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A love story between an old manipulator and a beautiful visionary artist. An unclassifiable ballad, at times a parody of the noir genre, at times a family saga with an unknown narrator. A sarcastic and poignant testimony of our global, indeterminate, tragic, hilarious world in which humanity turns up when it’s least expected, under cover of money or in environments with no control or space.
The story of the love between an old manipulator and a beautiful visionary artist. An unclassifiable ballad, at certain times a parody of the noir genre, at others a family saga that nobody knows how to tell.
A novel work which, in a readable form, compares the meals of the great media chefs with everyday dishes from our own cuisine in order to show the similarities between the science and methods of both worlds. Mousses, air dishes, spherics, emulsions, gels, hot ice-cream… tortillas, croquettes, chips, pears in wine and grilled steak are some of the examples analysed in detail.
The streets of Paris are the main stage for the protagonist of this novel, a young Catalan painter with an extraordinary life.
While trying to make it as an artist, he encounters a wide array of surrealist characters who make him experience a number of strange situations. He also discovers love, sex, the authentic bohemian life, lack of communication and many other phenomena.
Villanueva de la Aguilas, Seville, carries on through the grey post-war years between the novenas of the devout and the repression of the victors. Currito lives there with his sisters, existing on the family income and a grocery shop selling black market goods. His everyday routine is disrupted when he hears that Rosa, La Culona (The Bum), who taught him how to write, is now a prostitute.
My name is Lorena and I don't know if I should say that I'm sixteen or not sixteen anymore or rather that I was sixteen and will continue being that age for ever. My name is Lorena and, for about a month and a half, I've been dead.
'If we ever meet again, call me Gwen' is the story of the lurid and vile biography of its unclassifiable protagonist: Chowder Marris, a scriptwriter with such bad luck that he can't even sell one of his scripts.
In 'If I Were A Giant' a little file of ants is the perfect excuse for a little boy to start imagining. In this children's book, Guridi brings us closer to how we all felt as children faced with an enormous world. Furthermore, he offers us a fun game that can continue after the book is closed. If you were a giant, what would you like to do?
Without an established program, without a plane or maps, but always heading west, with these assumptions departed J. M. Romero on his round-the-world trip. With the company of a log. Ahead were the crossings of the Atlantic and the Pacific on board of freighters, a sailing boat in Indonesia, the Australian desert and the Siberian winter.
After her parents get divorced, Marina feels nothing will ever be the same again. The only thing that hasn't changed is that she still spends her summer in the Camargue, the coastal region of France where her grandparents live. But this summer will be truly unforgettable.