Javier Cercas and Xavier Bosch, among the best authors of a record record | News from Catalonia
San Giorgio It started with a good meteorological forecast and stops of stops and sales, and therefore it was: the 26 million euro bind are exceeded, two million copies of books and seven million roses sold. Also from the morning some names played to guide the expected lists of the successes of the day. The best books that lists him that the publishers of Gremi d’and have published in recent weeks, without surprises, have coincided with those on the 23rd day. According to the provisional data of the Llibre de Catalunya, in charge of the sales of las sales Diagonal Manhattan (Column) of Xavier Bosch, In case we return one day (Planet) of María Dueñas, The madman of God at the end of the world (Random house) de Javier Cercas y Between paradise and apocalypse (Rosa dels Presers) by Xavier Sala I Martín.
Other authors with high sales data during the day were Joël Dicker, Sílvia Soler, Estel Solé, Roc Casagran, Manel Vidal Boix, Toni Crunyes, Freida McFaddden, Idefonso Falcones and James Clear. In children’s literature and young people, the best sale of the day was Titó. Excursion to the legend of Sant Jordi by Cristina Jiménez Carbó e The legend of Sant Jordi by Emma Martínez in Catalán e The Hunger Games 5 – Dawn in the harvestby Suzanne Collins, Accelerate in red, De Illna Zubkova y Quicksilver of Callie Hart in Spanish.
The corporations of libraries and editors insist on the fact that these are a provisional list, which will not be completed with the sales data of all the factories and stops on the street until next week. In addition, these lists represent “about 5%” of sales. “The institution that brings together the corporations and associations of publishers, books, distributors and graphic communications in the States that this year the party” was again preceded for a week of good sale “despite the Holy Week in the middle.
Like all lists, the expectation for the names of the best part books in such a mediated part generates some disputes and rivalries in the sector. Dueñas says that it is “a book festival and not a competition”; Bosch asks: “If we calculate the most listened radio stations or the collection at the cinema, why shouldn’t we do it with books?” Like them, fences, Vidal or Solé have accumulated long lines of readers who wanted a dedication in the city center all day.
According to Laura Huerga, editor of Raig Verd and director of the Pen Català, the names that guide sales hide diversity in publication: “The trend is that 5% representing the best books.” The publisher was critical of “refined confusion between the commercial product and literature”, but was happy with the competition on the stops in the city center: “This year the influx was intense but more stunning than in the other years”. He coincided with her one of the classics of Vienna, Blanca Pujals, who claims to have received “more people and during the day”. According to the publisher, the atmosphere was not so festive and optimistic from before the pandemic: “People returned from Easter holidays and brought it with energy”. It also coincides with the insistence on diversity: “As an publisher of classics, my prognosis was that this year the sales would decrease, because the large editorial groups have invested in the campaign to promote the authors of the media as never before, but it was not so”.
