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LITERARY FICTION
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Football is my Disobedience, Macarena Sánchez................. 98 2021
El fútbol es mi rebeldía
Juana the Football Player, Evelina Cabrera .......................... 99
Juana la futbolista. Que nada te frene
We Are Always Leaving, Verónica Szuckazer .......................100
Siempre nos estamos yendo
The Blank Stare, Manuela Saiz .............................................101
La mirada perdida
The Woods, Federico Ivanier ................................................ 102
El bosque
More than Enough, The Sistars ............................................ 103
Más que suficiente
Contact................................................................................104
LITERARY FICTION
Belén López Peiró María Negroni
ARGENTINA (Ciudad de Buenos Aires, 1992). She ARGENTINA (Rosario, 1951) She has published
works as a journalist for national and international books of different genres and these have been
media, and coordinates workshops of non-fiction translated into many languages. Guggenheim
writing with gender perspective. In 2018 she published scholarship in poetry. PhD in Latin American
her first novel, Por qué volvías cada verano. Literature at the University of Columbia. Professor
at the Sarah Lawrence College. Visitant professor
at New York University. Now running the Master’s in
Creative Writing at the UNTREF in Buenos Aires.
First there is this big city, and a derelict mall This first novel by Simón López Trujillo is
where two lonely young men, a tattoo artist and surprising from its very first pages because of
a post-office clerk, meet and become friends. the courage in his writing, his lyricism and a story
Around them, the world as they knew it begins in which the environmental destruction of the
to fall apart, and they are both the witnesses woods in the south of Chile will change the life
and protagonists of its collapse. Reality is of each protagonist, thus bringing deforestation
breaking down, it malfunctions, as if run by a and its implications to its inhabitants too. The
damaged software. The horizon is pixelated. The threat of a fungus near Concepción grows
characters flicker and break up, and nobody can in importance until it literally takes a man’s
guarantee that they will get out of a room if they body to lead to some unstoppable events.
go inside it. People disappear, others get trapped
in an action, in a landscape, in a sentence.
And the city grows and expands with entropic
voracity, opening up like a carnivorous flower.
Therefore, we are before the end of the universe.
Big Rip The Vast Territory
Alfaguara A vanguardist and fractal novel, an attempt Alfaguara
816 pages to understand the complexity of a world 300 pages
February 2021 breaking apart before us. Big Rip completely July 2021
comprises our present. It is also an open,
endless experience, in which the nature of the
text is the very excess of what is human.
The soldier has seen too much: terrorist riots, The Inca Atahualpa, Lord of the Beginning, has
bleak heights, sinuous borders. In this experience, been captured by some strange bearded men who
he discovers the reason for becoming a writer. have arrived at Cajamarca riding giant llamas
After a while, he receives the message from a and full of mortal cylinders in which Illapa, the
stranger, Aquiles, who asks him to listen. This god of Thunder and Lightning, lives in. The World
book tells his story. Aquiles was a boy when he of the Four Directions is in mortal danger. The
was kidnapped by the Sendero Luminoso party. mission of rescuing the Inca falls on Salango,
He lived in a small community at river Perené, a “chanca” spy from the Inca secret service,
from which he was taken and incorporated to Contador-de-un-Vistazo, a quipus knitter and
the big crowd. He will spend years being used as the protagonist a of this gigantic novel. But its
workforce, subject to abuses and humiliations, almost one thousand pages are not only based on
isolated, indoctrinated, dehumanised and this task, but also in the thorough reconstruction
turned into part of a machinery of ideological of a singular and outstanding civilization, the
violence. In the middle of a nightmare of his life, Inca one, in which the loyalties collide and the
Aquiles hangs onto an escape dream: escaping greed, treason and power ambition seethe.
from his captors, finding his family, being free. According to the specialised critics, The Spy of
The Fear of the Wolf The Fear of the Wolf is a true story. Can you The Spy of the Inca the Inca has become the best novel of the 21st
Alfaguara live in hell and end up with a clean soul? Alfaguara century so far shortly after its first publication.
216 pages 944 pages On the one hand, it recreates, with a solid
July 2021 July 2021 historical documentation but with the licenses
+ Than 4,000 copies sold to date of the novel fiction, the unsuccessful rescue of
the Inca. On the other hand, it gives a new life
to the characters that inhabited our territory
in the early stages of the American nations .
