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This silent graphic novel was produced during the ’24 heures de Angoulême’, a competition in which the only rules were that the action takes place in a museum, that it had 24 pages and was drawn in 24 hours. I believe I did it in 19.
A thirty-five-year-old writer leaves the city to return to his parents' home in a village in the south of Catalonia, under pressure from the crisis. There he finds himself both a native and a stranger, in an inverse trajectory of discoveries. When he is asked to make the opening speech at the local festival, he wonders how to summarise his relationship with the landscape and its history.
The godfather’s garden tells the story of two children who watch television all day long. Their grandfather tells them that there is nothing better than gardening, so they get down to work and start preparing the land, planting seeds and enjoying the countryside and the magic of nature. In the end, the children are very grateful to their grandfather and prepare a surprise for him...
When she agreed to go out with that boy, Marta did not realise that she was entering hell, or that from then on, it would be as agonising to go forward as to try to escape. PASQUAL ALAPONT's hair raising novel is written in the style of a thriller, complete with psychopath.
Is there a formula that can change people’s destinies? There is an extremely powerful force that can change our perception of the universe and our own lives. Until now no one has been able to explain it. Albert Einstein worked it out in his time using a mathematical equation, but for some unknown reason, he decided it must be kept hidden.
It is the year 1229. Serious events in the Abbey of San Benito cause deep concern in the Crown of Aragon. A series of novices have suffered mysterious attacks in the kingdom's first all-female convent.
Ten stories in which music, wit and lyricism combine to create a dreamlike atmosphere that will create in the reader a sensation similar to that evoked by the stories of Clarice Lispector. Maths and the music of life create the sonorous timbre of this first book of stories by Almudena Sanchez.
This book tells the story of Narciso, Lirio and their three daughters: Rosa, Margarita and Violeta. All the characters have the names of flowers, and live in L’Albagés when there were still no cars, or motorbikes, or computers... is that difficult for you to imagine? Well, this book will help you.
"La amante imperfecta, a mixture of noir literture, love story and contemporary social critique, enthrals readers with its words, its brilliant descriptions, the texture of its characters, their lies, longings and ambitions.
A unique story which goes beyond fiction to show us the events and protagonists of one of the most violent moments of the 19th century in colonial Africa, an episode which inspired Henry Rider Haggard to write King Solomon’s Mines.