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Guillermo hates reading, but the rest of his family love it. So, living with them is a daily torture - like having to go to the library once a week, pick a book, read it and write a summary for class. What a pain! Then, one day, he discovers a tiny book hidden behind another far fatter book, The Zippoli Tribe. It's short, it'll take no time to read, he thinks.
Paul of Tarsus once appealed to Philemon on the behalf Onesimus, an escaped slave. We know this from what is the shortest of Saint Paul's epistles. However, we have no idea whether Philemon took any notice and welcomed the escaped slave into his home, or if instead, he ignored Paul's pleas and punished Onesimus as the law dictated.
The attractive professor of literature Victor Vega decides to accept the highly unusual proposal put to him by the widower of the writer Hugo Mendoza: to investigate whether her husband is still alive, despite the fact that his death has been legally certified, and to discover who is sending a new manuscript by the dead author every 3rd of December.
They were only in their early twenties at the time. A group of friends who met up in Bar Kronen and enjoyed their youth through sex, alcohol and drugs. Occasionally they flirted with death and there was even the odd casualty. A lot of time has passed. Twenty-five years, to be exact. Now they have jobs, and they don't live too badly, some have married and have families.
In these eleven, extraordinarily unique stories, the author offers us human experiences of unusual intensity. The last time an exile sees the the city he grew up in. The last time we see the person who was perhaps destined to share our lives, but who, by some cosmic error, will not.
The early 20th century: a lawyer without a future, a frustrated anarchist, an ex prostitute, a clairvoyant, and an unemployed teacher. The owner of a guesthouse has the felicitous idea of setting up a circus company, and each of the guests tries to bring out the best of their talents to achieve a presentable performance.
'This is the story of Victoria the cow: the cow died and that was the end of the story.' That's how the popular story goes, and it's only slightly longer than the story of the dinosaur from Monterroso.
Nacho is ten years old and he's just moved to a new flat. His parents are delighted with the new area, the new neighbours… Especially with the lovely old lady downstairs, who seems to be the perfect grandma everybody wants living in their building. But Nacho doesn't quite agree. The old lady frightens him, she throws him vicious looks and whispers nasty things when nobody can hear.
'La venganza de las cajas' tells the story of Eva, a young journalism student who has just arrived in Madrid from Galicia, and Porto, an old man who lives alone in the Vallecas neighbourhood who Eva looks after in exchange for a room. As soon as she moves in, Eva discovers that Porto is a slovenly, obscene old grouch with an unhealthy obsession with television.
Victim to the current crisis, to past ones and to his proverbial bad luck, Leonardo Expósito takes a radical decision: he mortgages his mother’s house and enrols in a prestigious business school. There he intends to hobnob with other businessmen and get back on the road to success, while hiding the downfalls of his professional career and his past life.