The day we stopped watching porn
Carolina Otero · Hyperion
The poet and singer Carolina Otero has won the Valencia Prize for Poetry in Spanish 2025, awarded by the Alfons the Magnificent Institution, with this vindicative poetry collection, feminist and deeply lyrical that gives it the national recognition that we were all waiting for. The day we stop watching porn is a perfect gift for all sensitive souls. ALOIDA CLEMENTE (The Red)
bird on the wire
Dario Džamonja · Sajalin
Originally published in 2002, one year after the premature death of its author, Dario Džamonja (Sarajevo, 1955-2001), bird on the wire brings together twenty of his best stories (unpublished in Spanish) selected by your friends. To end this bizarre year, nothing better than a date from you: “I would rather die as a writer in Sarajevo than as a cook in America”. JAIME ORTEGA (Per-r-ucho)
Applied scenery
The guy who never eats dinner at home shipyard
After closing your blog (sniff), The guy who's never home offers us in Applied Cenafurism all his gastronomic wisdom: the kitchens of the world, how to choose wine or distinguish a good menu and a good restaurant, what Valencia is missing and his personal recommendations. All with his usual sarcasm, between vulgar and hilarious. G.POZUELO
Wanting is losing
Salome Esper · Secrecy
After the success of his first novel, The second coming of Hilda Bustamante, Salomé Esper gives us this collection of stories in which she twists everyday life until it becomes something that is both uncomfortable., endearing, pathetic and brilliant. The extraordinary serves as a lens to reveal intimate and social contradictions. Con Wanting is losing, Salomé Esper establishes herself as an exceptional storyteller. ESTELA SANCHIS (Bangarang)
A common destiny
Lucrecia Martel Black Box
The transcription of ten lectures and classes by Lucrecia Martel, dictated between 2009 y 2025 in institutions and festivals in Argentina, Spain and Uruguay. The director of The Swamp, Exist y Our land shares the resources that activate his cinema and his particular relationship with sound, while broadening its view on the historical and current tensions of the narrative. SAINTS LEMOINE (The Bathysphere)
Ungrateful motherland
Marti Dominguez Bow
Joan B. Peset Alexander, eminent Valencian doctor and scientist, rector of the University of Valencia, republican, deputy, good man, was shot by the Francoists on 1941. Who's crazy, really? Joan B. You wash: much more than the name of a hospital or an avenue in Valencia, i cal claim it. Why was he sentenced to death?, at the behest of whom? you envy, odis, blind repression, or not so blind? A little bit of everything. An exciting story of his last days, by Martí Domínguez, a safe value, author of The spirit of the time o The SEGA. Historical fiction to open your eyes and be more people. GUSTAU MUÑOZ
The murder of the Aosawa
Riku Onda · Black Salamandra
The mystery of The murder of the Aosawa It takes you to dark places because of the creepy nature of the case.. The powerful Aosawa family dies of poisoning on a day of celebration: eleven adults and six children fall to the ground and writhe in the middle of the party, someone has put cyanide in the drinks. A thriller told by its protagonists in small doses that take you by the hand to solve the case. S.M.
The other mother
Tina Åmodt · Transit
Tina Åmodt raises uncomfortable questions about motherhood, love, relationships and social stigmas within a lesbian relationship. Silje Marie is immersed in an existential crisis caused by infidelity, feeling more attached to the biological child than to the one who does not share their genes, and the intuition that their children must have many “brothers” spread around the world. She is in a mess and explains it to us without hiding her darkest thoughts.. S.M.
canyon life
Analía Plaza · Today's Topics
Inevitably, resentment can be seen in how Analía Plaza draws the profile of the boomers, those born between 1957 y 1977. Bumer Bumérez has worked hard to have what he has, Yeah, but he became an adult with a stable and well-paid job, and accessed housing at affordable prices. The fact is that there are many, They receive high pensions and had few children, so millennials, now, They are going to have to bear the weight of their retirement. canyon life analyzes the generation gap with bad temper through the stereotypical profile of Búmer Bumérez. All with a lot of sarcasm, obvious. S.M.
One by one in the dark
Deirdre Madden · Nature's mistakes
Three sisters and their mother meet because one of them has big news to give. They have rebuilt their lives at home, in Belfast and London, have continued to function with the weight of a loss that looms throughout the entire narrative. The father is not there. The father is dead. The father was murdered. The conflict (nationalist and class, more than religious) between Protestants and Catholics in a divided Northern Ireland is another protagonist in this simple story that hides pain and rage, and teaches resilience. S.M.
Nobody expected me here
Noelia Ramirez · Anagram
This book is torn in two by death. Noelia Ramírez begins by telling us about her round trip from her status as a charnega on the outskirts of Barcelona.: how she fled her origins wrapped in a cloak of shame and returned to them with pride and a well-spun speech. The second part, is a text about maternal grief with a beautiful ending that highlights how, also death and suffering, They are crossed by material. S.M.
The trail of books
Gustau Muñoz affairs
Making the gala of a literary culture (i general) unattainable, Gustau Muñoz condenses in The trail of books some of the texts he has published in the "Reading Notes" section of the Valencian edition of eldiario.es. The author touches on many issues, since the arrival of the extreme right in Italy, to historical revisionism in Spain or the new type of right-wing intellectual. But, especially, Gustau Muñoz talks to us about titles, autors i editors, especially those of the earth, to whom he recognizes a job well done: publishers such as Drassana, kidding, It seems, Boiling, Link or Affairs, among many others. Reluctantly, says Muñoz that the book market is not yet organized, so it is very difficult to build a readership and achieve the necessary critical mass. achieve, ultimately, "to better articulate a shared feeling of belonging to a town, not merely to be registered in a register or in the statistics of a population. Go from town to town. The great project of Joan Fuster. And a pending subject, still". The conclusion is crystal clear: you must read our authors, and it is in self-interest. S.M.
