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Merry Christmas

Author: Bruno Thursday 21 December 2023

This Thursday Bruno and the whole team in Sandra Bruna Literary Agency wish you a Merry Christmas!

During these holidays, our wish is that you give lots of books as gifts, enjoy reading and be with your beloved ones.

We will be closed from 22nd December to 2nd January. That day we will be back with renewed energy to start a 2024 full of projects and good books.

Thank you for trusting in our recommendations and for following us week after week!

TOTS ELS CONTES by Maria Barbal

Author: Bruno Thursday 14 December 2023

Today it is time to talk again about a great author since Columna publishes Tots els contes by Maria Barbal this Christmas. In my opinion, I have already said on several occasions that representing Maria is a luxury because she was an author I discovered at school with PEDRA DE TARTERA and has been a reference in our country’s literary field. That is why I believe that this beautiful hardcover edition, which brings together all the stories of this great author, is one of the best Christmas gifts that good readers could make to their beloved ones or themselves. In addition, there are some unpublished stories and, although it is always said that the short story is a genre that does not work, I have always thought that this is a literary legend because good stories make you reflect and, as we live immersed in the culture of immediacy, it is an ideal antidote for a generation that lives in the moment. It is compressed literature, but of great quality; therefore, it is an ideal way to encourage us to continue knowing an author who is a mainstay in Catalan literature and thus give voice to a genre such as the short story, which we must continue to cultivate and that only authors with a very good style, as is the case of Maria, are able to explain a great story in very few words. I think that the short story is a difficult register reserved for the great masters of literature, such as Maria Barbal.

Bruno wishes you a happy rest!

Author: Bruno Thursday 7 December 2023

Bruno is on a long weekend, but he wants to remind you of the last three books he recommended for you to put them in your suitcase.

• The Piano Lesson, by Bea cabezas (Read recommendation)

• ¿Por qué estás triste, Casilda?, by María de Mondo (Read recommendation)

• El tiempo que nos une, by Alejandro Palomas (Read recommendation)

Have you already read them? Don’t worry, with Bruno’s Blog… you will never run out of ideas!

A must-have novel in a good library

Author: Bruno Thursday 30 November 2023

Today I recommend El tiempo que nos une, one of the best novels by Alejandro Palomas. One of my favorites. I remember when and how I read it, because it is one of those novels that mark you and you do not forget. This month, Destino has published it in hardcover, in a beautiful edition, with a prologue by Mario Gas, theater director who has brought to theaters the first part of this novel, La isla del aire, which had great success in its tour of Spain. It is a choral novel of female voices, which you understand, and which become unforgettable.

Grandmother Mencía convalesces with her granddaughter, Bea, who does not want to tell what really hurts her. This is the beginning of El tiempo que nos une, a saga of women with hearts so big that they are capable of harboring from the deepest love to the greatest suffering. Among the five protagonists of the story, family ties are interwoven to form a network that sometimes traps, sometimes embraces and, above all, protects. Mencía, the wise and outspoken matriarch; Lía, who always stays; Flavia, who lives in absence; Inés, a mother who suffers and a lover who laments; and Bea, the youngest, are unforgettable characters, who keep secrets but shout truths, and who feel, laugh and cry.

With delicacy and precision in language, Alejandro Palomas constructs a feminine universe of relationships and emotions that envelops us. And in El tiempo que nos une, as in life, many things happen, but in the end what matters is who has been sailing by your side.

Alejandro is a master of writing, and knows how to profile these female characters, that you hate them as much as you love them, that make you laugh and cry, and that ultimately make you vibrate. A text full of emotion, that has left no reader indifferent, and that is deservedly published in hardcover, after managing to make hundreds of readers fall in love with it in paperback format. I know that there are few fans of Alejandro who have not read this first saga of the author, but whoever has missed it should run to the bookstore, and whoever has read it in paperback should give the hardcover edition to someone who loves it very much, because it is a beautiful and unforgettable story of women: a wonderful gift for this Christmas.

A book for parents to help their children strengthen their character and personality

Author: Bruno Thursday 23 November 2023

We encouraged Maria de Mondo, an author we brought into the Agency after her bestseller Yo, ego (published by Harper Collins), to do a children’s book. She has two girls and we thought she would be the ideal person to explain how important it is to have self-esteem since an early age.

Through Casilda’s story, we will learn how the opinions of others should affect us in order to love ourselves. ¿Por qué estás triste, Casilda? is an effective tool for parents to help their children strengthen their character and personality. There is a sentence that I love in the book Wonder: “You can’t blend in with the group when you were born to stand out”. An invitation to avoid comparing yourself and striving to be like everyone else; a phrase that encourages you to be authentic. Just like Casilda, who, in this story, is worried and saddened because her friend does not like the sneakers she has bought, and her parents help her to understand how much we need the opinions of others and how they should affect us. We must have respect for all opinions, and listen to them, but we must be convinced of what we think, and thus act accordingly: those outside opinions  must “influence” us in a fair and appropriate manner. This is an ideal book to enjoy with the little ones at home, offering them tools through a simple story to face daily situations that, badly handled, can make a day bitter without any sense. Children who know how to manage their main emotions are happy children, and we must help to reinforce their emotional learning.



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