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Fanny is Careles Soldevila's most famous novel. Due to both the personal characteristics of its heroine – an independent, self-sufficient young woman – and its modernity, seen in the device of the interior monologue, this novel represents a change in the Spanish literature of the period.
Damien has worked for 35 years as a cinema projectionist. He is used to seeing the world through the films that have passed through his hands and thinks and talks like the film characters who have impressed him. Until one day, his familiar world is changed forever by the news that the cinema is to close.
César and Mara, a couple about to finish their degree in business administration, are attacked in the street but survive unscathed thanks to the appearance of a stranger, Mikel. An art student, Mikel explains to them how he scared the aggressors off after making them believe the police were on their way.
Ramonet is a Gypsy who lives in the South of France. On the outskirts of a town in Ampurdan, Catalonia, he buys a second hand truck and sets out to recover the traditional nomadic life of the Gypsy people, the Manouche, which is the clan or ethnic group to which he belongs.
Valeria Falcón is an actress with something of a reputation who visits Ana Urrutia, a has-been, every Thursday. Urrutia suffers Diogenes syndrome and does not have a penny to her name. Her decline overlaps with the emergence of Natalia de Miguel, a young aspiring actress who catches the eye of the cynical Lorenzo Lucas, the alter ego of Addison DeWitt.
Norma, a 40-year-old married woman with a secret, meets Nacho, a young biologist, on a plane, where for the first time ever she is unfaithful to her husband. From this point on, a game of dependency and passion arises, which Nora turns into paintings for her next exhibition. 'There is nothing more deceitful than falling in love.
Nora, a married woman of forty with a secret, meets Nacho, a young biologist, on a plane and is unfaithful to her husband for the first time. This encounter forms the basis of a play of dependency and passion that Nora converts into paintings for her next exhibition.
This book displays a general vision on the evolution of the studies on international fascism, as well as the development of Spanish fascism from its beginnings until its inclusion in Franco’s dictatorship.
What Fede wants most in the world is to be a pirate, but he’s got a long way to go before he becomes one. He’ll have to fulfil certain requirements which he thinks are vital: bathing himself, not getting scared in bed, getting a parrot and, most importantly, losing a leg and swapping it for a wooden one.
This story recounts half a century in the history of a small city in the north of Spain, from the postwar period in which the protagonist arrives there to work on the railways, up to the present day. Successive generations witness such major events as the fire that engulfed the city.