Series: Spanish Literature Series

A writer about to give birth investigates the story behind a mother she knows who has just killed her own twins. A mother kills her twins. Another woman, the narrator of this story, is about to give birth. She is a writer, and she realises that she knows the woman who committed the infanticide. An obsession is born. She takes...

A Spanish-gothic version of a Patricia Highsmith novel. Jon and Katharina spend the winter in Jon's childhood home on the Cantabrian coast, lonely and bored, ambivalent about their precarious freelance jobs and disconnected in their relationship. Yet, the couple's routine will soon be disturbed when one rainy night, they witness strange lights in the sky over the village. The next...

In the late '60s, Julián Ríos began work on what would have been his very first novel, but fearing that it wouldn't pass the stringent Spanish censorship under Franco, decided not to submit the completed book to publishers. Soon distracted by what would be his magnum opus—the Larva series—the manuscript was set aside and forgotten, until the author found and...

This potent drama, a collected volume of Goytisolo's famed tetralogy following a Catalan family, is widely regarded as one of the most profound inquiries ever undertaken on literary creation. Antagony surveys the social history of Barcelona and Catalonia, primarily since the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939. The work, originally published as a tetralogy and now collected into...