bichos”, que han salido del volcán al aumentar su actividad. Peer es alemán, radicado en Ecuador; Kazbek, ecuatoriano radicado en Barcelona. ¿Desde donde crea su arte cada uno? Tal vez, su obra es un cuadro con las referencias locales, más perceptibles; pero también el pentimiento, la mancha del dibujo original que se trasluce a través de las pinceladas que lo cubrieron. ¿Los bichos surgen del volcá... continue
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Kleine helden by Almudena Grandes NL
Description:
Kleine helden is een hartverwarmende roman over een volksbuurt in Madrid. Rijk en arm, jong en oud, singles en gezinnen, Spanjaarden en immigranten. Zij hebben geen schuld aan de crisis, maar moeten haar wel dragen, en er ondanks alles proberen bovenuit te stijgen. Elk op hun eigen manier beleven buurtgenoten bitterzoete momenten van onverwachte solidariteit, van verontwaardiging en woede maar ook van tederheid en doorzetten. Samen blazen ze hun buurt nieuw leven in. Een roman over durven opstaan, en over kleine daden die het verschil maken.