Trotalibros Celebrates 5 Years with Special *La Guardia* Edition

Jan Arimany's Andorran publishing house Trotalibros marks its fifth anniversary with a limited special edition of *La guardia*, the Greek poet Nikos Kavadias's sole novel that launched the venture on 20 January 2021.

Starting from scratch without publishing experience, Arimany compiled a list of overlooked titles he had discovered by chance—works either out of print or never translated into Spanish. These included *Sunset Song* by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, *Hard Rain Falling* by Don Carpenter, *Persecució* by Toni Sala, *The Ice Palace* by Tarjei Vesaas, *Giovanni's Room* by James Baldwin, and *Look Homeward, Angel* by Thomas Wolfe. Kavadias's maritime tale, with its poetic undertones amid sailors' rough dialogue, became the inaugural release. Arimany recalls the moment of certainty upon reading it, wondering if its seafaring atmosphere suited an imprint symbolized by a lighthouse.

Despite launching amid the pandemic's tail end, Trotalibros has published 51 titles over five years, establishing an Andorran-rooted presence with reach into the Iberian market and Latin America. The lighthouse logo originated from a dawn sighting of Favàritx lighthouse during a nighttime sail off Menorca, sketched on scrap paper. "Literature tells stories that invite travel—hence 'trotalibros'—while challenging mental boundaries and opening windows to uncomfortable realities," Arimany says.

The anniversary edition, available from 21 January and limited to 1,500 hand-numbered copies, goes beyond a reprint. It features a revised translation, Kavadias's three short stories—"Li," "De la guerra," and "A mi caballo" (the last two previously unpublished in Spanish)—a character guide, an editor's note, and glossy ink details of waves, letters, lighthouse, and beam on the cover. Its design inspired the "Piteas" collection, named after the novel's ship and the protagonists' purgatory-like setting.

This year, Trotalibros honors early authors with new releases: another from Víctor Català following *Soledad*; works by Elizabeth von Arnim (*Vera*, *Expiación*); Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Scottish trilogy (*La canción del ocaso*, *Valle de nubes*, *Granito gris*); and Toni Sala's *Escenarios*, concluding his "Trilogy of Death" after *Persecució* and *Los chicos*. The sole living author in the catalogue, Sala holds special affection from Arimany. Further titles are promised, potentially including a non-fiction line, national authors, and completing Konstantin Paustovsky's memoirs or Thomas Wolfe's *Del tiempo y del río*.