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“Black Bread is an exceptional novel. Written in striking literary language, it describes post-war life in Catalonia through the eyes of a young boy who doesn’t understand the compromises the adults have to reach in order to survive.” (Peter Bush)
Every year, hundreds of thousands of babies are born. Many of them are the first offspring of couples joining the thrilling world of bringing up a child, a world in which men want to play a moe active role. But they very often do not know how to do this: no one has taught them anything.
Simón finally has a diary - a real one, with hard covers and a lock to keep his secrets as safe as if they were made of gold. Now Simón can hide his experiences from his nosey brother Julián. Julián won't be able to read the story of Simón's friendship with Héctor, a boy with autism who has recently joined the class. Nor about how Simón treats him: naturally and without prejudice.
The Marquess of Torregrossa reads an article in the newspaper that worries him. It's Tuesday the 24th of March, 1964. The ex-legionnaire Francisco de Paula Goyanes would rather take a sip of liquor than go back to the barracks where he lives; he just wants to be left in peace. When he drinks he ends up talking more than he should and this is dangerous.
Humankind is naturally restless. It loves unostentatious beauty. It seeks knowledge tenaciously. And one of its preferred ways to satisfy these desires is to travel: seeing strange places and the pleasure of the novel. On my travels I have seen the world around me as an album of geopoetic landscapes.
"Yellow Bird" is a children's picture book for children aged three and upwards. It is the story of a character named Yellow Bird who is a bird who cannot fly. While most of his friends, all the other birds, go on amazing journeys around the world and send him postcards from different places, he cannot fly.
Mikel Giokoetxea, better known as Goiko, was in his day one of the best homicide investigators, though he has had to scrape a living as a private detective since being forced to leave the Ertzaintza, the Basque police force, when his life, reputation and marriage were all ruined by the false accusation that he belonged to a paedophile ring.
How to turn a “passionate love” into an “amorous life”? How can one maintain the initial enthusiasm in one’s daily life? This is the problem that all lovers have had to solve in their own way, with mixed results.
"There are words that fall slowly, drop by drop, in a constant assault on the heart. They were never intrepid or courageous, simple, ordinary words… "Words of rain" is the story of Teo, an indigenous woman born in the Peruvian jungles of Ucayali, who has to travel to Asturias with her husband.