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Product Description: In the rough hill country of rural Catalonia, the Spanish Civil War is over and the villagers live under occupation by the fascist Civil Guard. With his father in jail, facing possible execution as a subversive, and his mother working long hours in a factory, eleven-year-old Andreu is sent to live with his grandmother, uncles, aunts and cousins in a farmhouse in a remote valley...read more
By Peter Bush (trans)

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9781771960908 | Italian edition edition (Consortium Book Sales & Dist, July 12, 2016), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In the rough hill country of rural Catalonia, the Spanish Civil War is over and the villagers live under occupation by the fascist Civil Guard.

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By Peter Bush (trans)

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9781941920282 | Italian edition edition (Consortium Book Sales & Dist, June 14, 2016), cover price $14.95

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Product Description: "The burlesque echoes the greatest Spanish classics, from Quevedo to Camilo José Cela."—M. García Posada, El PaísA Bad End is the story of Goyito, a dwarf at the end of his life, who tells us, in a bitter and sarcastic way, the miserable reality of his lonely childhood, his macabre experiences as a circus clown, and his liaisons dangereuses in Madrid's underworld...read more
By Peter Bush (trans)

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9788494365898 | Italian edition edition (Hispabooks Pub, May 10, 2016), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: "The burlesque echoes the greatest Spanish classics, from Quevedo to Camilo José Cela.

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Product Description: A book of stories, or "narrations," by the finest Catalan writer of his generation. In this beautiful work, translated into English for the first time, Pla transcribes his witnessings of basic truths: the waves of the sea, the hardness of rolled tobacco...read more
By Peter Bush (trans) and Josep Pla

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9780914671138 | Archipelago Books, May 5, 2015, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A book of stories, or "narrations," by the finest Catalan writer of his generation.
9780373709021, titled "Baby, Baby" | Harlequin Books, April 1, 2000, cover price $4.50 | also contains Baby, Baby | About this edition: book

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By Peter Bush (trans)

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9780857051509 | Gardners Books, October 2, 2014, cover price $32.90

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9780857051530 | Gardners Books, September 3, 2015, cover price $15.05

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By Peter Bush (trans), Josep Pla and Valenti Puig (introduced by)

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9781590176719 | New York Review of Books, April 8, 2014, cover price $22.95

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Product Description: Deeply moved by the unknown story of Hurbinek, that three-year-old boy Primo Levi mentioned in "The Truce", the narrator will seek to rescue his memory from oblivion travelling to Auschwitz. A car accident will hinder him from reaching his destiny...read more
By Peter Bush (trans)

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9788494174452 | Italian edition edition (Consortium Book Sales & Dist, December 23, 2013), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Deeply moved by the unknown story of Hurbinek, that three-year-old boy Primo Levi mentioned in "The Truce", the narrator will seek to rescue his memory from oblivion travelling to Auschwitz.

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Product Description: Isabel is a young Catalan woman from a conventional family. She makes her living cleaning - in a pizza factory at night, and in the home of a middle-aged writer during the day. But she's hiding a secret life: one filled with multiple sexual partners and dangerous erotic encounters...read more
By Peter Bush (trans)

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9781846689017 | Gardners Books, July 18, 2013, cover price $15.15 | About this edition: Isabel is a young Catalan woman from a conventional family.

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By Peter Bush (trans)

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9780857051585 | Gardners Books, July 4, 2013, cover price $25.00

By Peter Bush (trans)

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9781908524065 | Italian edition edition (Bitter Lemon Pr, May 7, 2013), cover price $14.95

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Product Description: The first work by this celebrated Spanish author to appear in English, this dazzling seafaring tale spans four centuries of adventure and pays homage to literary greats such as Baudelaire, Melville, and SebaldAs the 20th century draws to a close, a ship heads for Punta Arenas on the Straits of Magellan at Chile's southern tip...read more

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9780099516934 | Reprint edition (Random House Uk Ltd, April 1, 2013), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The first work by this celebrated Spanish author to appear in English, this dazzling seafaring tale spans four centuries of adventure and pays homage to literary greats such as Baudelaire, Melville, and SebaldAs the 20th century draws to a close, a ship heads for Punta Arenas on the Straits of Magellan at Chile's southern tip.

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By Peter Bush (trans)

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9781934824412 | Reprint edition (Consortium Book Sales & Dist, December 11, 2012), cover price $12.95

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Product Description: An NYRB Classics OriginalThe first great twentieth-century novel of dictatorship, and the avowed inspiration for García Márquez’s The Autumn of the Patriarch and Roa Bastos’s I, the Supreme, Tyrant Banderas is a dark and dazzling portrayal of a mythical Latin American republic in the grip of a monster...read more
By Peter Bush (trans), Ramon Del Valle-Inclan and Alberto Manguel (introduced by)

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9781590174982 | New York Review of Books, August 14, 2012, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: An NYRB Classics OriginalThe first great twentieth-century novel of dictatorship, and the avowed inspiration for García Márquez’s The Autumn of the Patriarch and Roa Bastos’s I, the Supreme, Tyrant Banderas is a dark and dazzling portrayal of a mythical Latin American republic in the grip of a monster.

