Books published by FUM D'ESTAMPA PRESS

In Wilder Winds, Bel Olid presents a stunning collection of short stories that draw on notions of individual freedom, abuses of power, ingrained social violence, life on the outskirts of society, and inevitable differences.

How does one experience things from the viewpoint of the other sex? It is this question that has led to Vildot‿s creation of Ruth, the genre-defining story of a sex change told by the protagonist through a series of letters to an anonymous friend.

Seven Deadly Sins, seven essays, seven writers, one translator.

In the eight stories presented in The Song of Youth, Montserrat Roig (Barcelona, 1946-1991) employs languageas a weapon against political and social "dismemory", enabling the stories of those silenced by the brutal Francoregime to come to the fore. Feminist, critical but always lyrical, Roig's writing gives shape and meaning to thehuman experience.

The best dystopian fiction ever written in Catalan

In 1837, at the height of the Carlist Wars and a time of conflict between the past and future, a young Prussianman crosses the Pyrenees to fight for the 'Order'. Finding himself trapped in the ruins of an abandoned city,his bewilderment at the war and what it means increases. Friendship, family, religion and politics: everythingis distorted, transformed or destroyed. The Others oscillates masterfully between humour and tragedy and is anovel full of music, eccentric characters and extraordinary scenes.

Joan Maragall's poetry is finally available in English translation. Thanks to Puppo's fantastic work, readers in English will be able to enjoy the work of one of the most important European writers of the 19th and 20th century.

Six stories about Christmas and winter from award-winning writer, Jordi Llavina. Llavina's stories conjure up ghosts from the past, old loves and distant memories in six hauntingly written tales that focus on our relationships with our loved ones and ourselves over the Christmas period.

Written in nine chapters separated into three blocks, Narcís Oller's The Madness is one of the first literary pieces of work to aim to truly analyze the social and genetic causes and results of mental illness. Told through the eyes of an anonymous "narrator" character, The Madness tells the story of a young revolutionary called Daniel Serrallonga and his gradual deterioration into madness and delusion. Set against the backdrop of the political crisis that ripped Spain apart in the mid to late 19th century and laid the foundations of the Spanish Civil War, The Madness is a fascinating study of mental health within both rural and urban Catalan society.As relevant and entertaining now as it was when it was first published, this lively translation brings this fantastic piece of literature to new, modern audiences while drawing parallels with some of the 19th century's greatest English language writers such as Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy.

Written in the form of a diary that runs from 1926 to 1928, English Hours is a delightful account of a Catalan in the UK during the inter-war period. In it, Soldevila writes endearingly of the country and people that he meets while providing us with an invaluable "foreign" look at this critical period in 20th century Great Britain.