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The night was black And I slipped away Down the road With the stolen star in my pocket’ At the top of a skyscraper, in the vastness of the night, someone takes hold of a star; the moment they put it in their pocket, their odyssey begins. An extraordinary poem by Pablo Neruda, brilliantly reflected in Elena Odriozola’a images.

The memoirs of one of the most important literary editors in Spain.  'Oficio editor' is a declaration support for a profession as old as the book. Muchnik responds to the imminent digital revolution by defining the insurmountable and irreplaceable qualities of the editorial profession:  to protect the author from their errors and the reader from theirs.

Saira has never liked the way she looks. She is blonde, has blue eyes and everyone calls her Kharami, that is to say bastard. She lives in Afghanistan with her sister, mother and grandfather, and believes herself to be eight years old. When Ramin – a cruel man and supporter of the Taliban – comes into her life, her family is dogged by misfortune for ever. But not everything is lost for Saira.

These are uncertain, unstable times, with the desire for a new republic and repeated attempts to overthrow the monarchy of Alfonso XIII. Joaquín Córdoba is urgently summoned by his friend Mateo, and he reaches Toledo as a characteristic fog masks the city's millennial splendour from view.