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Melcior Comes
Melcior Comes (Sa Pobla, Mallorca, 1980) has a degree in Law and Literary Theory. His literary work has earned critical and public acclaim, and many of his novels have received the most prestigious awards in the Catalan literary scene. It began in 2003 with L'aire i el món, Ciutat d'Elx Prize and L'estupor que us espera, Documenta Prize, 2004. Then came titles such as El llibre dels plaers immensos, Ciutat de Palma Prize 2006, La batalla de Walter Stamm, Josep Pla Prize 2008, Hotel Indira, Sant Joan Prize for Narrative, 2014, or Sobre la terra impura, a work that marks a...
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Happy Summer and better reading!
Vacations at last! Noone can work in this heat. The time has come for a technical stop, a cool swim and a good read in the shade of a Ginkgo. If you are reading this it means that you are from the book business, because only bookworms come to this page. But since you are here, we take the chance to invite you to browse our pages where you can choose the books by your favorite topics or search among the list that we have chosen on the main page where you will find a little of everything because in the world of book is not all just novels.
We’ll be back on Sept 1st. We kindly recommend you to stop, read and rest! See you around!
On Books and On World Days
There are more World days –also called International Day of– than there are days in the year, but curious enough we found that among the Asterisc books we could find at least one per day! Since that would make the occurrence a boring game, we've made a selection of some May causes that interest us the most. Here is our choice:
8/5: International Ovarian Cancer Day. Reading: 100 Questions About Cancer, by Salvador Macip
9/5: Europe Day. Reading: Ukraine, Mon Amour, by Carles Torner.
12/5: International Nurse's Day. Reading: The Hospital of the Poor, by Tània Juste
17/5: International Internet Day. Reading: The Disconnected, by David Nel·lo
17/5: (bis): International day against homophobia and transphobia. Reading: Collection of stories Totis, by Bel Olid
18/5: International Museum Day. Reading: Endurable Paradises, by Sebastià Portell
20/5: World Bee Day. Reading: Evolution by Eduard Altarriba and Sheddad Kaid-Salah
PS. In the meantime, we share the latest books released these days so you can check them out.