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Barcelonta, Barcelona, the early sixties: anarchist urban guerillas are still alive and kicking, a headache for Franco's political police. The former Belgian Congo, in the same decade: European mercenaries are to be found in the war torn country. And some of those mercenaries are Spanish and their reasons for being in the Congo are as surprising as their personal stories.

When his mother dies, Óscar travels to Berlin to take charge of her belongings. He hasn't had word from her in years because, in fact, she was living with another woman and had turned her back on her son. And neither can he inform his father, a stranger he has seen on only a few occasions, the author of successful books on the search for happiness.

This is a cookery book for all tastes, based on ingredients that were once well-known and popular but are now in danger of being forgotten.

Homero is fifteen, the only child of a wealthy Barcelona family who has been left alone as a result of the Spanish Civil War. His life is transformed into a fight for survival, full of loneliness but also opportunities for self-discovery.