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Israel works in a small concession of a shop set within another shop, on the ground floor of the La Vaguada shopping centre. He used to be a dreamer, a true romantic with his head in the clouds, but now, after reading a self-help book that has promised him he'll become a better person, he has adopted a fluid style of life.
In 1965 there were a string of mysterious murders in the north of Spain that were never solved. They might have been directly linked to the sacrifices that the long-forgotten '“Snake Path” demanded of whoever dared to walk it. Now, 30 years later, the events are being repeated, and a young police inspector will have to pursue the troubled mind trying to relive this macabre game.
It is 1936, a time of political and artistic agitation. Fascism is gaining strength in Europe. In Spain, the civil war is about to break out. Jonás leaves Madrid and travels to Cadaqués (Girona) in search of calm, but an atmosphere of mystery engulfs the small fishing village. Its inhabitants are terrorised by the painter who lives on Port Lligat beach.
The pyramids are shrouded in enigma, but Egypt has other equally magical places that are still unknown, like the labyrinth of Hawara, a mysterious underground maze that conceals the truth about grand former Empires.
The Authorities have decided to remove one day from the calendar and the date chosen just happens to be the sixth of October, the day Edu was born. He's suddenly been stripped of a birthday - stuck at ten years old. And of course he isn't taking it very well. Although it isn't the first time that this has happened (why do you think February has only 28 days?) - that's no consolation to Edu.
Korea, the middle of the war. One night in 1951, Flaco (Skinny) Bentley, a recruit in the United States 187 Air Transport Squadron, parachutes onto the battlefield, eight thousand miles from home. During the war, he experiences death and horror, but also comes across a Colombian angel, an officer-artist who draws tanks with his typewriter, morphine traffickers and sex.
On grey days Adri makes his way through the city with a big sack. There's something mysterious about him and he seems to be searching for something. Who is Adri? What is he searching for? Adri is a young man who, using a wide variety of tricks, tries to make everyone he meets on his travels smile. Each smile won becomes his greatest achievement.
Investigating their respective family histories, Gloria and Marcel meet in Riofrío, a small mountain town which in the past was not spared the turmoil of civil war.
Lazaro was born in Salamanca, right by the Tormes river. He was very poor and had to take care of himself from a young age. He didn't live in a happy world, but he was clever and cunning and he found ways to get by...
This is not a book about the world. It is not a book about social networks, or television, or Hispanic or North American literature. Nor is it a book about Twitter or the power of the image. A multifarious and dynamic essay, driven by a single preoccupation: how we view our times.