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“El Rey del Maestrazgo” tells the store of the last months of life of General Ramón Cabrera, known as “El Tigre de Maestrazgo”, because of his harshness and shrewdness in the combat during the first Carlist War. Sicken of the civil confrontations, Cabrera remembers the years he fought with the carlists, when the applicant Carlos María Isidro de Borbón faced the regent queen, Maria Cristina, because of the throne’s succession after Fernando VII’s death.

The general’s memories get mixed with the telling of historical facts: the mutiny of the sergeants in La Granja (sevilla), that re-established the Contitution of 1812; the attack to the Ciudadela of Barcelona and the slaughter of the prisoners that were there; the Carlist Royal Expedition, that was on the point of entering Madrid and win the war; the palace’s intrigues and the part of the secret services in both sides, whit whom participated people as Eugenio de Aviraneta. A story, both literary and historical, about one of the most convulsed periods of Spanish History.

Published in Spanish by Martínez Roca

El manuscrito de Novapàtria son dos historias paralelas: la de un escritor fracasado y alcoholizado (Enric Messeguer) y la de un antiguo bandolero catalán del siglo XVII que, por una serie de circunstancias, se convierte en pirata en el mar Caribe (Roger Dordal). Las dos épocas acaban coincidiendo debido a un puente en el tiempo (el Holandés Errante). Como consecuencia, aparece en la Barcelona actual un pelotón de piratas que se dedican a dar por saco a antiguos franquistas que nunca habían sido castigados por sus delitos. Mientras tanto, Enric Messeguer encuentra un mensaje en su casa firmado por “la Hermandad de la Costa” donde le ofrecen una información que puede ser muy interesante para él. Cuando llega a dirección indicada encuentra un cadáver vestido con ropa del siglo XVII y un manuscrito. A partir de entonces, el cadáver, transformado en fantasma, se aparece diariamente a Enric obligándole a leer el libro donde se describen las aventuras de Roger Dordal y sus compañeros. A medida que avanza en la lectura Enric llega a conclusiones sorprendentes…

These are troubled times for the Inca Empire. The emperor Yupanqui Pachacutec has started a territorial expansion to avoid the fulfilment of the prophecy that predicts the near extinction of his people. This bloody process will involve fights against successors, unexpected betrayals and the raising of heroes and martyrs. But above all, it will require the effort of the people, which will be forced to work united in the construction of the sacred city, from which the Son of Inti will rule the fate of his entire domain.

Meanwhile, in a small village of the empire, a priest has read in the stars that Nemrac, a young woman with emerald eyes, is called to be the Daughter of the Sun. Overwhelmed by such honour, the girl’s parents, Nuba and Airún, will undertake a way with no return towards the Temple of Inticancha, where their daughter will have to accomplish her destiny. Through the tough journey, Nuba will lose his daughter and wife, will find out that reality can be terrible and at the same time he will gather enough courage to face fatality and to reunite again with Airún and Nemrac. This adventure will demand not only all his force, rigour and wit, but also a great spiritual growth to accept and understand the elusive meaning of life.

La virgen del sol is an exciting novel that transports the reader to the lands of the Inca Empire while disclosing the spirituality of this millennial culture.

In the ghettos of Warsaw, Lodz, Vílnius or Cracovia, some Jew girls were named by the German authorities to keep and maintain peace in the ghetto. Saül Steinberg was the president of Junderat, a nonexistent city of Byelorussia. This book tells the story about this man, living between betrayal and heroism. Vicenç Villatoro portraits the nightmare of the Holocaust combining fiction and non fiction, following the voices of some previous great writers such as Hannah Arendt, Albert Cohen, Salvador Espriu o Primo Levi.