A group of Ona aboriginals, from Tierra del Fuego, Doctor Pons is a very histrionic psychiatrist, with
are taken to Paris for the Universal Exposition in experience in seriously-ill patients, who works
1889, to be exhibited as cannibals. One of them, at the Alvear Hospital. We are in 2001 and the
the young Jalapate, manages to escape, and that strained environment of Buenos Aires and the
is how this adventure around the world to get entire country makes a dent in him; recently
back to his hometown starts. He makes friends divorced from the mother of his only child, an
with an anarchist, and they travel around Europe, adolescent, with more expenses than earnings
the land of Eskimos and the USA, in a trip full of and a little prospect to improve, he receives
adventures and characters. The plot takes place an offer that cannot be rejected: the position
in different scenes, but the main scenario is the of Director of a private psychiatric clinic in a
The Cage of the Onas Exposition, where America and Europe cross All the Demons are Here remote island of the Delta in Tigre. The salary
Alfaguara their paths: civilization and barbarism. Amid Alfaguara is really significant, and he decides to leave his
480 pages the latter, Patagonian aboriginals are exotic 432 pages job in the Alvear Hospital and accept the new
May 2021 and confusing even in the savage parameters September 2021 one. What he is not expecting is the diabolic plot
of America. And at the heart of Europe, another that intertwines impunity, violent treatments to
dangerous and enigmatic phenomenon emerges: patients, very little information about them and
anarchism. Each chapter contains a literary about the owners of the clinic (who seem to be
process: the letters of the first chapter, a story German) and with Sophia, a beautiful young girl
within a story, dialogues and journals. The who seems to know all the secrets of the place,
narrative and writing resources of this huge apart from some supernatural presences.
novel confirm Carlos Gamerro as one the most
important writers of the Spanish language.
There was a prize. Money: a cheque. There was Birds of the Head is the novel about knowledge
another prize: an edition. The Great Publishing which is created in three novels: the elementary
House would publish a book. They were predicting structures of etiquette. These precision machines
a Great, Publishing launch. The cheque arrived. that define and perpetuate the social stupidity
Some days later, by mail, the Publishing Contract. ask for narrative machines as those that Fogwill
"We ask you to sign it as soon as possible…", a has polished in several novels and series of
little piece of paper read. It was read, as soon as short stories. By trying them, now he shows they
possible, the contract: Prize or Punishment...? know how to produce a reality that is capable
They called the publishing house executive of sustaining and explaining them: the factory
manager. A literary man, a subtle man, and production line where the last novel finishes and
with a famous excellent taste. (He was one starts to multiply is the production instrument
My Dead Punk of the jury members who awarded the book). Birds of the Head that, as good fictions, fascinates individuals
Alfaguara It was said: —Tell me, honey… Have you read Alfaguara with a promise of sense. Protect it, erase it, keep
128 pages my book…? —the one writing asked. —Yes. Of 192 pages it or lose your mind: the dominant variants.
August 2021 course! —the one awarding swore. —And did you August 2021
think —the one of the tales asked— that I would
sign a contract like yours having written a book
like that?... The one judging (the one awarding,
the one editing) laughed. The one writing did
not sign. And they remained friends: small
issues of copyright cannot affect a friendship,
it’s enough with build literature. The book will
come out like this. The one writing had already
learnt to lose, especially when you win.
There is no official currency: arriving with bills Still in shock due to the sinking of the Sheffield
or credit cards is worthless. It has no official destroyer, Great Britain fears a defeat and sends
language, or authorities, or religion or a flag. an eight-people squad to Tierra del Fuego.
There is no stable population. There are no houses They have an impossible mission: finding and
for sale or rent to stay for the season. No one destroying the Super Étendard jets and the Exocet
owns it, and anyone willing to visit it can have an missiles located in a military base in Patagonia
adventure; it is a little bit of everyone and, at the and killing their pilots. On May 18th 1982,
same time, of no one. For centuries, Antarctica has Captain Andre Legg lands with his commando
been a worldwide obsession, like a common place unit on the South of the continent… With the
though not common at all, a territory desired by relentless rhythm of a thriller and information
thousands who wanted to conquer it, no matter its never revealed until today, Marcelo Larraquy
hostility or the difficulties it poses. Just like snow uncovers the latest secrets of intelligence,
layers, one on top of the other, unsolved mysteries, The Invisible War espionage and arms trafficking of the Malvinas
Antarctica
loves, adventures, fights, deaths and stories Sudamericana
Ediciones B War, zealously classified by both States for
240 pages
416 pages occurred in its enormous extension are told here. almost four decades. This book has already
November 2020
February 2021 been optioned for a TV documentary series.
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COMMERCIAL FICTION
Andrea Milano
ARGENTINA (Olavarría, 1974). She has studied languages and worked as a She has written in different genres, from
translator and teacher of foreign languages. A voracious reader and literature historical romance to Nordic noir.
lover from a very young age, she started publishing stories in the printed
media of her hometown, until in 2007 she published her first book.
