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«I feel like I’m on the verge of reaching my limit. If trying to graduate from a school for supernatural beings was stressful enough, now it turns out that my relationship status has gone from complicated to impossible…And if that wasn’t enough Bloodletter has decided to drop a bomb of epic proportions on all of us…But hey, when you think about it, when has anything at Katmere Academy ever been normal? Things keep happening: Jaxon has become colder than an Alaskan winter. The Circle isn’t ready for my upcoming coronation and, as if things couldn’t get any worse, there’s now a warrant for my arrest for alleged crimes Hudson and I committed, which carries a life sentence of imprisonment with a deadly, unbreakable curse. Decisions will have to be made…and I’m afraid not everyone will survive.»

A writer immersed in a creative block decides to take a desperate action: the subject of his next novel will be the life of the first person he meets on the street.    Thus enters his life Madeleine Tricot, a charming old woman willing to talk to him about her secrets and wounds: about marriage and widowhood, about her work as a seamstress for Chanel during Karl Lagerfeld’s golden age, about her disparate relationship with her two daughters. Valérie, the eldest of them and who lives in the same neighborhood, doubts the intentions of this writer, but decides that he can be a good therapy for her mother. And not only that: in order for him to continue with his work, she demands that the writer include her in the story he is working on, as well as all the members of her family, the Martin family, which is both in love and exhausted by routine.

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In 1980, the publishing house was bought by Grupo Santillana. Since then it has been a benchmark for children’s and young adult literature, as it has published authors such as Jordi Sierra i Fabra, Alfredo Gómez Cerdá, Laura Gallego García, Elvira Lindo, Fernando Lalana, Concha López Narváez, Joan Manuel Gisbert, César Fernández García, José María Latorre, Vicente Ramos Pérez, etc.

In 2010, the publisher had to stop the distribution of Memorias de una dama by Santiago Roncagliolo, a novel about Nelia Filomena Barletta Ricard, at the request of the heirs; in September 2011, the publisher withdrew from bookstores all copies of El hacedor (de Borges) Remake by Agustín Fernández Mallo based on El hacedor by Jorge Luis Borges, at the request of María Kodama, the author’s widow.[2] In 2013, the financial problems of the Group were the main cause of the financial problems of the publishing house.

In 2013, the economic problems of Grupo Prisa, whose debt was close to 3.2 billion euros, forced the sale of Alfaguara to the Penguin Random House group for 72 million euros.[3] In this way, a publishing house focused on the Latin American world was joined with another focused on contemporary North American literature.[4]

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On the eve of the 39th Herralde Novel Prize, in «Narrativas hispánicas» we publish Cuarteto, an exquisite volume of short stories by Soledad Puértolas, written in the classic manner but with a modern twist. Four deep, exciting and enveloping stories that are a good sample of the literary maturity of its author.CuartetoPuértolas, Soledad

«Argumentos» brings the new book by Hanif Kureishi, a «shrewd and devastating observer of contemporary life» (William Boyd): Amor + odio, a varied and provocative repertoire of short pieces (essays, autobiographical texts and stories) that touch on topics such as the relationship between creation and imagination or the author’s own sentimental education.Amor + odioRelatos y ensayosKureishi, Hanif

A «Llibres Anagrama» Martin Amis publishes Des de dins, a stimulating, seductive and ambitious book that reflects on writing as an art of narrating and giving meaning, «an uninhibited sweep of autofiction and imagination» (Elisabeth Nicholas, Vanity Fair).  From dinsAmis, Martin

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De pronto oigo la voz del agua is the new novel by the successful Japanese author Hiromi Kawakami, a narrative figure of great delicacy but in which there is also room for darkness, pain and heartbreak. March ends with one of the best kept secrets in Latin American literature: the writer Marvel Moreno and the story of her women in El tiempo de las amazonas.

Impedimenta also publishes three new graphic novelties this quarter. Perhaps the most attractive is Travesti, Edmond Baudoin’s comic adaptation of Mircea Cartarescu’s Lulu, a hallucinatory and extreme approach to what may be the Romanian writer’s rawest novel. Also, The Great Spaces, by Catherine Meurisse, an ode to the countryside, to the creative force of nature, to art, which was part of the official selection of the Angouleme Festival; and Oceanarium, by Loveday Trinick, a new and always beautiful installment of the series «Visit our Museum» with which I have learned so many things and enjoyed so much.