The first time I have come across a book written originally in Catalan, this is a classic that deserves to be much better known. Natalia is a young woman from Barcelona who enjoys her job at a bakery but gives it up to marry Quimet shortly before the outbreak of the...
"The Angels's Game draws with relish on all the conventions beloved of Wilkie Collins and Dickens...weaving them into something entirely original and surprisingly moving that holds the reader's expectations until the final twist." The Observer In an abandoned mansion...
"That afternoon the little beach seemed to be on fire. There was a whiplash of light in the air, or maybe it was inside us. Who knows? Our legs were still wet from the sea. Sand glinted down the length of Borja's ankles like tiny slivers of tin. The man was face down,...
Together with her partner, the Hungarian Endre Friedmann, Gerda Taro was one half of the alias Robert Capa, widely considered to be the twentieth century's greatest war and political photographer. Taro was killed while documenting the Spanish Civil War and tragically...