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A lovely book in which the authors, grandmothers and grandfathers who teach, talk about their experience of their new role in the family: 'The love of a grandparent is a simple love, which arrives without asking permission and settles down inside you'; 'Without realising it, my grandchildren have challenged me to do something I thought I was no longer capable of'; 'That vision of my daughter, n
Raul has been going through an dull patch for some time. Isolated in his music, serving the record-shop clients who are in search of a soothing balm or alienation, leaving for tomorrow what he could say today, surviving his abusive relationship with Carla and burdened with the feeling that he's dragging six times his weight through life.
What is current western society like? What will it be like? Are we as individuals ready to face our downfall? In the present day, politicians are asking for volunteers to work in libraries. They will soon disappear. In the present day, we sleep to forget. We will soon sleep to work. You Won't Be Anyone straddles two parallel stories, one in the present day and one in the near future.
Catalina doesn’t like goodbyes. She has a strange feeling every time the sun goes down, her balloon floats away, a tooth falls out or daddy turns out the light, but she will come to understand that some things have to go so that other, equally nice, funny and comforting ones can come.
With time, Daniel has found his place in the world, but on this night, in the deserted station of Portbou, while he awaits the arrival of a friend, memories come flooding back. Daniel's story interweaves his own uneventful life with that of Sofía Durán, tarnished by a secret tragedy which reflects recent European history.
Diego would never have chosen his parents. That may sound like a harsh statement, but after we witness his feelings of powerlessness and loneliness, as his one year old baby sister burns up with a fever, on a night when the little Mafalda is caught between life and death, we feel some sympathy for the adolescent.
Monica is 17 years-old and is just about to finish school. She has summer ahead of her and she is not sure what to do with the rest of her life. Monica has three hobbies: music, books and burning the photos that she takes of lovers in the park outside her house.
'That's what friendship should be. Those invisible ties with a person you haven't seen for fifteen years but you feel like you just spoke to them yesterday.' Kim and Laura meet at university. They come from different worlds. Seductive and carefree, he is the son of a hotelier from the paseo de Gracia in Barcelona.
We, who have written nothing yet, who have not managed to finish anything, had already taken on the role of writers, and we couldn't have been anything else. Life was our route to writing, our daily activities the prelude to our future and definitive occupation: writing. The non-writers came out into the streets in search of the necessary lines, prepared to become real writers. In the same city, Sala was falling in love with the most beautiful woman in the world and a story of escapes and encounters was starting for him.
Who are the Indignant Ones? What are they protesting about? What do they want? These and other questions are answered in this book by four voices committed to the 15-M. That day, 15th May 2011, a call transmitted through social networks brought together thousands of people in nearly 60 Spanish cities.