Books set in Spain (106)


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Por Quien Doblan Las Campanas by Ernest Hemingway ES

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Description:
En los tupidos bosques de pinos de una región montañosa española, un grupo de milicianos se dispone a volar un puente esencial para la ofensiva republicana. La acción cortará las comunicaciones por carretera y evitará el contraataque de los sublevados. Robert Jordan, un joven voluntario de las Brigadas Internacionales, es el dinamitero experto que ha vendido a España para volar dicho puente. Allí, en las montañas, descubrirá los peligros y la intensa camaradería de la guerra. Y d escubrirá también a María, una joven rescatada por los milicianos de manos de las fuerzas sublevadas de Franco, de ... continue

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Prosopagnosia by Sònia Hernández EN

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Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
A sly and playful novel about the many faces we all have. Fifteen-year-old Berta says that beautiful things aren't made for her, or that she isn't destined to have them, or that the only things she deserves are ugly. It's why her main activity, when she's not at school, is playing the "prosopagnosia game"--standing in front of the mirror and holding her breath until she can no longer recognise her own face. An ibis is the only animal she wants for a pet. Berta's mother is in her forties. By her own estimation, she is at least twenty kilos overweight, and her husband has just left her. Her whol... continue

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Red Queen by Juan Gómez-Jurado EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
Introducing Antonia Scott—the most compelling and original detective since Lisbeth Salander—in Juan Gómez-Jurado's Red Queen, the #1 international award-winning bestseller & thriller that has taken the world by storm. Antonia Scott—the daughter of a British diplomat and a Spanish mother—has a gifted forensic mind, whose ability to reconstruct crimes and solve baffling murders is legendary. But after a personal trauma, she's refused to continue her work or even leave her apartment. Jon Gutierrez, a police officer in Bilbao—disgraced, suspended, and about to face criminal charges—is offered a ch... continue

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Reina Roja by Juan Gómez-Jurado ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
NO HAS LEÍDO NUNCA UN THRILLER COMO ESTE Más de 400 mil ejemplares vendidos. No has conocido a nadie como ella... Vuelve el autor español de thriller más leído en todo el mundo. Antonia Scott es especial. Muy especial. No es policía ni criminalista. Nunca ha empuñado un arma ni llevado una placa, y, sin embargo, ha resuelto decenas de crímenes. Pero hace un tiempo que Antonia no sale de su ático de Lavapiés. Las cosas que ha perdido le importan mucho más que las que esperan ahí fuera. Tampoco recibe visitas. Por eso no le gusta nada, nada, cuando escucha unos pasos desconocidos subiendo las es... continue

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Rinconete and Cortadillo by Miguel De Cervantes EN

Rating: 2 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
The son of a deaf surgeon, Miguel de Cervantes was born near Madrid in 1547. He became a soldier in 1570 and was badly wounded in the Battle of Lepanto. Captured by the Turks in 1575, de Cervantes spent five years in prison. He was freed in 1580 and returned home. De Cervantes finally achieved literary success in his later years, publishing the first part of Don Quixote in 1605. He died in 1616. For nearly his entire life, Miguel de Cervantes struggled financially. His father, Rodrigo, deaf from birth, worked as a surgeon-a lowly trade at the time. De Cervantes and his family moved around seve... continue



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Such Small Hands by Andrés Barba EN

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Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
Shirley Jackson meets The Virgin Suicides, set at an all-girls orphanage.

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The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho EN

Rating: 4 (94 votes)
Description:
"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky." Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams." Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. The Alchemist is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English ... continue

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The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón EN

Rating: 4 (6 votes)
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
From the author of the international phenomenon "The Shadow of the Wind" comes "The Angel's Game" comes a new page-turner about the perilous nature of obsession, in literature and in love. Through a dizzingly constructed labyrinth of secrets, the magic of books, passion, and friendship blend into a masterful story.