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This is the story of a revolution carried out in anonymity with a bodkin as its only weapon and a boy as its hero. The youngest son of the Brailles, a family of leatherworkers, has an accident that causes him to gradually lose his sight. His tenacity and that of the people around him leads to a string of adventures and discoveries that take them much further than we could ever dream.
The young Rutona tries to reconstruct the life of her mother Rut with whom she shared a life that was both free and intense. Rut drove a tow-truck on the Catalan highways through the seventies, eighties, nineties and noughties. It was man's work done by an extraordinary woman, lover of freedom and of her own feelings.
Clara, 35 years old, divorced and with two children, has a life as normal as any other woman, until one day something happens that changes her completely. When you start to read 'Los caracoles no saben que son caracoles' don't make any plans, because you won't be able to stop until you finish it. You will laugh and you will cry, sometimes at the same time.
Inspector Cito (diminutive of Inspector because he is very small), the detective who is famous throughout the world for his wit and his love for Spanish omelette, works for the Department of Strange, Mysterious and Super Difficult Cases with the help of Chinese sergeant Wee Chou Fear (playing with the name to sound like “Without fear”).
These tales, so real that some details have been eliminated for coming too close to the truth, belong to the genre known as micturition literature, and are so starkly realist they can be slipped into its subgenre – laxative text. In fact they revel in it, squirming in such delight that the publishers initially wanted to print on paper more suited to its delicate function, but the ink ran.
It all began on the 19th of May, 2008, on the Eastern edge of Annapurna, when Iñaki Ochoa de Olza fainted at 7,400m above sea level. The only person he had with him, his Romanian friend Horia Colibasanu, quickly sent out a call for help on the radio, initiating an epic rescue mission, drawing in fourteen Himalaya-climbers and tens more people in Nepal and other countries around the
The Skies of Curumo is a story constructed like a house of cards. The lives of five friends, the urban landscape of Caracas, incessant rain, the urgency of scavenging animals, evil that corrodes, and the signs of the decline of a country that could not see what was coming, all collide together. Chirinos is a ruthless storyteller.
Toni feels that he is a writer who never writes and a teacher who never teaches. He grew up reading adventure stories such as the Famous Five series by Enid Blyton, which offered him something 1970s Spain could not: unsupervised fun and freedom of movement, in other words the boundless world he yearned for in the vital transition to adolescence.