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The mutilated body of Mayra Cabral de Melo, a well-known stripper, is found, and the detective Edgar 'Left-Hand' Mendieta is chosen to investigate the case. He has personal reasons for finding the culprit. The investigation will bring him even closer to the world of the 'narcos', who have started a war against the Mexican state.
Manel Loureiro surprises us with a thriller set in Galicia, a mysterious land of legends. The body of a young woman is discovered at the foot of the mythical Puerta de Alén (the Alén Doorway), and, disconcertingly for the investigating officers, she has apparently been killed in an ancient ritual.
“The Door with Three Locks” is attractive, accessible, entertaining, fascinating, surprising and by turns exciting and cute. It is a great introduction to the astonishing subject of quantum physics. (Catherine Forrest)
After receiving a mysterious message, Niko takes a new route to school and discovers a house he's never seen before. By solving a puzzle he is able to enter what turns out to be a strange place where universes are born. There's a cat that appears and disappears, and it has teleporters.
Two forty-something Colombians meet in a street in Paris and launch themselves immediately into a frenetic conversation, which, against the backdrop of the revolutionary movements of the 60s, particularly the Colombian Freudo-Sartro-Marxist variant which has never before brought into narrative, provides the reader with a vision of the fleeting nature of things, the doubling of life and death, t
In a cosmopolitain and prosperous Western city, a strange phenomenon occurs which seems initially to be nothing more than an irritant but which quickly comes to represent a more insidious threat, capable of overturning the most intimate convictions of the citizens.
While Maruja the witch is updating her book of recipes for cooking tender young children, Hansel and Gretel happen to drop by her house and end up locked in a cage. Luckily for them, Tom and Tere, a couple of builders specialising in repairing chocolate houses are passing by.
We are accustomed to architects' omnipotence; their deification, however, goes back to the dawn of history. In Mesopotamia, Enki, one of the three great gods of the Sumerian pantheon, was considered an architect-god, charged with ordering the world and teaching men how to continue with this task, putting together and dwelling in the world.
José Antonio Marina tackles a topic which is central for families and schools: authority. But what authority? The permissive education practised in recent times has produced a situation in which children refuse both orders and suggestions.
The plot of The Empty Region transports us from the camps of sacred warriors in Pakistan to the security corridors of the CIA and FBI. It is a fascinating puzzle filled with historic characters, among them Osama Bin Laden and George W. Bush, as well as public servants who understand the ins and outs of tragedy.