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Anna, a graphic designer by chance, independent by necessity, introspective, constantly calculating, keeping the balance, putting the meter back to zero in order to keep going on. And Manel, Nel, Nelet, her companion, so close and so distant, so much need and so much buried rage.
A novel about the abnormality of daily life of a group of friends who try to live and love as if everything were normal. Lluís Calvo writes an unusual love story that seeks a singular epic genre and hides in the corners of each and any of us. But it is not just about that, it is also about surviving change, darkness, fashionable bars and obsessions. In the end, it is about surviving daily life.
A young English girl, a ship's captain, an Eskimo and an ice spirit meet one magical night. Fate takes them on a fascinating journey as they flee from an anthropologist obsessed with capturing mythical beings to turn them into museum pieces.
The skeleton Huesecitos wants to be a footballer like the people made of flesh and blood. Dismayed, his family tries to make him see that this is not possible for a skeleton. But even so, why not try ? This book is part of the collection entitled "El Baugul dels Monstres" (A Chest Full of Monsters), a series of ten titles designed to dispel fear through reading.
Some books are extremely dangerous. Under a veil of knowledge they conceal superstitions and heresies that go against the word of God. But one is especially perverse. It is a book kept in secret by a few men which becomes an obsession for the Inquisition and which, at the end of the 15th Century, generates the greatest persecution ever carried out against a book and its owners.
This silent graphic novel was produced during the ’24 heures de Angoulême’, a competition in which the only rules were that the action takes place in a museum, that it had 24 pages and was drawn in 24 hours. I believe I did it in 19.
A thirty-five-year-old writer leaves the city to return to his parents' home in a village in the south of Catalonia, under pressure from the crisis. There he finds himself both a native and a stranger, in an inverse trajectory of discoveries. When he is asked to make the opening speech at the local festival, he wonders how to summarise his relationship with the landscape and its history.
The godfather’s garden tells the story of two children who watch television all day long. Their grandfather tells them that there is nothing better than gardening, so they get down to work and start preparing the land, planting seeds and enjoying the countryside and the magic of nature. In the end, the children are very grateful to their grandfather and prepare a surprise for him...
When she agreed to go out with that boy, Marta did not realise that she was entering hell, or that from then on, it would be as agonising to go forward as to try to escape. PASQUAL ALAPONT's hair raising novel is written in the style of a thriller, complete with psychopath.
Is there a formula that can change people’s destinies? There is an extremely powerful force that can change our perception of the universe and our own lives. Until now no one has been able to explain it. Albert Einstein worked it out in his time using a mathematical equation, but for some unknown reason, he decided it must be kept hidden.