Giving a book to someone we know who appreciates reading is easy, but choosing the book in question is not so easy. We help you with this varied selection.
Fantastic illustrated books, journeys through the history of fashion and its characters, trips to the heart of nature, jewel editions of classics that you will recognize… Here are some ideas to give books and not fail .
The story in a flash
The grandmother of the protagonist of this entertaining illustrated book maintains that “with a few cartoons and a glass of anise, I’ll tell you everything in a flash.” A new way of telling the story, not boring at all, for the little ones. The benefits of authoring this book will go to Oxfam Intermn and with each purchase, Amazon donates a virtual credit to the school of your choice or to the NGO Educo.
Arboretum
The Impedimenta publishing house continues to publish its successful series “Visit our Museum”, a wonderful encyclopedic saga of illustrated books that is worth collecting. In this case, it is a guide sponsored by London’s Kew Gardens, which shows us the exciting tree life in the world.
Lucien Freud
To prepare ourselves for the next exhibition at the Thyssen Museum in Madrid on Lucian Freud, this magnificent edition by Phaidon is a great approach. For the first time in Spanish, this edition brings together his works from the 1930s until his death in 2011 with hundreds of paintings, drawings, sketches and engravings, including personal photographs and illustrated private letters.
A new world of flavors
Latin American cuisine is today one of the most widespread and appreciated in the world. According to Virgilio Martinez, “there is approximately half of the world’s biodiversity”. This book takes us into this fascinating culinary universe by the hand of Michi Strausfeld, one of the great connoisseurs of Latin American literature, and Sabine Hueck, a broadcaster of the culinary universe in Spanish from her Deutsche Welle program Con sabor y saber .
Roald Dahl Case (Illustrated)
The Nordic publishing house has published two wonderful stories by the great Roald Dahl, with fantastic illustrations by Iban Barrenetxea and Federico Delicado. It’s about The Tasting and The Bookseller . Now it brings together both in an ideal edition to give as a gift, in a case.
Where swan lives
The great work of Marcel Proust, In search of lost time , now recovered in its first two volumes by the Alba publishing house. In a new translation by Maria Teresa Gallego Urrutia and Amaya Garcia Gallego, it includes in a first volume the first two parts of this magnum opus, Where Swann Lives (1913) and In the Shadow of the Flowering Girls. (1917), focused on the narrator’s childhood and adolescence.
Imperiophobia and black legend. Rome, Russia, the United States and the Spanish Empire
New edition, revised and expanded, of one of the biggest selling phenomena in the essay genre in recent years. Elvira Roca rigorously tackles in this volume the question of delimiting the ideas of empire, black legend and imperiophobia. The author deals with imperiphobia in the cases of Rome, the United States and Russia to analyze the Spanish Empire in more depth and with a better perspective.
The poetry of the trees
If you like poetry and nature, this is your book, or the one of the person with these preferences to whom you give it. The Nordic publishing house brings together more than seventy poems about trees by writers such as Federico Garcia Lorca, Pablo Neruda, Wisawa Szymborska, Rafael Alberti, Camilo Jose Cela, Gioconda Belli, Fernando Pessoa, Walt Whitman. .., with fantastic illustrations by Leticia Ruifernndez.
My window
Since David Hockney learned to draw on his tablet, a new world of artistic possibilities opened up before him. This book published by Taschen brings together 120 drawings made between 2009 and 2012, moments captured through his window, with vibrant sunrises, peaceful night impressions and lots of vegetation and light reflections. A delight for book-table collectors.
Karl
The Superflua publishing house, specialized in fashion and design, publishes in Spanish this entertaining biography of the great Karl Lagerfeld, written by the French journalist Marie Ottavi. Through interviews with people very close to the designer, the journalist tries to reveal the interior of a man as enigmatic as Lagerfeld.
The young woman and the sea
The Impedimenta publishing house publishes the new illustrated book by Catherine Meurisse, author of The Literary Comedy or The Bridge of the Arts , who in 2020, at just 40 years old, became the first cartoonist accepted at the Academy of Fine Arts in France, within the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. In this book he recounts his experiences in the middle of nature during the months he lived in Villa Kujoyama, a residence for artists in Kyoto.
Historia de Saint Michele
They are the unprejudiced memories of a doctor and brilliant Swedish humanist who lived in a villa in Capri between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, where personalities such as Henry James, Stefan Zweig, Greta Garbo or Princess Victoria of Savoy paraded. .
Before you forget them
The journalist Silvia S. Alexandrowitch has a very pleasant style of the various changes in fashion in the last century: from trade to show, from playful culture to merchandise, from expression of defiance and liberation. To slavery on social networks… This is a compilation of articles that he published in Fashion & Arts.
Revelar of Vivian Maier: La historia no contada de la niera fotografia
Writer Ann Marks reveals the deeply intelligent, empathetic and talented woman who hid behind a cold facade: Vivian Maier, a woman who worked as a babysitter and who secretly carried her hobby Also for photography, which posthumously received worldwide recognition.
Sofia’s world
Jostein Gaarder’s famous book for initiation into philosophy, which has sold millions of copies worldwide since it was published in 1991, is the basis of this comic book adaptation published by the publisher siruela. It all starts when Sofia returns from school one day and finds a letter in her mailbox asking her if she wants to take a correspondence course in philosophy.