Lady is in her late twenties trying to fit into In a work party, in the open air and under the
what her family and society expects from her, radiant sun of any Sunday, a young girl runs into
until she makes this unexpected decision her boss’ wife; she is a woman who mortified
and moves to a national park where she herself with spite for years, and who is ready to
begins her tough training at a hotel. Dealing let it go as a bomb exploding at the protagonist’s
with guests from all around the world and feet. The bomb is a secret, the double life that
relating to her peers she finds her desired her stepfather kept for years; a lie that, revealed,
new beginning – full of love and adventure. disfigures him and leaves her orphan.
A Lady in the Patagonia Lady discovers her courage as she follows her «Manuela Martínez wrote both a brutal and
Suma de Letras The Last Perfect Man
dream. This story is not about an epic quest. touching novel, that pierces the reader’s body
192 pages Ediciones B (Cerca de la verdad)
It’s about a person, just like you, who put a foot 192 pages with precise words. The protagonist’s voice
2021
outside their comfort zone and went to live June 2021 reconstructs part of her story and her family ties
life as they meant. If you believe that everyone to talk, without solemnity, about fatherhood, love,
can change their lives except you... This story loyalty, models, disappointment, pain and the
will help you reclaim the power you have over search for a place in the world. The contemplation
your life and the freedom of building your of different artwork is the path that takes her
destiny. It doesn’t matter where you come from, from childhood to adulthood. A path that is
you can always choose where to go next. not exempt from suffering, but which will take
Based on a true story. her closer to her own destiny. The author lets
us witness a hard but delicate conversation
with a father that could not be possible».
Claudia Piñeiro
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Rodolfo Vera Calderón Magda Tagtachian
/ Paula Galloni ARGENTINA (Buenos Aires). Writer and journalist, third
generation of Armenians in Argentina. She worked in
Rodolfo Vera Calderón. MEXICO (León, 1977). Journalist. the Clarín newspaper for twenty years. Nowadays, the
Bachelor’s degree in International Relations. He worked at author has an active participation in the Armenian
The Washington Times and Clarín and interviewed royals community in Argentina and around the world.
such as King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden.
JULY DECEMBER
2021
KIDS
Fernando de Vedia
ARGENTINA (Buenos Aires, 1961). He has worked in graphic humour from a very young Today he writes stories for children, with Paco del Tomate as the main character,
age, and has published his works in newspapers and magazines. He has also worked in whose adventures were published in a very famous children magazine in Argentina.
advertising. Today he writes stories for children, with Paco del Tomate as the main character,
whose adventures were published in a very famous children magazine in Argentina.
A collection of stories with an adorable character: A collection of stories with an adorable character:
Paco del Tomate, inventor of crazy things. Three Paco del Tomate, inventor of crazy things. Three
stories full of emotions: Pablo builds a sand stories full of emotions: Clara finds a starfish
castle and cannot imagine all the things that and she cannot imagine what could happen
could happen in it. Joaquín kept bothering the next. Camila collects seashells and stickers,
wrinkled old man until one day he found out but she also wanted to collect bubbles! Paco,
he could make him very happy. Paco, inventor the inventor of water that doesn’t wet, one day
Paco del Tomate. The Inventor of Paco del Tomate Becomes Invisible
of useless things, suddenly lands in the park became invisible and surprised everyone!
Carousel Primera Sudamericana
Primera Sudamericana with the best invention ever: the carrousel! 32 pages
32 pages 2020
2020
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Fernando de Vedia
ARGENTINA (Buenos Aires, 1961). He has worked in graphic humour from a very young Today he writes stories for children, with Paco del Tomate as the main character,
age, and has published his works in newspapers and magazines. He has also worked in whose adventures were published in a very famous children magazine in Argentina.
advertising. Today he writes stories for children, with Paco del Tomate as the main character,
whose adventures were published in a very famous children magazine in Argentina.
Paco del Tomate in the Paco del Tomate and his New
Inventors’ Neighbourhood Useless Inventions
Get ready for the incredible Get ready for the incredible
adventures of Paco! adventures of Paco!
In the second story, Paco del Tomate. Invented Paco del Tomate didn’t like birthdays when
flowers-robot that say “I love you” when you he was young. He played, he had some cake,
smell them. He also designed electronic kisses but he was bored when the piñata came
to put them away in his pocket. And all this is because he never got anything! Luckily, he
because he is madly in love with his neighbour. could invent an Armablanda, a Zapatortes and
But Tornilloflojo is also dying of love for the an Aspirabot and transformed the following
Paco del Tomate in the Inventors’ same neighbour, and that’s how problems Paco del Tomate and his New Useless birthday into the most magnificent one of all.
Neighbourhood started in the inventors’ neighbourhood. Inventions
Primera Sudamericana Primera Sudamericana In the second story, Paco and his friend
32 pages In the third story, Luciana asks Paco del Tomate 32 pages Roque Lamparita have a brainstorm. And
2021 for help because the corner tree is in danger and June 2021 that summer they could make something
she won’t let them cut it down for anything in the extraordinary appear on the beach: a whale!
world. Will Paco be able to avoid such a disaster?
