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1	Veronika Decides to Die: A Novel of Redemption more books like this by Paulo Coelho, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator) A librarian named Veronika attempts suicide by overdosing on pills, and when she comes out of her coma she is in a mental institution and told she has only a week to live. see all copies from £8.42! new only from £8.64!
2	The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession more books like this by Paulo Coelho, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator) The author of the international bestsellers "The Alchemist" and "Eleven Minutes" offers a new tale about one man's journey to capture a lost love, making surprising discoveries about his marriage and himself along the way. see all copies from £2.15! new only from £7.59! \| first editions
3	Seeing more books like this by Jose Saramago, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator) From the Nobel Prize-winning author of "Blindness" comes this follow-up, set in the same capital city four years after being hit by an epidemic of blindness. What begins as a satire on governments and the sometimes dubious efficacy of the democratic system turns into something far more sinister. see all copies from £5.38! new only from £7.62! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Flanders panel more books like this by Arturo Perez-Reverte A game of chess is being played in a picture, in which the white knight has been taken. And now a player is dead. Next to be threatened is the white queen. When Julia, the picture's restorer, discovers that she is the white queen, she needs urgent help to plot her next moves. see all copies from £1.38! new only from £5.54! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator) On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration: they have achieved eternal life. Then reality hits home, in this latest novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author. see all copies from £13.86! new only from £13.86!
6	The Tale of the Unknown Island more books like this by Jose Saramago, Peter Sis (Illustrator), Margaret Jull Costa (Translator) A man went to knock at the king's door and said to him, Give me a boat. The king's house had many other doors, but this was the door for petitions. Since the king spent all his time sitting by the door for favors (favors being done to the king, you understand), whenever he heard someone knocking on the door for petitions, he would pretend not to ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £7.28! \| first editions
7	The Double more books like this by Jose Saramago, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator) An alienated history teacher named Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is watching a video one night when he spots an actor who looks exactly like himself, right down to the last little mole and scar. Becoming obsessed with the man, Afonso goes to frantic lengths to find out his name, watch all his movies, and finally seek him out. When he succeeds in doing ... see all copies from £2.04! new only from £5.54! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	The King's Gold more books like this by Arturo Perez-Reverte, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator) From acclaimed and bestselling author Arturo PA(c)rez-Reverte comes the fourth adventure of Captain Alatriste, athe brooding, charismatic hero of his wildly successful Spanish swashbuckling novelsa ("The New York Times"). Arturo PA(c)rez-Reverte has enthralled readers and critics around the globe with his Captain Alatriste series. Having sold ... see all copies from £12.71! new only from £12.71! \| first editions
9	Your Face Tomorrow: Volume One--Fever and Spear by Javier Marias, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator) Part spy novel, part Henry James, "Fever and Spear" opens the unfolding seductive metaphysical thriller "Your Face Tomorrow" by Javier Marias, "Spain's most erudite literary export" ("The Independent" [London]). Acclaiming in "The New Yorker" "the clandestine greatness of Javier Marias," Wyatt Mason called "Your Face Tomorrow: Volume One, Fever ... see all copies from £5.55! new only from £5.55!
10	Manual of the warrior of the light by Paulo Coelho, Margaret Jull Costa Within each of us is a warrior of light. Each of us is capable of listening to the silence of the heart, of accepting failure without letting it get us down and of holding onto hope even in the face of weariness and depression. Values like love for all things, discipline, friendship and learning to listen to our own hearts are the arms with which ... see all copies from £2.08! new only from £6.39! \| first editions
11 view cover	When I Was Mortal more books like this by Javier Marias, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator) This collection of 12 stories by an award-winning Spanish author includes a story about a first-time porn actress, and other stories about people who seem to lead two lives. see all copies from £9.36! new only from £9.69! \| first editions
12 view cover	Cousin Bazilio: A Domestic Episode by Eca de Queiroz, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator) The book aroused a scandal in its time for its frank descriptions of sex and desire. see all copies from £9.71! new only from £11.98! \| first editions
13 view cover	Written Lives more books like this by Javier Marias, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator) An affectionate and very funny gallery of twenty great world authors from the pen of "the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature" ("The Boston Globe"). In addition to his own busy career as "one of Europe's most intriguing contemporary writers" ("TLS"), Javier Marias is also the translator into Spanish of works by Hardy, ... see all copies from £2.15! new only from £2.39! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Yellow Rain more books like this by Julio Llamazares, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator) Hailed on first publication and continuously reprinted in Spain, "The Yellow Rain "is a haunting ode to the power of memory, an elegy for a landscape and a way of life. see all copies from £2.04! new only from £2.04! \| first editions
15 view cover	Your Face Tomorrow, Volume Two: Dance and Dream more books like this by Javier Marias, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator) A book unlike any other, a daring experiential unfolding Spanish masterpiece, "Your Face Tomorrow" now leaps into uncharted new territory in "Volume Two: Dance and Dream," "Your Face Tomorrow," Javier Marias's dazzling unfolding magnum opus, is a novel in three parts, which began with "Volume One: Fever and Spear" (New Directions, 2005). ... see all copies from £8.30! new only from £10.79!
