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larrua hotz

albert sanchez / piñol zigor eta lander garrok itzulia

I have really enjoyed reading this novel by Sanchez Piñol. As you peel off the different layers of the book you are taken deeper and deeper into this unusual and surprising action packed story. You are captivated by what happens to the inhabitants of an island in the northern seas. It just goes to show how little a talented writer needs to write an exceptional book. It’s also an easy and thoroughly recommendable read. I’ll say no more so as not to give anything else away so that you too may be as delighted and surprised as I was when I read it.

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apricots tomorrow

primose arnander, ashkahain skipeith. Ilustrazioak kathryn lamb

Somebody has just given me this illustrated book of Arab sayings as a present, It’s fascinating how old sayings and proverbs, while different in their elements and form of poetry, talk about the same things in different cultures all over the world: those who repay their debts sleep easy; whoever digs a pit will fall into it; while the cat is away, the mice will play... and all of them illustrated beautifully.

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arantzak barrura

xabier mendiguren elizegi

When he writes in a humourous tone, Mendiguren Elizegi, shows how talented he is at portraying the smallest everyday events, covering them with a little coating of irony. Humour, however, is not really what this book is about. If it were, it would certainly be the humour of the dark painful type. As mentioned, where Mendiguren Elizegi excels is in capturing the important detail of the mundane. The book is made up of five stories, five stories that could be novels in themselves, so there is merit in the fact that he cuts straight to the quick rather than dragging the stories out. Unrelenting crude narrative. Five wounds. Five thorns... deep in the skin.

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cloé cruchaudet

One of the most powerful comics published so far this year. It tells the story of the couple Paul Grappe and Louise Landy. Paul was enlisted during The Great War but soon deserted having witnessed the horrors on the warfront. He hid out with his wife Louise to escape imprisonment. For the next 10 years he dressed as a woman and became in name and nature Suzanne Landgard. This harsh yet beautifully fascinating comic book which tells us how this affected the couple has become a bestseller in France. It won the Prize Awarded by the Audience at the Angoulême International Comics
Festival. A must-read...