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'The Ratcatcher starts with one of those film scenes that cement you to your seat as soon as the lights go down. This is a stunning novel. It traps, conquers, seduces the reader right to the end.' —Pepa Roma, Premio Azorín 2011, author of Mandala and India Express. Do you think you can overcome the past? Ángel is forced to return home when his mother falls ill.
Gesualdo Bonocompagni, a young Sicilian doctor, based in the Court of Carlos II, is sent by the Marquis de Esquilache to the north of Spain to spread knowledge of a new surgical practice: caesarean section on dead pregnant women to avoid that their children are buried alive inside them.
In the summer camp there's going to be a football tournament for the much desired Pipistrelli grant. Max is going to do his level best to win it, but luck isn't on his side: captain of a team of beginners, he has to deal with Saúl's dirty tricks both on and off the pitch. What Max still doesn't know is that there's more than one way to win.
Our heroine is very worried because she doesn't know what to draw. But all her friends do. So there's nothing for it but to think, and think about it… And thinking and thinking, she suddenly gets it: she'll definitely draw the best place in the world for her. But what is it?
Iris is thirty-six and she is shattered by the death of her parents in an accident. A grey and cold afternoon, when the world seems to have no sense, she begins to walk the streets trying not to return home. Just when she is thinking of doing something mad, she discovers a café she hadn’t seen before.
Two strangers have to share a three storied house for a few days, both insisting on maintaining order and making themselves indispensable. A woman anxiously awaits the arrival of a younger man to liberate her from her boredom and frustration. Scott returns to England after his polar expedition but nobody welcomes him.
It is no cliqué to say that beauty is not skin-deep. If you want to enjoy life, you have to like yourself ,and nothing is better for achieving this than a method which reinforces Self-esteem by means of Intelligence and Decisiveness in order to attain, above all else, Happiness.
"I was born a Barcelonian and I'll die a Barcelonian. There's nothing to compare with wearing the blue-maroon shirt. Twelve years after arriving at Barcelona I had to leave to find happiness. If I couldn't be happy in football I couldn't be happy with life. I wanted to smile again. Turn the page. But the future is not written yet. I'll write it." Bojan Krkic.
'Pol is 29 and has Down's Syndrome. He's like a little child but in a big clumsy body. Mum complains all the time and says that everyone says Down's syndrome kids are so sweet and gentle, but her son is the exception, and then she sighs. And it's not just that he's not sweet, he's also cheeky and stubborn and he throws tantrums. And he's a real pain.
When Count Abrino is about to die, he asks his best knight Bodius to bring his daughter Auria back to the castle. Three years before, accused of witchcraft, the young girl had decided to shut herself away in a solitary tower known as the Crow’s Nest. Even though Bodius manages to encounter the beautiful young woman, the count dies before the pair return.