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Vega has heard a story about a little bird who treated his partner badly. Do you want to find out what happened? Do you know why there are little birds that behave like that? Do you want to know what the little bird did? Gender violence is a serious social problem that transcendes all geographical, social and temporal borders. There are many manifestations of gender-based violence.
A brilliant satire about a writer who changes languages. An immigrant from eastern Europe is admitted to a Belgian psychiatric hospital and submitted to a linguistic reinsertion therapy to cure his ailment: not writing in his mother-tongue. But he's not the only patient in the asylum.
In Los parientes de Ester, Luis Fayad enters the social fabric of Bogota in the late sixties and early seventies to tell the decline of a family that clings to tradition.
The story of one of Spain's most iconic brands, from its beginnings in a small workshop in the Baleares to its establishment on the main shopping streets of the world. Camper is without doubt one of our most global brands and Pablo Adán goes behind-the-scenes at the company to tell us how the success and international prestige it currently enjoys were achieved.
The wealthiest family in an inland city is composed of the Wife, her Husband, their two young children, the Wife's mother and Amalia, the maid. In the large house where they live, everything is impeccable but appearances can be deceptive.
The chance discovery of an unusual, apparently worthless painting in the rubble is, in fact, the tip of the iceberg of a collection of extremely valuable, eccentric, irreverent works of art that a group of enlightened people hid during the War of Independence in a corner of the labyrinth of subterranean tunnels of Valderrobres, a town in the Tereul Maestrat.
'Nobody loved the Pissimbonis. They lived in an ivy-clad house at the top of a hill, far enough away from the other houses for everyone to think of them as living outside the town. The family comprised many brothers and sisters and nobody even knew if the paterfamilias and his wife, Ignacio and Martina Pissimboni, were still alive.
From his award-winning restaurant El Celler de Can Roca (Girona, Spain), the young rebellious creator of desserts surprises us with a book full of his original creations, organised by the four seasons of the year.
Vicente Friman is the new kid. It’s happened before, so he’s not too worried. But this time is different. This time there’s Barbara, the leader of the Protectors. Or so she thinks. And there’s also the Apaches, a band of teenagers who are terrorizing the neighbourhood. They all want something from Vicente, but he doesn’t quite know what. And he’s getting sick of it.