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New York, end of the 20th century. A young Spanish couple discover the great city, the contrast between the glitz and glamour of cinema and the harshness of daily life, the fragility of a personal identity still in construction and the greatest pain of love that seemed invincible.
We have all the necessary ingredients for a great story: a princess (Talía), a castle, three fairies (Leonarda, Rafaela and Angelines), an evil, really evil, witch, a curse and even a prince (or several - who knows?!…).
'How many lives would we have to live to find out whether or not we are deceiving ourselves?' This is the question Tomás asks himself as he goes over his last encounter with Gloria, the woman with whom years ago he had a destructive relationship, and who a little over a week ago re-appeared in his life in a rather disquieting fashion.
Atop the black mud of Auschwitz that swallows everything, Fredy Hirsch has built a secret school. In a place where books are banned, young Dita hides under her skirts the fragile volumes of the smallest, most remote and clandestine public library that has ever existed.
Selva is a special little girl who has blue skin and comes from a country where there is nothing but sand. She has a rusty bicycle with no bell, but with a great story hidden in its saddle. Many years later, the protagonist remembers how their friendship with Selva began, the story of the bicycle and the great adventure they experienced together when they decided to go in search of the desert.
The failures of old age are at the centre of this new collection of twenty stories by Sergi Pámies. Individual and collective fatalities, the capacity to survive them and the varied emotions they cause are described with the obsessive style that characterised the author's previous books and which has engaged thousands of readers.
After the disastrous outcome of the Armada, Baltasar de Zúñiga manages to reach the Spanish coast accompanied by Juan Lobo, his bodyguard and comrade. Their mission: to update the king. After completing it, they will be able to rest.
After the unexpected re-issue of her uncle's rather unsuccessful novels brings her a small fortune, quiet, sensible Kate Salomon lives a peaceful life in a house in Ribanove which she shares with two female friends.
Maruja the witch is always getting into trouble. The latest was when she asked to be transferred to Hansel and Gretel's house of chocolate. What will the bossy witch Mandona do when she finds out that she has turned the story upside down?
Anabel is a very special witch because she was born the day the Moon kissed the Sun. Because of it, she is the only witch who can fall in love. To prevent Anabel from falling in love, his aunt Filipa kept her as a prisoner for years until a good day Anabel manages to escape. She travels by a ship to a big city in another continent.