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Maria Barbal’s new novel after the international recognition of Tándem.

“Remembering that summer is like looking back at paradise before passing through a door that will leave it behind forever.”

For Nora, a twelve-year-old girl, going on Sundays to the lake, a very beautiful and quiet place of changing colors, is a delightful experience. Except for Quim, who is seven, everyone in the group accompanying her is an adult. Each of them harbors their own longings, and she observes them and does not always think she understands them, but on the last morning at the lake, as a result of a conflict between the elders and Quim’s daring, Nora will suddenly awaken from the dream of childhood.

Maria Barbal’s new work after the international recognition of Tándem is a novel of great emotional intensity about longing, beauty, the passing of time and the meaning of happiness.

A universal story about the meaning of life.

They will remember us is a fiction of the time Goethe and Schiller spend together in the summer of 1774.

The novel explores the conflicts of the author, his weaknesses, his shadows and greatness, and the women who made them bloom.

They will remember us is a mirror game between men and women, a constant process of revelations of the different aspects of the characters and their lives. The novel awakes in the reader the emotion of being there, living those same moments, exploring the conflicts of their ideas and the demanding artistic process.

A fighter for freedom trapped in Spain without horizons of the post-war period. A mysterious book that, even though there was censorship, recalls the revolutionary atmosphere of 1936. Three men fall in love with the same woman… And a search that will end up changing them all.

For Adela fitting in provincial León society, in the closed and suffocating of a village in the mountains or in the grey Madrid of debris is painful. She doesn’t adapt to a life of suspicion, to be looked at the corner of one’s eyes or to always keep her guard up in front of informers while her people is consumed in the guerrilla or put on the Regime mask and ask for <<special tee>> in the more frequented coffee shops.

For her, that was born in the working Barcelona class and had fight in the defense of the city for a fairer and more equal world, the worst is the imposture, and to that she doesn’t adapt. The wish of revelation in the teacher, in the impulsive reader, in the couturier, in the imperfect mother, in the woman that saw how her life in the Pirineus was truncated one day of the fateful year the war was lost.

Adela never got to comprehend what happened that day. Until she starts to find answers in the least expected place: the pages of the romantic novel A stain of carmine. The hidden clues in the story seem to contain an invitation to get back the colors of that dreamed revolution. But which margin will the teacher victim of reprisal have left to fight por a better society?

Through Adela, Carmen, Mercedes, Federica Montseny, Ana Alonso brings us a world corseted of the women of the post-war era and to the white and black Spain from the 1940’s, full of <<secrets, masks, shown lies and hidden truths>>.

An exciting and emotional story about the importance of chasing our dreams

Jon, an elephant caretaker and Edith, widow of Andrea and master of eleven cats, live in an abandoned village. Lonely neighbours at first and now good friends, neither one of them can imagine that the night in which the vane of the bell tower turns on itself, the eye of time is placed above the village and the life of both of them is about to turn with it.

The love between an orphan man and a silent elephant named Susi, a Japanese girl with the name of a bird who speaks with flamingos, a mother and a daughter who search for each other since the time distracted them, a grandfather whose family spell will be law, one hour at night- the tremulous hour- in which everything happens and everything stays. A land with your name is the bravest dream of two souls that strive to make the world into a better place. A story about LOVE in capital letters, about honesty with one’s dreams and about freedom taken to its purest expression.

A satirical novel, of social criticism, that imagines the future of a Barcelona assaulted by the tourist fever.

What do an architect from the Olympic Barcelona, ​​a fishmonger from La Boqueria, an editor from the Upper Diagonal, an immigrant who disguises herself as a Disney princess to make a human statue on the Rambla or a priest of the Sagrada Família have in common? The answer is that they are tired of Barcelona being the great tourist destination, a city at the service of outsiders who no longer recognize or feel like their own. And what would happen if these characters, so different, but typically from Barcelona, ​​one day decided to stop complaining and join forces to make a project of transformation of the city much more radical than the Olympic Games?

BARCELONA DEMÀ O AQUESTA TARDA is a resoundingly original and seemingly simple story, but full of nuances and plot twists, which with a fast pace and clear and concise language catches the reader from the first page. A satirical and parodic story that can also be read as a disturbing dystopia.