Hispanophone literature

Maya's Notebook

by Isabel Allende

Neglected by her parents, nineteen-year-old Maya Nidal has grown up in a rambling old house in Berkeley with her grandparents. Her grandmother Nidia, affectionately known as Nini, is a force of nature—willful...

Crazy Tales of Blood and Guts

by Teresa Solana & Peter Bush

A collection of ingenious, always witty and sometimes gruesome mystery short stories by one of Spain’s best crime writers.

Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me

by Javier Marias

Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me is a riveting novel of infidelity and a man trapped by a terrible secret.

Marta has only just met Victor when she invites him to dinner at her Madrid apartment while her husband...

A Heart So White

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 1997

by Javier Marias & Jonathan Coe

Winner of the IMPAC Dublin Award, and widely considered Javier Marías's masterpiece, A Heart So White is a breathtaking novel about family secrets that chronicles the relentless power of the past.

Juan knows...

Ways of Going Home

by Alejandro Zambra & Megan McDowell

Alejandro Zambra’s Ways of Going Home begins with an earthquake, seen through the eyes of an unnamed nine-year-old boy who lives in an undistinguished middleclass housing development in a suburb of Santiago,...

Woes of the True Policeman

by Roberto Bolano & Natasha Wimmer

Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author’s death in 2003, Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolaño’s last, unfinished novel.

The novel follows Óscar Amalfitano—an exiled Chilean university...

The Island of Last Truth

by Flavia Company

“I don’t remember who introduced me to Dr. Prendel. However, I do know that it was at the home of Martin Fleming, the psychiatrist, during a get-together of the faculty professors to celebrate his promotion...

Down the Rabbit Hole

by Juan Pablo Villalobos, Rosalind Harvey & Adam Thirlwell

“A brief and majestic debut.” —Matías Néspolo, El Mundo

Tochtli lives in a palace. He loves hats, samurai, guillotines, and dictionaries, and what he wants more than anything right now is a new pet for...

No habra final feliz

by Paco I., II Taibo & Paco I. Taibo II

Héctor Belascoarán Shayne es un hijo de la más vibrante ciudad de este planeta, la Ciudad de México, un monstruo urbano que está a caballo entre el primer y tercer mundo, donde la violencia política y...

Nuestras Vidas Son los Rios

by Jaime Manrique

Ambientado en la majestuosa geografía de los Andes, este libro apasionante cuenta la vida de Manuela Sáenz, quien ganó su lugar en la historia como el gran amor del libertador de Suramérica, Simón Bolívar....

Seven Houses in France

by Bernardo Atxaga & Margaret Jull Costa

A brooding novel of colonial intrigue in the Congo, from the author of The Accordionist’s Son and Obabakoak

The year is 1903, and the garrison of Yangambi on the banks of the Congo is under the command of Captain...

The Map of the Sky

by Felix J Palma

The New York Times bestselling author of The Map of Time returns with a mesmerizing novel casting H.G. Wells in a leading role, as the extraterrestrial invasion featured in The War of the Worlds is turned into...

Tequila Blue

by Rolo Diez & Nick Caistor

A savagely funny, sexy crime adventure that is a biting satire on life in Mexico City.

Framed

by Tonino Benacquista & Adriana Hunter

Murderous black comedy laced with biting satire of the Paris art world.

Someone Else

by Tonino Benacquista & Adriana Hunter

Two men decide to change their lives. An innocent bet becomes a risky proposition.

The Barcelona Brothers

by Carlos Zanòn & John Cullen

A gritty noir set in Barcelona's savage underbelly.

Epi Dalmau is a desperate man. Early one morning, he carries a duffle bag into a dingy bar in a rough neighborhood of Barcelona. Four other people are in the...

Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World

by Sabina Berman & Lisa Dillman

A transporting and brilliant comic novel narrated by an unforgettable woman: Karen Nieto, an autistic savant whose idiosyncrasies prove her greatest gifts

As intimate as it is profound, and as clear-eyed as it...

The Prisoner of Heaven

by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The internationally acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Carlos Ruiz Zafon takes us into a dark, gothic Barcelona and creates a rich, labyrinthine tale of love, literature, passion, and revenge in which...

Necropolis

by Santiago Gamboa & Howard Curtis

Winner of the prestigious Otra Orilla Award

An unnamed author attends the International Congress of Biography and Memory in Jerusalem. He listens to a series of extraordinary life stories, but it is José Maturana—evangelical...

Off Side

by Manuel Vazquez Montalban & Ed Emery

Barcelona’s new soccer star is receiving death threats and Pepe Carvalho, gourmet gumshoe and former political prisoner under Franco, is hired to find out who’s behind it.

Pepe Carvalho is set to retire....