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Pedro Ribera, a successful writer, gets a call from a notary. A woman he doesn't know, Berta Astomi, has just left him a generous sum of money in her will. But there is one condition: he must write a novel inspired by Berta's life in a short time.
Babur wants to learn to read and write, to make friends and play with them in the playground. But because he is a giant, everyone is scared of him and, furthermore, he can't go to school. He feels very lonely, and every afternoon he watches from his garden as the local children enjoy themselves singing, laughing and dancing... Until one day he meets Isabel, his first great friend.
The plot takes place at two levels, two stories that evolve in parallel. The first one takes us to the beautiful world of the Sufi era, when Baghdad had a caliph and the Arab culture was in its golden age. The second takes us to a closer world, one of violence and ignominy, the Baghdad of today. The bombarded Baghdad, the Baghdad in decline.
The murder of a woman at the hands of her husband leads to concern among her neighbours: why has such a quiet, seemingly peaceful old man committed such a crime? Who were they? Why were they hiding in the village? What were they running away from? And above all: is it true that this same man, fifty years ago, killed the woman's first husband?
Do you know how quickly you can ruin someone's life? In two seconds, the time it takes to share a photo on WhatsApp. You already know this, you've had the talks on cyberbullying, it would never happen to you, it's boring to keep hearing about it, right? That's exactly what Glauca thought. What was wrong about sending a photo to her boyfriend if they loved each other very much?
From a seemingly simple encounter at sea comes the inner conflict of each of the characters. Shame, fears, rejection... There is only one thing to do to resolve it: go down into the depths, look for hidden treasures, open our eyes wide and look closely. Perhaps in this way we will discover what we are capable of, how wonderful life is, and what really matters.
Imagine a story that combines paradise-like islands, undying love, pirates, mysterious women, and even cameos from the great jazz legends. This novel has all this and more.
The history of the United States of America is one of the most engaging topics in popular history, but we must never forget that history is almost always written by the winners.
Most of the eight stories that make up Bar de anarquistas take place in the anonymous and grey capital city of a Spanish province where some children explore the mysterious corners of their school, a happy man is devastated by insuperable boredom, a college lecturer mortgages his life for a woman whom he hardly knows, a local civil servant writes ignored masterpieces, a couple of lovers discove