Born in Barcelona in 1962, Teresa Solana lives in Oxford. She has written several highly acclaimed novels. “A Not So Perfect Crime”, the first in the Borja and Eduard crime series, won the 2006 Brigada 21 Prize for the best Catalan crime novel. Since then, she has published five more novels. Author of many articles and essays about translation Teresa Solana has also written children”s books.
56 كتب إلكترونية بواسطة Peter Bush
Juan Goytisolo: Exiled from Almost Everywhere
In Exiled from Almost Everywhere, Juan Goytisolo’s perverse mutant protagonist—the Parisian ‘Monster of Le Sentier’—is blown up by an extremist bomber and finds himself in the cyberspace of the There …
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Peter Bush: In Dying We Are Born
Deeply ingrained in Western culture, and in the minds of most church leaders, is the belief that there is a solution to every problem. Peter bush offers a powerful challenge to this approach, arguing …
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Peter Bush & Christine O’Reilly: Where 20 or 30 Are Gathered
While worship is the primary purpose of all churches, worship in the small church is distinctive. Whether a house church, a new church plant, a rural church along a country road, or a city church who …
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Emili Teixidor: Black Bread
In the rough hill country of rural Catalonia, the Spanish Civil War is over and the villagers live under occupation by the fascist Civil Guard. With his father in jail, facing possible execution as a …
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Jorge Carrión: Bookshops
‘Bookshops is the best kind of biblio-mystery, in which a cultivated and civilized detective guides us through the labyrinth of the world’s stores, stopping to talk for a while, before plunging off o …
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Teresa Solana: A Not So Perfect Crime
‘A scathing satire of Spanish society, hilarious dialogue, all beautifully dressed up as a crime novel.’–Krimi-Couch ‘A first novel that’s spread like wildfire by word of mouth.’–El Avui ‘Teresa So …
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Teresa Solana: A Shortcut to Paradise
A writer is murdered at the Ritz on the night she wins an important literary prize, battered to death with the trophy she has just won. A satire of the Catalan literary scene dressed up as a hilariou …
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Leonardo Padura: Havana Red
A young transvestite found strangled in a Havana park. The stifling death of a beloved Cuba. Das E-Book Havana Red wird angeboten von Bitter Lemon Press und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisier …
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Leonardo Padura: Havana Blue
A scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The third in the Havana Quartet series. Das E-Book Havana Blue wird angeboten von Bitter Lemon Press und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: …
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Leonardo Padura: Havana Black
Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. Second Conde mystery set in languid Havana. Das E-Book Havana Black wird angeboten von Bitter Lemon Press und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert …
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Leonardo Padura: Havana Gold
Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The fourth of the Havana Quartet series. Das E-Book Havana Gold wird angeboten von Bitter Lemon Press und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: …
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Leonardo Padura: Havana Fever
Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The return of Mario Conde. Das E-Book Havana Fever wird angeboten von Bitter Lemon Press und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: …
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Fernando de Rojas: Celestina
A bawdy romance from 1499 about 2 lovers and their go-between, Celestina Das E-Book Celestina wird angeboten von Dedalus und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: …
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Teresa Solana: The Sound of One Hand Killing
The director of an exclusive New Age meditation centre in a fancy Barcelona neighborhood is murdered, a case for twin detectives Borja and Eduard. The murder of a CIA agent simultaneously drags them …
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Teresa Solana: The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and Other Stories
An impressive and very funny collection of stories by Teresa Solana but the fun is very dark indeed. The oddest things happen. Statues decompose and stink out galleries, two old grandmothers are veng …
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Leonardo Padura: Grab a Snake by the Tail
Mario Conde investigates a murder in the Barrio Chino, the rundown Chinatown of Havana. Not his usual beat, but when Conde was asked to take the case by his colleague, the sultry, perfectly proportio …
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Quim Monzó: Guadalajara
‘A gifted writer, he draws well on the rich tradition of Spanish surrealism . . . to sustain the lyrical, visionary quality of his imagination.’New York Times All the heroes of this story collectiont …
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Carmen Boullosa: Before
‘Carmen Boullosa is, in my opinion, a true master.’—Alvaro Mutis Part bildungsroman, part ghost story, part revenge novel, Before tells the story of a woman who returns to the landscape of her childh …
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Helen Constantine: Barcelona Tales
Barcelona is one of the most visited cities in Europe, a multilingual capital of an autonomous region that longs to be independent of Spain. The city is famous for its painters, modernist architectur …
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Helen Constantine: Barcelona Tales
Barcelona is one of the most visited cities in Europe, a multilingual capital of an autonomous region that longs to be independent of Spain. The city is famous for its painters, modernist architectur …
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Joan Sales: Uncertain Glory
SPAIN, 1937. Posted to the Aragonese front, Lieutenant Llu s Ruscalleda eschews the drunken antics of his comrades and goes in search of intrigue. But the lady of Castel de Olivo – a beautiful widow …
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Jorge Carri n: Bookshops
"A lot of people will be interested in the famous bookshops of the world: Jorge Carri n has gone and visited them all. We can’t travel right now, but we can travel in books." MARGARET ATWOO …
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Joan Sales: Winds of the Night
"Perhaps the worst thing about war is the peace that follows . . ."Winds of the Night is the follow-up, published almost thirty years later, to Joan Sales’ acclaimed masterwork of the Spani …
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Merce Rodoreda: In Diamond Square
‘A small masterpiece’ Colm Toibin, Daily Telegraph’I don’t know how many times I have reread the book, including several times in Catalan, with such effort that speaks volumes to my devotion to the n …
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Najat El Hachmi: The Last Patriarch
