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Marco Buitrago is a free-lance journalist who survives by writing scientific articles, until his feature on the international human genome project brings Marie Alida Karwecki into his life, and the old lady changes his whole existence.
In the prison infirmary, Fede Cortés remembers the roller coaster ride of his life. Prime suspect for multiple murders, he tells a story, written according to the conventions of noir, that plunges us into a delirious atmosphere where the line between good and evil is blurred and happiness, a scarce and finite resource, is distributed as arbitrarily as justice.
Children and adults alike, we all have goals we dream of achieving. But what happens when they remain out of reach? It can be frustrating, right? Using her hilarious 'magic' recipes, Gala, the heroine of this story, shows us that nobody is born knowing everything and that being wrong doesn't mean failure, but a chance to learn.
The symbiosis between the author and his main character reaches the point where events and not a few roles are reversed. The first three people in this singular tale switch back and forth like the viewpoint of a swimmer. All that is needed is a complicit reader to close the circle and complete the trinity…
A relationship of dependence between two characters who will seduce you from the very first page. A story of one of the most common illnesses of the 21st century: anxiety. Héctor Amat is an actor who suffers from anxiety after having accidentally witnessed the murder of a young girl. His anxiety blocks him and prevents him from remembering what has happened.
The use of sound to promote wellbeing—be it physical, mental, emotional or spiritual— has antecendents as as far back as antiquity. What is more, in the majority of religions sound is a means used to explore and further consciousness, situating as it does one's sprituality in a state of optimum receptivity.
One night, Víctor leaves his house to go and discover Buenos Aires at night, unexplored territory for him, aiming not to go home until the sun comes up. After a few tense situations for a teenager like him, he ends up accepting a prostitute's invitation to have a drink in some dive. What happens between then and sunrise will mark Víctor's life forever.
The story of the abuse of a young girl is told with extraordinary literary force in this uncomfortable and necessary book. A single gesture was enough to turn her into a helpless calf. She was small, too small to know that she had been put in a place that was not right for her. The abyss filled her sea-like eyes and her gaze was full of shock. Her house became a nothing place.
La tierra de los últimos is a novel of manners set in rural Andalusia in the mid twentieth century, with touches of etching, sometimes rough, sometimes smooth, but always a gentle charm, a poetry that touches the soul.
Maretonhampstead has the longest name of any village in England but it was soon to be known for a more extraordinary event: the legend concealed by the tomb of Mary Jay. One night, 11 year old John Wilcox and his cousins decide to camp beside the grave to discover its secret. The night will be longer than John could have imagined and will have serious and terrible consequences.