Bologna Prize Best Children's Publisher of the year

Great news! We are happy to announce that for the second consecutive year, we are one of the five nominees for the Best Children's Publisher of the Year, given by the Bologna Children's Book Fair. The prize has been instituted to pay tribute to publishers at the forefront of innovation in their activity.
Here you can see the complete list of the nominees. Congratulations to all of them!

Image: Roeselien Raimond

The Stab / The Tango of Returning

Julio Cortázar

Pat Andrea (Illustrations)
Enrique Vila-Mata (Epilogue)

“On the fifth day he saw him following Flora who was going to the store…
and everything became future, like the unread pages in that novel left face down in
a sofa, something already written and which one didn’t even have to read because it was already fulfilled before reading..."

Pat Andrea arrived in Buenos Aires in the aftermath of general Videla’s coup. Shocked by the atmosphere of violence, he worked on a series of drawings whose obsessive subject was the stab,
an image taken from the tango with that title. Once in Europe, he contacted Julio Cortázar, who, fascinated with the images, decided to offer him a short story: The Tango of Returning.

220 x 290 mm; 96 pgs. Hardback with cloth binding.

Ballad on Approving of the World

Bertolt Brecht

Henning Wagenbreth (Illustrations)

“Since poverty and baseness leave me cold
My pen falls silent; times are on the move.
Yet all that’s dirtiest in your dirty world Includes, I know, the fact that I approve."

Brecht wrote this Ballad in 1932. It is an ironical and lucid denunciation against bourgeois domination and the different social strata: politicians, military men, judges, policemen
and intellectuals supporting that domination.

Moreover, its perceptive text aims at shaking a society that was going to give power to those who “are about to slit humanity’s throat”.  

155 x 155 mm; 40 pgs. Hardback with dust jacket.

The legend of the Holy Drinker

Joseph Roth

Pablo Auladell (Illustrations)

“So they bring our poor Andreas into the vestry, and unfortunately he’s no
longer capable of speech, all he can do is reach for the left inside pocket of his
jacket where he has the money he owes the little creditress, and he says:
‘Miss Thérèse!’ - and he sighs once, and he dies. May God grant us all, all of us drinkers, such a good and easy death!"

The Legend of the Holy Drinker, a novella by Joseph Roth, was published in 1939, shortly after the author’s death. It tells the story of Andreas Kartak, an alcoholic vagrant of Polish origin, who one day receives the generous gift of two hundred francs from a stranger. 



Upon Andreas’ refusal, the stranger insists, telling him that if he wants to return the money later on, he must offer it to Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, whose statuette stands in the chapelof the Sainte Marie de Batignolles church. Andreas promises to keep his word, but his journey to the church is constantly diverted by old friends, unexpected encounters, and glasses of absinthe.

165 x 240 mm.; 72 pgs. Hardback with Jacket

Lord of the Flies

William Golding

Jorge González (Illlustrations)

"Here, struck down by the heat, the sow fell and the hunters hurled themselves at her. This dreadful eruption from an unknown world made her frantic; she squealed and bucked and the air was full of sweat and noise and blood and terror."

Published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is the first and most important novel of the British author William Golding. A group of boys, the sole survivors of a plane accident, are forced to survive on a desert island. A disturbing moral fable that exposes its characters to situations of extreme isolation, both psychological and spiritual. Bit by bit the bous stop obeying the conventions of civilization, leading to a turbulent and cruel confrontation, and an inevitable distressing and uneasy end.















Lord of the Flies is a truly dreadful allegory; a masterpiece. 

180 x 265 mm; 269 pgs.; Hardback with Jacket.

Report on the Blind

Ernesto Sabato

Luis Scafati (Illustrations)

"Oh gods of the night! Oh gods of darkness, of incest and crime, melancholy and suicide! Oh gods of rats and caverns, of bats and cockroaches! Oh violent and inscrutable gods of dreams and deaths!"

From the confined world of a mad man, the details of a systematized delirium are described with a forewarned tragic ending: "When did this begin which shall now end with my murder?"

Published in 1961 in the novel On heroes and tombs, a classic Latin American literature. In Report on the Blind, Ernesto Sabato created a version of Hell, where the reader dares to abandon all hope, were there will be no redemption. Luis Scafati masterfully illustrates the details of this dark labyrinth in black and white.

180 x 265; 224 pgs. Hardback with jacket.

Marcovaldo

Italo Calvino

Alessandro Sanna (Illustrations)

"Bending to tie his shoes, he took a better look: they ere mushrooms, real mushrooms, sprouting right in the heart of the city! To Marcovaldo the gray and wretched world surrounding him seemed suddenly generous with hidden riches; something could still be expected of life, beyond the hourly wage of gis stipulated salary, with inflation index, family grant, and cost-of-living allowance.

Written in 1963, Marcovaldo, or the Seasons in the City, is a series of modern fables of notable clarity whose protagonist, a melancholy workman, comes to life through the ilustrations by the renowned Italian artist Alessandro Sanna.

"In the midst of a city of cement and asphalt, Marcovaldo goes in sear of Nature. But, does Nature still exist? What he finds is a Nature that is disdainful, malformed, committed to artificial life. A book for children? For youth? For adults? Or rather a book in which the author expresses his how relationship, perplexed and arrogant, with the world?"

Italo Calvino

165 x 240 mm; 192 pgs. Hardback with jacket.