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Written in an appealing style and with a social and moral backdrop, this novel is full of intrigue and action with a psychological depth, as well as excellent descriptions and dialogue. The author has succeeded in performing a balancing act between literary quality and entertainment, with a flowing, lyrical prose that makes for easy reading.

'The Year of Los Saicos' uses sharp humour to paint a portrait of the internal workings of Liman society in 1964 (the year the eponymous rock group first came to prominence), trapped between respect for hypocritical rules and the degradation of its members. A society in which, as one of the characters observes, 'everybody lies', and the act of lying has become a questionable survival tactic.

When the antique dealer and ancient books seller Artur Aiguader is found dead in his shop in Barcelona, his step-son and writer Enrique Alonso flies to the city to take charge of Artur’s things.

Training and knowledge development in Higher Education will occupy a privileged place in social and productive development agenda. Naturally, this training, its quality, its contents, as well as the ways of generating knowledge, will require approaches, conditions and resources for educational practice, up to quite a large extent, different from the current ones.