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Legend has it that humans originally possessed four legs, four arms, two faces and a single head, and that the female and male sex coexisted in them; but Zeus, threatened by the strength of these beings, cast a lightning bolt at them, so dividing them in two and condemning them to live without their half and to wander in search of it to be complete.
Claudia - a journalist, born in Ovieda but brought up in Argetina from an early age - returns to Spain to start a new life. She settles in Madrid and begins to work in the Unicorn bar, where she meets Edgar, a an upper class Mexican man who is also escaping from a tumultuous past.
Shadows in Time is a painful story of love, courage and hope. In 1949 a family of immigrants settled in Barcelona in search of a better life and trying to fulfill their dream. Encouraged by the promise of a better life, far from the rural poverty of their native land, they confront the harshness of what is for them an unknown world.
In our children’s hands, hats and rivers regain the importance that fiction asks of them. The elements are tamed and sing their own praises and above all they adapt to the true needs of representation. History ends and fiction begins, without any confrontation. Writing does not steal nor does it demand anything, it simply employs that which it finds useful, without establishing a conflict.
The Quantic Secret and Awakening of our Energies
Jorge Blaschke's previous book, Beyond What You Know, uncovered the relation between alternative realities, quantum physics and spiritual perception.
The sales assistantant of a pharmacy in one of the Madrid districts is raped and murdered. Inspectors Pacheco and Duarte, on the trail of a psychopath recently released from prison who is hanging around the area, receive a tip-off that he might have been threatening her and had visited her the week before the murder.
Under the Skin is a psychologically introspective, noir novel based on a real-life story: in 2005 the body of an unknown prostitute was found on the Eje Transversal train line; she has a strange erotic tattoo. Coincidentally, or otherwise, the tattoo is the same as that of a man killed in Darnius a couple of years before.
Why does everyone run away as soon as they see me? A hilarious picture book reflecting on habits and customs by seeing what happens when animals and humans swap roles.
An original, amusing and tender novel that speaks to us about loneliness and of what it is to be a refugee. I'm called Omar and I'm a nut. My father was a gardener and my mother smelled like cinnamon. They were both eaten up by the sea just before they got to the beach. I saw them disappear whilst I floated away in that little nut shell along with a bunch of strangers.
SpiderCat is a very special cat. He has a superpower but he doesn’t know it. It’s the same for almost all of us: we’re special, different, unique...and we all have at least one superpower. What's yours?