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The heart of Madrid becomes a place that beats with each step taken by the characters of this story. The novel perfectly exemplifies Spanish society in the last years of Franco's dictatorship and the struggle for freedom by a generation of brave women who fought to make themselves heard.
Young Lidia's world is torn apart by a brutal and apocalyptic plague. A circle of fire and smoke surounds the city she lives in; nobody seems to be safe. Lidia, together with her father and her brother Carlos, will begin a long journey to find her mother; a journey with no turning back, after which she'll never be the same again...
Would you like to meet a number that’s cheekier than a mouse on top of a piece of cheese? Well, don’t waste another second: open this book now! Soon you’ll learn how to make shadows with your hands, you’ll hear what an eight lying on its side has to tell you, you’ll applaud wildly when Claudio scores a goal, you’ll enjoy a lively chat with Mr.
A group of jobless people gets together every day in the park opposite the job centre where they met. One man always shares out his cigarettes, but one morning he doesn’t show up and they discover he has been murdered. Susano ate lunch with him the day before and is suspected of his death.
María, one of the heroines of this story, learns that her aunt Matilda is coming to live with her family. After adapting to the change this represents for her, she starts to enjoy her aunt's company and peculiar habits. In the course of a single day she discovers all they can share and the secret her aunt is hiding.
Poisoned apples, pumpkins that turn into carriages, olives that can be transformed into oil to light up the darkness... where would our famous fairy tales be without plants? Hand in hand with Snow White, Cinderella and Ali Baba, biologist Aina S. Erice invites us to discover the wonderful world of plants.
This is a book of very short, unconventional, chaotic stories about marital relationships in which ‘There is not a single word too many or too few, the narrative is measured to the milimetre’ (Luis Eduardo Aute).
After Madres e hijas, this new anthology of stories, edited by Laura Freixas, explores another crucial realm of experience for women: their friendships.
It's impossible to think of the Alhambra and the Palacio del Generalife without recalling Irving, and even those who haven't read 'Cuentos de la Alhambra' have heard of them or have smelled their sweet aroma via other channels: by osmosis or, as Rubén Darío, a great admirer of the Nasrid enclave, would say, by unconscious reflection.
A jungle filled with animals and the occasional human being, where some live through exciting, at times dangerous situations, all of which are narrated by Horacio Quiroga with a large dose of humour.