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Manolito Four-Eyes
"Nobody knows me as Manolito Garca Moreno, not even Big Ears Lopez, and he's my best friend; even though sometimes he can be a dog and a traitor (and other times, a dog traitor), he's still my best friend and he's a whole lotta cool. In Carabanchel - that's the name of my neighborhood in Madrid, in case I haven't told you - everyone knows me as Manolito Four-Eyes." "Don't try to be different," says Manolito's mother. But he can't help it - he doesn't have to try. Whether he's fighting over the One-and-Only Susana; trying not to fight with Ozzy the Bully; telling his entire life story to the school psychologist; or discovering the true meaning of World Peace-ten-year-old Manolito is a real original. As he'd say, in the worldwide world, there's nobody like him And for the first time, this best-selling phenomenon from Spain is available in English.
Manolito Four-Eyes
"Nobody knows me as Manolito Garca Moreno, not even Big Ears Lopez, and he's my best friend; even though sometimes he can be a dog and a traitor (and other times, a dog traitor), he's still my best friend and he's a whole lotta cool. In Carabanchel-that's the name of my neighborhood in Madrid, in case I haven't told you-everyone knows me as Manolito Four-Eyes." "Don't try to be different," says Manolito's mother. But he can't help it - he doesn't have to try. Whether he's fighting over the One-and-Only Susana; trying not to fight with Ozzy the Bully; telling his entire life story to the school psychologist; or discovering the true meaning of World Peace-10-year-old Manolito is a real original. As he'd say, in the worldwide world, there's nobody like him And for the first time, this best-selling phenomenon from Spain is available in English.
Open Heart
This intimate family novel that follows the rise and fall of a great love is also a moving tribute to the generation that struggled to survive in Spain after the Civil War. In Open Heart, Elvira Lindo tells the story of her parents—the story of an excessive love, passionate and unstable, forged through countless fights and reconciliations, which had a profound effect on their entire family. Manuel Lindo came from nothing, but stubbornly worked his way up at the Dredging and Construction Company. Obliged to move from city to city for his job, the family couldn’t put down roots, and Elvira and her siblings’ childhood was marked by unpredictability. As they pass through temporary homes, they’re caught between Manuel’s outsized temper and their young mother’s worsening illness, which would tragically take her life. Beginning with nine-year-old Manuel’s experience in Madrid in 1939, Open Heart takes us on a sweeping journey through Spain full of beautifully observed insights about love in its many forms.
Manolito Four-Eyes
The first book in a series about a ten-year-old boys misadventures in Spain.
Manolito on the road
Manolito Gafotas regresa para contarnos una de las experiencias más inolvidables de su vida. Y es que el día que su padre dijo: "Manolito se viene conmigo", un enorme y desconocido mundo se abrió ante sus gafas. Intercambio de ideas y experiencias, acerca de cómo se construye desde diferentes lugares, géneros o subgéneros; cómo las mismas historias pueden ser expresadas a través de múltiples lenguajes y medios expresivos.
Singular and Plural
Winner of the Ramon Llull International Prize Winner of the 2017 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Edward Sapir Book Prize A vibrant and surprisingly powerful civic and political movement for an independent Catalonia has brought renewed urgency to questions about what it means, personally and politically, to speak or not to speak Catalan and to claim Catalan identity. In this book, Kathryn Woolard develops a framework for analyzing ideologies of linguistic authority and uses it to illuminate the politics of language in Spain and Catalonia, where Catalan jostles with Castilian for legitimacy. Longitudinal research across decades of political autonomy contextualizes this ethnographic study o...
Open hart
Een prachtige roman waarin een vrouw terugblikt op het tumultueuze leven van haar ouders en hoe dat haar gevormd heeft. Open hart is gebaseerd op een familieverhaal. Het verhaal van Elvira’s vader, over hoe hij als negenjarige jongen in de naoorlogse jaren door zijn moeder naar een kille en gewelddadige tante in Madrid werd gestuurd. Uiteindelijk vindt hij bij andere familieleden een warm welkom, maar hij hield er een pathologische angst voor eenzaamheid aan over. Die ervaring vormde de gepassioneerde maar verwoestende liefde tussen hem en Elvira’s moeder en ook zijn vaderschap. Elvira Lindo vertelt eerlijk en vanuit het hart over hoe zij als dochter terugblikt op haar jeugd en probeert te begrijpen wat haar gevormd heeft.
Don de gentes
Elvira Lindo sobrevuela de un lado a otro el Atlántico, va de Los Soprano a Mujercitas, de Serrat a Paul Auster, de los nuevos tertulianos a João Gilberto... Los artículos de Elvira Lindo tienen registros muy diferentes pero un punto en común: la capacidad de condensar una mirada múltiple sobre la realidad. La serie «Don de gentes», publicada en El País, es la manera de Elvira Lindo de sintetizar lo que observan sus grandes ojos. Guiada por la ansiedad poética de verlo todo al mismo tiempo, es capaz de descubrir, a veces de forma intuitiva o instantánea, lo que esconden las miradas de los otros. En estos artículos hay un estado de ánimo permanente y fijo, el de una mujer que se enfrenta a la vida sin abandonar ninguna de sus edades. Reseña : «Su Don de gentes es, en cierto modo, el espejo en el que está el carnaval del mundo tal como lo ve; en alguna esquina, como en el más famoso cuadro de Velázquez, está también ella reflejada. Leerla es verla mirar.» Juan Cruz Ruiz
Lo que me queda por vivir
Una novela inolvidable sobre el aprendizaje de una madre y la lealtad incondicional del hijo que debe proteger. Antonia tiene veintiséis años cuando se ve sola con un niño de cuatro en el cambiante Madrid de los ochenta. La suya es la historia de un viaje interior, el de una mujer que se enfrenta a la juventud y a la maternidad mientras intenta hacerse un lugar en la vida, en una ciudad y en una época de tiempo acelerado, más propicio a la confusión que a la certeza, sobre todo para alguien que ha tenido una experiencia demasiado temprana de la pérdida y de la soledad. Lo que me queda por vivir es la crónica de un aprendizaje: cómo se logra a duras penas sobreponerse a la deslealtad; cómo el desvalimiento y la ternura de un hijo alivian la fragilidad de quien ha de hacerse fuerte para protegerlo. Lo que me queda por vivir tiene la fuerza de las novelas que retratan un tiempo al contar unas vidas singulares, hechas por igual de desamparo e inocencia. La escritura de Elvira Lindo alcanza aquí una belleza sobrecogedora, yendo derecha al nervio de las cosas, al corazón de esas verdades sobre la experiencia que sólo puede contar la ficción.
Made in Canada, Read in Spain
Made in Canada, Read in Spain is an edited collection of essays on the impact, diffusion, and translation of English Canadian literature in Spain. Given the size of the world’s Spanish-speaking population (some 350 million people) and the importance of the Spanish language in global publishing, it appeals to publishers, cultural agents and translators, as well as to Canadianists and Translation Studies scholars. By analyzing more than 100 sources of online and print reviews, this volume covers a wide-range of areas and offers an ambitious scope that goes from the institutional side of the Spanish-Anglo-Canadian exchange to issues on the insertion of CanLit in the Spanish curriculum; from ‘nation branding’, translation, and circulation of Canadian authors in autonomous communities (such as Catalonia) to the official acknowledgement of some authors by the Spanish literary system -Margaret Atwood and Leonard Cohen were awarded the prestigious Prince of Asturias prize in 2008 and 2011, respectively.
