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‘Un lugar llamado Fracaso’ is an internal brainstorming exercise in the form of 23 short stories about life, literature, dreams and failure. Because life is a continuing failure to find any kind of success, a failure in which the characters in the stories that make up this collection survive while waiting for a better future, which sometimes comes and sometimes does not.
A man weary of everything, a motorbike, a landscape of breathtaking beauty. With these ingredients Miquel Silvestre set out on a journey through Africa. From Nairobi to Capetown, from Maseru to Maputo, he travelled 15 000 kilometres of jungle, savannah and desert: ten countries, bribes at frontiers, rivers, mountains, antelopes, 3000 stars and the Skeleton Coast.
Arturo Cifuentes reappears one day in the narrator’s life like a ghost from the past. He is an old university friend with whom the narrator shared a flat in New York. Seventeen years have passed since the last time they met, Cifuentes has divorced and returned to Spain to take up a post at the faculty where they studied.
The Mother of Archimedes has decided to bring the past closer and gather the Mothers of some of the protagonists of her favourite stories to tell us about their sons and daughters. Einstein's Mother takes tea with Robin Hood's, the Ogre's and the Ugly Duckling's. Cleopatra's mother is there along with King Gaspar's, Sherezade's and Marco Polo's.
For centuries, popular stories have helped to answer the questions that man has asked himself. Stories demonstrate the complexity of emotions, offer means of combating adversity, give hope, consolation and courage, and preserve human values. This selection of 36 stories is just a sample of the rich heritage of stories and legends from the 5 continents throughout human history.
After the death of her mother, Gabriele returns to the village where she spent her childhood summers. Waiting for her there is her father, with whom she has not spoken for years. Together they set out to fulfill Greta's last wish: that the three most important people in her life — her husband, her only daughter, and her sister-in-law — scatter her ashes in a place where they have been happy.
A hair is not the strangest thing you might find in your soup. A fly is not the strangest thing you might find in your soup. Do you know what it would be really strange to find in your soup? "A surreal and delicious entertainment."
This is the question posed by four lonely souls who meet each other by chance in the Café Turner, the only place open in a coastal town in the middle of winter: Imagine that your house is on fire and you have time to save only one thing which signifies to you everything that is worth living for.