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Once upon a time, many years ago, there was an old man who dreamed of flying like birds do: beyond the clouds, crossing the Earth from one end to the other… Flying so high that he would be able to touch heaven with his fingers. This is the story of Silvano, an old fisherman who spends the last years of his life in search of his dream… Because dreams are worth the effort.
Carmesina is a special little girl. As we all are, deep down. One day, thanks to the intervention of a very unusual Black Cat, she discovers that she has a gift that she should develop. Without knowing it, thanks to him, Carmesina will bring an accent of colour to a grey, glum world.
In this novel a man and a woman attempt to move forward with an absolute love, for which they must face everything and everyone. Destiny has already traced an ending for them, against which they both rebel. Women have also had to shake off destiny as it tried to submit them to their roles as mothers, wives and daughters.
This book places armed conflict in the broad frame of reference of the confrontation between those with kratotropic leanings (towards dominating others) and those with eleutherotropic leanings (towards surrendering to others’ control) that characterise relations between groups of human beings.
Mexico City: the actress Pamela Dosantos attained stardom due to her famous thighs and a big, generous heart through which Mexico's top politicians have passed. The appearance of her savagely mutilated body leads to a crisis with unimaginable consequences for the returning PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) .
Musical theatre is the thread that runs through this novel in which a serial murderer outwits the Special Brigade of the Central Madrid precinct. A veteran inspector returns to the brigade with the express aim of trying to put a stop to the crime wave in the capital's theatres. To do this, he has to stir up his own past, in which lies the key to the identity of the murderer.
While reporting on a Velázquez exhibition at the Prado Museum, the misanthropic and mordant journalist Mariano Larro and the intrepid and seductive photographer Fran Kapa witness a series of inexplicable murders and become the sole suspects for the crimes.
The purest of oral African traditions, known as Nisintory, evoking the collective action of telling and listening to stories, displays all its magic and luminosity in Fumilayo Johnson's stories.
While spending a weekend at home with his family, Sergeant Major Bevilacqua receives the news that the body of the mayoress of a town on the eastern coast of Spain, whose disappearance had been reported by her husband, has been found on the beach by some tourists.