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Product Description: Since the 1970s, urban communities across the country have had to face the wrenching process of economic restructuring. As the media announce the latest plant closings and politicians slam each other for outsourcing jobs, events are too often framed with a kind of economic determinism that denies agency to individual communities...read more

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9781606351178 | Kent State Univ Pr, June 30, 2012, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Since the 1970s, urban communities across the country have had to face the wrenching process of economic restructuring.

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9781846687174 | Italian edition edition (Serpents Tail, May 17, 2011), cover price $15.95

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9781934824191 | Open Letter, July 12, 2011, cover price $12.95

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Product Description: "Juan Goytisolo is one of the most rigorous and original contemporary writers."—Mario Vargas Llosa"One of the most brilliant of living writers."—Los Angeles TimesAn intimate account of travel in Andalusia during the 1950s, Juan Goytisolo's early, short narrative grimly revisits the province of Almería, still under Franco's rule...read more
By Peter Bush (trans)

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9780930829438 | Lumen, April 19, 2011, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: "Juan Goytisolo is one of the most rigorous and original contemporary writers.

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Product Description: Fast, precise, hilariously timed and mercilessly honest, this lively anthology of stories lays bare every pretension ever to have offered comfort to the middle-class psyche. From the zeal of a mother’s group staging a world-record breastfeeding attempt, to couples role-playing their way into parenthood at a third world "adoption workshop," to partners so affectionate they only communicate through baby talk—and lovers so addicted to arguing that even acts of God can't deter them—this humorous collection represents an exclusive English interpretation of award-winning writing...read more
By Peter Bush (trans)

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9781905583058 | Italian edition edition (Carcanet Pr, September 1, 2009), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Fast, precise, hilariously timed and mercilessly honest, this lively anthology of stories lays bare every pretension ever to have offered comfort to the middle-class psyche.

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Product Description: Juan Goytisolo's radical revision of his masterpiece Juan the Landless is the starting-point for this new translation by renowned translator Peter Bush. The new text focuses on Goytisolo's surreal exploration and rejection of his own roots, Catholic Spain's repression of Muslims, Jews and gays, his ancestors' exploitation of Cuban slaves and his own forging of a language at once poetic, politic and ironic that celebrates the erotic act of writing and and the anarchic joy of being the ultimate outsider...read more
By Peter Bush (trans)

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9781564785275 | Revised edition (Dalkey Archive Pr, July 9, 2009), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Juan Goytisolo's radical revision of his masterpiece Juan the Landless is the starting-point for this new translation by renowned translator Peter Bush.

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Product Description: “The finest crime-fiction writer in the Spanish language...”--The London Times “Full of atmosphere and descriptions to savour, this is as much a life-affirming tribute to Havana as a fine novel of death and detection.”--The Independent “Police work is not merely a vocation but a metaphor for a futile yearning to solve the island’s deepest crimes and misdemeanours...read more

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9781904738367 | Italian edition edition (Bitter Lemon Pr, May 1, 2009), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: “The finest crime-fiction writer in the Spanish language.

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Product Description: “A scathing satire of Spanish society, hilarious dialogue, all beautifully dressed up as a crime novel.”—Krimi-Couch“A first novel that’s spread like wildfire by word of mouth.”—El Avui“Teresa Solana is great proof of the vitality of the roman noir in Catalan...read more
By Peter Bush (trans)

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9781904738343 | Italian edition edition (Bitter Lemon Pr, March 1, 2009), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: “A scathing satire of Spanish society, hilarious dialogue, all beautifully dressed up as a crime novel.

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Monica Waitzfelder dedicated herself to recover the land where their fine family home once stood. It was resold in 1954 to a German subsidiary of L'Oreal in spite of the proven continued existence of its owners. This book contains the story of legal case led by the lone woman against one of the largest multinationals.
By Peter Bush (trans), Serge Klarsfeld (contributor) and Monica Waitzfelder

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9781905147540 | Arcadia Books Ltd, August 30, 2008, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Monica Waitzfelder dedicated herself to recover the land where their fine family home once stood.

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Product Description: It is Lisbon in the year 1905 and our hero, Luis Bernardo Valenca, a 37-year-old bachelor and owner of a small shipping business, is revelling in the luxury of Lisbon's high society. Intellectually curious, he writes about politics in his spare time, believing that Portugal's vast empire is having a civilising effect on the far-off lands it has colonised...read more
By Peter Bush (trans)

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9780747581741 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, July 7, 2008, cover price $28.30 | About this edition: It is Lisbon in the year 1905 and our hero, Luis Bernardo Valenca, a 37-year-old bachelor and owner of a small shipping business, is revelling in the luxury of Lisbon's high society.

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