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Do you think that you know your partner? Would you do anything for him? Do you want to discover his hidden side? Do you believe you conquered him solely with your friendliness and charm? Well, it’s all lies! All men, however sensitive they may appear are sexual beasts: first you have to conquer them in bed, and everything else will come afterwards….
Roger Ventós, an internationally famous operatic baritone, had somewhat strange origins. He was born in 1939 in the French city of Sète, but at the age of 15 his mother sent him to Barcelona to live with his uncle Lluís Ventós, a stagehand in a music hall in El Paralelo.
Juan Antonio Masoliver Ródenas writes that nostalgia is a mirage that must be combatted because it takes up and idealises a past that most probably never existed, while constantly compelling us to give it shape.
The Arid Sky tells the story of Germán Alcántara Carnero: the story of his time, the men and women who lived at his side and the non-existant plateau where Monge distills the essence of a savage Latin America.
Barcelona, 1912. A terrible episode shakes the city: the disappearance, sale and rape of a twelve-year-old girl. This very dynamic novel presents a wide-ranging group of people, all trying to survive in the same city, forming a human geography in which the two protagonists try to build their own identities.
Patricia is a young, up-and-coming catwalk model. During a flight to a job, she gets to know Viviana, the woman in the adjoining seat, who warns her to be careful as someone around her wants her dead.
"Lord Hazelrod's explanation was not only plausible but also beautiful in its Biblical simplicity. Whether or not it could be proved to be true was unimportant." Unfortunately sceptical members of the Royal Society do not share the faith of young Trenton in his uncle's audacious theory.
In the town of Tristonia, it's always raining tears, and the Tristonians always keep to the same routine. Then one day brings unexpected visitors: The Circus of Kisses. Nobody other than Tristonians has ever been to Tristonia, so there is a great curiosity to learn more about the new arrivals. Why are they called the Circus of Kisses? Will they be able to make Tristonians happy?
Jota is a journalist and has been awarded a medal for his admirable work. His reality however, could not be further from this image, because as a result of an unfortunate event in his personal life, he is about to endanger not only his career but also his physical and mental health.
Adolfo is a writer who has taken many lovers into his bed and a lot of whisky into his body, and these excesses have brought him to a crisis point. Emma, his editor, an uninhibited and unscrupulous woman, offers him a weighty contract to write a novel imagining a reencounter with his ex-lovers.