Empar Moliner

Un grup feminista que organitza una xerrada contra la discriminació, un home que s'enfada amb el seu nòvio després de somiar que l'enxampa al llit amb un altre o una parella que assisteix al curset obligatori per pares adoptius. Els tretze contes de "T'estimo si he begut" són retrats, entre còmics i amargs, de la vida moderna, escrits amb un estil tan rigorós com desvergonyit que la crítica ha qualificat de "turbulent, descarat i ple d'enginy". "Moliner és capaç de retratar la beneiteria sense excedir-se en el perfil ni passar-se en el maquillatge: tal qual." Anton M. Espadaler, "El País" "Àgil i enginyosa." Michael Eaude, "The Times Literary Supplement" "Empar Moliner se'ns emporta gairebé a tots per davant. La frescor i versemblança dels diàlegs, la desimboltura de la llengua, i la ubicació descarada en el present reporta un festí de detalls reconeixibles." Òscar Pàmies, "El Periódico de Cataluña" "Amb un llenguatge fresc i directe i amb molt d'humor, Moliner porta les petites situacions quotidianes al límit." Bärbel Neuman, "Lift Stuttgart"

T'estimo si he begut

Wie ein Film von Pedro Almodóvar zwischen zwei Buchdeckeln In Felis Kosmetikstudio treffen die komischsten Figuren aufeinander: so zum Beispiel die damenbärtige Sozialarbeiterin Tere, die endlich ihre Unschuld verlieren will, Felis Ex-Mann Fede, der an einem Theaterstück schreibt, oder der einfältige Bodybuilder Onessifor, der gerade Buddha in einem Schinken entdeckt hat.Ein erfreulich unverschämter Roman, der mit übermütigem Sprachwitz und einer hinreißenden Situationskomik den Leser in den Salon Feli zieht.

Roman

Salon Feli

"Fast, precise, hilariously timed and mercilessly honest, the stories of Empar Moliner lay bare every pretension ever to have offered comfort to the middle class psyche. From the zeal of a mothers' group staging a world record breastfeeding attempt to couples role-playing their way into parenthood at a third world 'adoption workshop', every well-meaning fad and right-on gesture is brilliantly observed and astutely exposed." "Moliner's sharpest weapons are saved for relationships, interrogating love for the competitive sport it really is. Here we meet partners so affectionate they only communicate through baby-talk, or lovers so addicted to arguing even acts of God can't wean them off it. When a woman discovers she can teleport into the bodies of others and thereby sleep with any man she desires, we shouldn't be surprised when ultimately sex itself becomes a turn-on. So delicate and fleet-footed are these stories, even the most single-minded protagonists win us over with a raucous charm that makes us love them and hate them in equal measure." --Book Jacket.

I Love You when I'm Drunk

Jordi Punti

Marta Orriols

Borja Bagunya

Turner OLLE

Carlota Gurt

Jordi Nopca

Llucia Ramis

Francesc Seres

Gonzalo Torne

From the boy who won't stop growing in the working-class Guineueta neighbourhood on the outskirts of Barcelona, to the woman returning to Barcelona after living for some years in London, this anthology explores the city of Barcelona from a myriad of perspectives. In this new addition to Comma's Reading the City series, ten stories about Barcelona by ten of its most prominent authors are translated from both Catalan and Spanish into English for the first time.

The Book of Barcelona

Fast, precise, hilariously timed and mercilessly honest, the stories of Empar Moliner lay bare every pretension ever to have offered comfort to the middle class psyche. From the zeal of a mothers' group staging a world record breastfeeding attempt to couples role-playing their way into parenthood at a third world ‘adoption workshop’, every well-meaning fad and right-on gesture is brilliantly observed and astutely exposed. Moliner’s sharpest weapons are saved for relationships, interrogating love for the competitive sport it really is. Here we meet partners so affectionate they only communicate through baby-talk, or lovers so addicted to arguing even acts of God can’t wean them off it. When a woman discovers she can teleport into the bodies of others and thereby sleep with any man she desires, we shouldn’t be surprised when ultimately sex itself becomes a turn-off. So delicate and fleet-footed are these stories, even the most single-minded protagonists win us over with a raucous charm that makes us love them and hate them in equal measure. ‘Deft and ingenious’ - Times Literary Supplement ‘With a fresh and direct language and great humour, Moliner takes the logic of small, everyday situations to their limit’ - Lift Stuttgart

I Love You When I'm Drunk

David Constantine

Arnon Grunberg

Ágúst Borgþór Sverrisson

Jacques Réda

Larissa Boehning

Emil Hakl

Amanda Michalopoulou 

Aldo Nove.

Dalibor Šimpraga

Decapolis is a book which imagines the city otherwise. Bringing together ten writers from across Europe, it offers snapshots of their native cities, freezing for a moment the characters and complexities that define them. Ten cities: diverse, incompatible, contradictory in everything from language to landscape. In Amsterdam every Friday night, a lonely woman cooks for her men, a circle of middle-aged bachelors. In Barcelona, a self-regarding poet tries to capture the essence of the city in an eleven-word lyric. In Reykjavik, an unemployed journalist wanders through the deserted buildings of the newspaper he once wrote for. In all cases, these are cities in states of transition: Zagreb in the shadow of the Balkan conflict; Manchester on the cusp of social and economic change; Berlin with half its industrial buildings abandoned like the Mary Celeste. The ultimate untranslatability of these cities experiences is never in question, and yet through these fractured, isolated glimpses chance encounters, snatches of conversation, local TV bulletins something quite unlikely begins to emerge: a commonality grounded in the fleeting and the momentary, a continuum, perhaps, of urban experience *'Deca-Polis': Greek for ten-cities.

Tales from Ten Cities

Decapolis

Empar Moliner

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