The Last Patriarch is narrated by the daughter of Mimoun Driouch – the patriarch of the title – from his birth to her entrance into university. Mimoun believes that life on his parents’ land is not h …
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Najat El Hachmi: The Body Hunter
Isabel is a young Catalan woman from a conventional family. She makes her living cleaning – in a pizza factory at night, and in the home of a middle-aged writer during the day. But she’s hiding a sec …
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Adolfo Garc a Ortega: Desolation Island
As the twentieth century draws to a close, a ship heads for Punta Arenas at Chile’s southern tip. On board is Oliver Griffin, who is fascinated by the island and spends his life drawing intricate map …
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I Never Talk About It
Cupcakes, panda bears, break-ups, wearing sunglasses at night… The local and the universal come together in these 37 short stories, brought into English by different translators from all over the w …
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Daniel Chavarria: Tango for a Torturer
A former revolutionary plots revenge, in this “superior crime novel” from an Edgar Award–winning author “as adept at comedy as he is at tragedy” (Publishers Weekly, star …
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Teresa Solana: The Sound of One Hand Killing
The director of an exclusive New Age meditation centre in a fancy Barcelona neighborhood is murdered, a case for twin detectives Borja and Eduard. The murder of a CIA agent simultaneously drags them …
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€7.99
Leonardo Padura: Havana Red
A young transvestite found strangled in a Havana park. The stifling death of a beloved Cuba. Das E-Book Havana Red wird angeboten von Bitter Lemon Press und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisier …
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Leonardo Padura: Havana Blue
A scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The third in the Havana Quartet series. Das E-Book Havana Blue wird angeboten von Bitter Lemon Press und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: …
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Leonardo Padura: Havana Black
Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. Second Conde mystery set in languid Havana. Das E-Book Havana Black wird angeboten von Bitter Lemon Press und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert …
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Leonardo Padura: Havana Gold
Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The fourth of the Havana Quartet series. Das E-Book Havana Gold wird angeboten von Bitter Lemon Press und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: …
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Leonardo Padura: Havana Fever
Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The return of Mario Conde. Das E-Book Havana Fever wird angeboten von Bitter Lemon Press und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: …
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Leonardo Padura: Grab a Snake by the Tail
Mario Conde investigates a murder in the Barrio Chino, the rundown Chinatown of Havana. Not his usual beat, but when Conde was asked to take the case by his colleague, the sultry, perfectly proportio …
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€7.99
Teresa Solana: The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and Other Stories
An impressive and very funny collection of stories by Teresa Solana but the fun is very dark indeed. The oddest things happen. Statues decompose and stink out galleries, two old grandmothers are veng …
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€7.99
Teresa Solana: A Not So Perfect Crime
‘A scathing satire of Spanish society, hilarious dialogue, all beautifully dressed up as a crime novel.’–Krimi-Couch ‘A first novel that's spread like wildfire by word of mouth.’–El Avui ‘Tere …
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€7.99
Teresa Solana: A Shortcut to Paradise
A writer is murdered at the Ritz on the night she wins an important literary prize, battered to death with the trophy she has just won. A satire of the Catalan literary scene dressed up as a hilariou …
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Quim Monzó: Why, Why, Why?
A man tries to teach a stone to speak through sheer force of will. An engaged couple makes a pact to never lie, and their union dissolves immediately. Over the course of a phone call, a man learns th …
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Jorge Carrión: Against Amazon
A NEW YORK TIMES NEW & NOTEWORTHY BOOK Good bookshops are questions without answers. They are places that provoke you intellectually, encode riddles, surprise and offer challenges … A pleasing labyri …
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Alain Badiou & Nicolas Truong: In Praise of Love
The renowned French philosopher’s “ode to love’s power to unite in the face of eternity, and its optimism in the face of pain” (Publishers Weekly). In a world rife with …
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Margaret Jull Costa: Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories
This exciting collection celebrates the richness and variety of the Spanish short story, from the nineteenth century to the present day.Featuring over fifty stories selected by revered translator Mar …
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Victor Catala: A Film (3, 000 Meters)
Nonat Ventura, an orphan raised by nuns in Girona, Spain, embarks on a compulsive quest to uncover his origins, with the hope that he is destined for a higher social status. His search leads him from …
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Severiano Ballesteros: Seve
Now the subject of a major film.Once or twice a generation, an athlete transcends his sport – at last, here’s Seve Ballesteros in his own words There are golfers, and there are golfers. And then ther …
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Eduardo Varela: Patagonia Route 203
A road-trip novel that takes us on a journey of love and escape through the vast and magical landscape of Patagonia, where nothing and no-one are what they seem. Parker is an enigmatic lorry driver w …
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Margaret Jull Costa: Great Spanish Stories
A riveting selection of short stories in Spanish alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories celebrates …
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Susan Bassnett & Peter Bush: The Translator as Writer
Over the last two decades, interest in translation around the world has increased beyond any predictions. International bestseller lists now contain large numbers of translated works, and writers fro …
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Regina Galasso & Evelyn Scaramella: Avenues of Translation
Winner of the 2020 SAMLA Studies Book Award Edited Collection Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities …
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Regina Galasso & Evelyn Scaramella: Avenues of Translation
Winner of the 2020 SAMLA Studies Book Award Edited Collection Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities …
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