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What happened to Bárbara Molina? Her body was never found and no suspect was ever caught. A phone call disrupts the destiny of several people: a policeman on the verge of retirement, a mother who has lost all hope of finding her disappeared daughter, and a girl who betrayed her best friend.
In this book, Álex Rovira gathers the quotes and ideas that have most seduced him along his reading life. Author of international renown, he has managed to select an admirable number of impressions which denote experience and vital wealth.
Adult life has separated the attractive Palas from her younger half-brother, Hector, who lives in London. But a family occasion will reunite them, obliging both to consider why they seem to be condemned either to be completely separated or completely united, because the possibility of a prudent distance does not exist for them.
Clarence has grown up listening to stories about the African country which his father Jacobo and his uncle Kilian emigrated to in the decade of 1950 to work in a cocoa plantation.
Aynor, the tyrant who governs the light-filled northern zone of the planet Palmyra, plans to take control of the dark southern zone, currently inhabited by violent rebels, and become the most powerful man on the planet. But his plans are disrupted by Zephyra, his own daughter, and in particular by Jano, a young man destined to make a legend going round Palmyra come true.
During the winter of 2010, in a small inland town on Mallorca, Anna and Marina meet again after not seeing each other for fifteen years, to sell a windmill and bakery they have inherited from a woman they never knew. They are two sisters with very different life stories. Anna is well-off, has barely left the island and remains married to a man she no longer loves.
Origami is the art of paper folding. According to Eastern philosophy, Origami brings calm and teaches patience to whoever practices it. In the West the practice is inspired by the creation of ‘nothing or ‘almost nothing’. It is an educational art through which people can develop their skills for artistic and intellectual expression.
Paper folding, or origami (oru: fold, kami: paper) is the ancient art of representing the things we see around us by making folds in paper. Origami is first and foremost a pastime and a diversion. Furthermore, working with our hands helps to develop our skills.
Ana met the writer Carlos Pacheco when she was scarcely a teenager and shared twenty years of her life with him. Amoral, passionate and brilliant, Carlos was, for better or worse, the most extraordinary thing that happened to Ana. After an intense, torturous relationship, Ana wants to be normal. This goal will be the true adventure of her life.
Childhood has not been easy for Pedrito Ochoa. He has grown up in a hospice run by extremely strict nuns, without contact with the outside world and the great transformation Spain underwent in the 1970s. His destiny will change when he is unexpectedly adopted by his grandparents and he begins to study alongside the children of the most important families during the end of Francoism.