In the third story, we will know that, of all the
strange inventions Paco created, some are
really amazing: a Fly-Robot that Kills Flies,
Lotion for Bald Men, a Jet-Powered Cane...
Undoubtedly, the most magical one is the one
which has a special history: the Love Tree.
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Magdalena Fleitas Margarita Maine
ARGENTINA (Buenos Aires, 1961). He has worked ARGENTINA (Buenos Aires, 1960). She worked as
in graphic humour from a very young age, and has kindergarten teacher has been writing tales for children
published his works in newspapers and magazines. for years. She wrote Un gran resfrío, Un día animal,
He has also worked in advertising. Today he writes Lluvia de plata and El caballo alado, among others.
stories for children, with Paco del Tomate as the She lives with her two children, a puppeteer husband
main character, whose adventures were published and dog that is the king of the house. Her books are
in a very famous children magazine in Argentina. widely accepted in the educational environment.
Letters to a Gnome
Songs Kite, Musical Poetry
Sugar and flour were the preparations of that
Magdalena Fleitas created a true artistic and night before going to bed. In the morning
pedagogical universe. With a special and loving we checked that it wasn’t our imagination:
vision, she accompanies the current childhoods there were very small footprints on the table.
and proposes the game with words and music. A I had seen footprints like those before. They
detailed selection of musical poems that includes were in a huge book that explained how
her most famous songs and her new releases. the gnomes were and how they lived...
Magdalena Fleitas is one of the biggest Margarita Mainé creates a tale full of adventure,
examples of music for boys and girls and all fantasy and a lot of reality. A story that will leave
the family enjoys her melodies. This book, us thinking if the things that we can’t see exist
collection of poems and song book may be and if growing up means leaving fantasy aside.
the instrument to enhance art, joy and the
curious and attentive look of the world.
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Graciela Cabal
ARGENTINA (Buenos Aires, 1960). She worked as
kindergarten teacher has been writing tales for children
for years. She wrote Un gran resfrío, Un día animal,
Lluvia de plata and El caballo alado, among others.
She lives with her two children, a puppeteer husband
and dog that is the king of the house. Her books are
widely accepted in the educational environment.
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Macarena Sánchez Evelina Cabrera
ARGENTINA (Santa Fe, 1991). Football player, feminist activist and leading figure ARGENTINA (Buenos Aires, 1986). After her parents
of the fight for female football player’s professionalization in Argentina. She is separated, when she was only 13, she distanced herself
internationally recognised for her defense of women’s rights in sports, and today from her home until she starting living on the street.
is the executive director of the National Institute of Youth in Argentina. After many hard years, she returned home and rebuilt
her life. In 2020, she was included among the 100
most influential women according to the BBC.
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Verónica Sukaczer Manuela Saiz
ARGENTINA (Buenos Aires, 1968). She was ARGENTINA (Trelew, 1986). Comedian, stand-up
diagnosed with severe-to-profound hearing loss teacher, instagrammer and resilient. She shares her
when she was a child. She is a journalist, editor painful story to help others overcome their own.
and writer. She also wrote some scripts for TV
shows. She graduated from Logogenia (method
so that deaf children can read and write) some
years ago, so she also works with deaf children.
With a great literary skill, Verónica Sukaczer Manu felt disgust, rejection and fear every
creates a story that, as Chinese boxes, renews time she was close to her father, and she didn’t
her commitment to social memory, the search understand why. She couldn’t remember anything
for identity and the circulation of the word. A that might have triggered those feelings. She felt
topic that is rarely mentioned in young adult weird, sick, uncomfortable with herself and in her
fiction appears in this book, which is the case relationships. When she started doing therapy, at
of migrants, those who have no choice but run first she would just sit with a blank stare, unable
away to survive. Many walls have divided lands. to speak, until little by little the truth emerged: she
One suddenly divides Zinnia’s life. Without any had been abused by her father when she was a
We Are Always Leaving other option, the family runs away, migrates to The Blank Stare child. This is a story of bravery and resilience, with
Nube de Tinta find a place to settle down and to live in peace. Alfaguara Infantil y Juvenil a great emotional strength that encouraged the
112 pages From one house to the other, from one country 128 pages main character to heal and reinvent her own life
June 2021 to the other, from the road to a refugees’ camp, 2021 and her sexuality, and it is a message of support
and then a great fire and another escape, and for those who are going through the same pain.
so much more... Zinnia holds on to her sister
Jaz and her story. Telling who they are allows
her to remember where they come from and
to recover the strength to cross new walls.
Cecilia Palacios
Copyright Sales Co-Ordinator
Penguin Random House
Grupo Editorial