A marvelous novel by one of Spain's most important contemporary authors, in which a clerk in a Barcelona office takes us on a romping tour of world literature.

Tsvetanka Elenkova was born in Sofia in 1968. She has published three poetry collections - The Stakes of the Legion (1995), Amphipolis of the Nine Roads (1998) and The Seventh Gesture (2005) - and a book of essays on the Balkans, Time and Relation (2007). Her work has been translated into 12 languages. She is also a critic and has edited the literary magazine Ah Maria, the socio-cultural magazine Europe 2001 and the Greek literary magazine Helios. She translates from English, Greek and Macedonian. She is the Bulgarian Writers Association's representative at the International Writers and...

Living Dead Lovers follows the life and times of famed psychic-medium, half-Romani gypsy, Valentina 'Cabbage' Moone, from her mute infancy trawling the roads of Europe to a fiery-tongued, hard-drinking, speed-loving clairvoyant with a complete disregard for human life, including her own of late... Psychic-medium Cabbage brings forth more than she can chew with womanizing dead racing-car driver, Marty 'Magma' Molloy, who doesn't want to give up the chase. A twisted love-affair never meant to be. Necrophilia: that's what the sceptical call it. Romantics call it the yin-yang love between being...

From the author of "Low Voices" and "The Carpenter's Pencil," the book of short stories that set him on his way and revolutionized Galician literature when it came out at the end of the 1980s. For the first time, Galician prose dealt with the Galician landscape in a modern context, uniting tradition and modernity, placing the poetry of landscape alongside the irony of modern society. In "One Million Cows," a collection of eighteen short stories by Manuel Rivas, the first he published, a boy tries to find out if his cousin is really a battery-operated robot, a sailor who has been shipwrecked...