16 view cover	Variable cloud more books like this by Carmen Martin Gaite, Margaret Jull Costa Sofia is a mother of three grown-up children and trapped in a loveless marriage to Eduardo. Mariana is a successful psychiatrist, incapable of forming stable relationships with men. The two women fill notebooks with their insights and recollections, and engage in a correspondence with each other. see all copies from £2.00! new only from £5.54! \| first editions
17 view cover	The Maias more books like this by Jose Maria Eca De Queiros, Eca de Queiros, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator) Set in Lisbon at the close of the 19th century, this work is both a coming-of-age novel and a passionate romance. Newly translated by the acclaimed translator Costa, Eca de Queiross brilliant prose is brought to life for American readers for the first time. see all copies from £8.32! new only from £11.65!
18 view cover	The Crime of Father Amaro: Scenes from the Religious Life more books like this by Eca de Queiros, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator) An unflinching portrait of a priest who seduces his landlady's daughter. Ea de Queiros's novel, The Crime of Father Amaro is a lurid satire of clerical corruption in a town in Portugal (Leira) during the period before and after the 1871 Paris Commune. At the start, a priest physically explodes after a fish supper while guests at a birthday ... see all copies from £7.28! new only from £8.31! \| first editions
19 view cover	Borges and the Eternal Orangutans more books like this by Luis Fernando Verissimo, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator) Vogelstein is a loner who has always lived among books. Suddenly, fate grabs hold of his insignificant life and carries him off to Buenos Aires, to a conference on Edgar Allan Poe, the inventor of the modern detective story. There Vogelstein meets his idol, Jorge Luis Borges, and for reasons that a mere passion for literature cannot explain, he ... see all copies from £5.20! new only from £5.20! \| first editions
20 view cover	Bedside Manners more books like this by Luisa Valenzuela, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator) The Argentinian author of "Open Door" and "The Lizard's Tail" presents a sexy comedy of manners. Her heroine attempts to thwart a group of soldiers plotting to bring military rule to a Latin American country. see all copies from £2.04! new only from £20.81! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	The Painter of Birds more books like this by Lidia Jorge, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator) When the artist-father of this novel's heroine disappears, her mother marries his brother but, as she grows up, the girl's longing for her absent father never diminishes. He returns briefly when she is an adolescent, and their encounter is an ambiguous and dreamlike one. Set in rural Portugal, this novel explores the impact of love and art on the ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £20.06! \| first editions
22 view cover	The stone raft more books like this by José Saramago, Margaret Jull Costa One day a rift opens along the border between Spain and France, and the Iberian peninsula floats off across the Atlantic, a great stone raft. But what of the floating population? While the tourists and investors flee, the Spanish and Portuguese escape the coast and wander the inland roads. see all copies from £10.29! new only from £10.29!
23 view cover	The Relic more books like this by Eca de Queiros, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator) Teodorico Raposo, the novel's lascivious anti-hero is a master of deceit; one minute feigning devotion in front of his rich, pious aunt, in order to inherit her money, the next indulging in debauchery. Spurred on by the desire to please his aunt, and in order to get away from his unfaithful mistress, he embarks on a journey to the Holy Land in ... see all copies from £2.07! new only from £9.82! \| first editions
24 view cover	The migrant painter of birds more books like this by Lídia Jorge, Margaret Jull Costa Lidia Jorge's mysterious novel explores the relationship between a father and daughter, the destiny of a house, a family and an entire society, and the loss of social position as the family's land is left to wither and waste away. see all copies from £5.37!
25 view cover	The Dedalus Book of Spanish Fantasy more books like this by Margaret Jull Costa (Editor), Annella McDermott (Editor) The Dedalus Book of Spanish Fantasy is an ambitious and wide-ranging collection of texts from the middle of the 19th century to the present day, by authors writing in Castilian, Basque, Catalan and Gallego. Only two of the stories have appeared in translation before and while some authors (Goytisolo, Atxaga, Mendoza and Javias Maria) might be ... see all copies from £5.04! new only from £24.46! \| first editions

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