Libros del Zorro Rojo | Young & Adults

May 14, 2013

Pop. 1280

Jim Thompson

Jordi Bernet (Illustrations)

«“The second thing I'm gonna do,” I said, “is somethin’ I should have done long ago. I’m gonna give you both barrels of this shotgun right in your stupid, stinking guts.” And I did it. It didn't quite kill him, although he was dying fast.»

Nick Corey is the sheriff of Potts County, a town in the American south where some one thousand two hundred and eighty souls scrape by. Nick reveals himself to be cowardly and lazy: he is an immoral man who harbors no regrets, and raised in a backward, racist, and misogynistic environment, he acts with cruelty and perversity, and will let others take the blame for his crimes.

A masterpiece, Pop. 1280 encapsulates Jim Thompson’s vision of power and its corruption of society. The images from the celebrated artist Jordi Bernet, as powerful as they are suggestive, immortalize a work that is unique in its genre.

See the author's biography (in Spanish)
See the illustrator's biography (in Spanish)

18 x 26,5 cm; 224 pp. Hardback with jackets | ISBN: 978-84-941041-2-1

Rabbit Hunt

Mario Levrero

Sonia Pulido (Illustrations)

«We went on a rabbit hunt. It was a well-organized expedition led by an idiot. We had red hats. And shotguns, daggers, machine-guns, cannons and tanks. Others were empty-handed. Laura was naked. Once in the huge forest, the idiot raised his hand and gave the order to disperse. We had a full plan. All the details had been anticipated. There were lone hunters, and there were groups of two, three or fifteen. Altogether we were many, and nobody planned to follow the orders.»

A masterpiece of Uruguayan writer Mario Levrero, who has become an essential benchmark in present-day Latin American literature. The pictures of the prestigious Catalan artist Sonia Pulido make a great trap, devised by rabbits to catch men once and for all, out of this disturbing surrealist hunt.