Rogelio Saenz Bücher

A generous woman is rewarded by her community in this remarkable author- illustrator debut that's perfect for the Thanksgiving season, perfect for fans of Last Stop on Market Street.

As the major driver of U.S. demographic change, Latinos are reshaping key aspects of the social, economic, political, and cultural landscape of the country. In the process, Latinos are challenging the longstanding black/white paradigm that has been used as a lens to understand racial and ethnic matters in the United States.

An explosive and daring novel about bodies, sex, politics and disability by the prize-winning Spanish writer Cristina Morales Ángela, Patricia, Marga and Nati are cousins living together in Barcelona. As women branded as disabled who share a state-subsidised flat, they must fight every day to retain their independence and find new and inventive ways - from dance to underground zines - to stop the state from managing every aspect of their lives. Funny and furious, Easy Reading is an indictment of the institutions that stigmatise individuals as disabled and of the language that marginalises them. It is also a portrait - visceral, vibrant, combative - of contemporary Barcelona. But, above all, Easy Reading is a feminist celebration of the body in all its forms, of female desire and queer sexuality, and of the transgressive and revolutionary power of language. Translated from the Spanish by Kevin Gerry Dunn

Sunset is a love story with a tragic ending. It is the story of giving, being happy, and being successful, even with the odds of different cultures and having five children from previous marriages. Sunset is also the story of a man that loved the ocean, playing hard, and making it to the highest echelons of the biggest enterprise in the world: the United States Army. The story has almost a surreal ending, when he goes fishing with his friends, and after a wonderful day in a paradisiac island, went to sleep and did not wake up in his bed. He had disappeared. The title “Sunset” was inspired by his last picture taken. Little did he know it was going to be his last sunset.

Prólogo de Elvira Navarro. Esto va de una juventud rabiosa que flota entre los restos del naufragio; de un grupo de actores teatrales que se convierten en actores políticos y deciden que la realidad solo se puede retratar a través de la ridiculización, y que esta, para ser creíble y eficaz, debe empezar por uno mismo y alcanzar a nuestros maestros literarios. Quiénes son los combatientes: los que saltan a la comba (como los boxeadores en sus entrenamientos), los integrantes de una compañía de teatro universitario, los jóvenes que en la España del s. XXI sobreviven hartándose de amor ya que no pueden hartarse de pan, en palabras de la socióloga Layla Martínez. Este es un libro –acaso una novela, acaso una obra de teatro– que cuenta a través de la ficción una historia verdadera, que habla de representación y realidad, de radicalismos impostados y transgresión auténtica, del arte como provocación y de la provocación como arte, y lo hace retando a la lectora (y también al lector) en un juego nada inocente que incorpora, a veces citando y a veces sin citar, textos ajenos. Cristina Morales debutó como novelista con esta obra –galardonada con el Premio INJUVE 2012– que acota ya con contundencia el camino literario que la ha convertido en una de las voces más innovadoras, radicales y necesarias de la actual narrativa española.