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The early 20th century: a lawyer without a future, a frustrated anarchist, an ex prostitute, a clairvoyant, and an unemployed teacher. The owner of a guesthouse has the felicitous idea of setting up a circus company, and each of the guests tries to bring out the best of their talents to achieve a presentable performance.
'This is the story of Victoria the cow: the cow died and that was the end of the story.' That's how the popular story goes, and it's only slightly longer than the story of the dinosaur from Monterroso.
Nacho is ten years old and he's just moved to a new flat. His parents are delighted with the new area, the new neighbours… Especially with the lovely old lady downstairs, who seems to be the perfect grandma everybody wants living in their building. But Nacho doesn't quite agree. The old lady frightens him, she throws him vicious looks and whispers nasty things when nobody can hear.
'La venganza de las cajas' tells the story of Eva, a young journalism student who has just arrived in Madrid from Galicia, and Porto, an old man who lives alone in the Vallecas neighbourhood who Eva looks after in exchange for a room. As soon as she moves in, Eva discovers that Porto is a slovenly, obscene old grouch with an unhealthy obsession with television.
Victim to the current crisis, to past ones and to his proverbial bad luck, Leonardo Expósito takes a radical decision: he mortgages his mother’s house and enrols in a prestigious business school. There he intends to hobnob with other businessmen and get back on the road to success, while hiding the downfalls of his professional career and his past life.
Federico. This name acquires through the book some connotations that little by little clarify an end sometimes surrounded by many characters, relationships and events
Someone died today, and I’m responsible. But nothing ever happens just like that. Lots of other things happened first. Like the first time I found myself in front of a mirror. The summer I chose my real name. The year at secondary school when I decided I’d had enough of everything and everyone. The casting session where I got chosen. The success of my TV series. All my followers.
After some years without seeing her family, a woman travels to the United States to visit them: her brother, who is married to an American, and her mother. During the 18 days she spends with them, she tries to reconstruct the past and history. To do so, she uses memory and recollections (always tricky), but also an attempt - previously failed - to put some of that history into words.
This singing method collects the experiences carried out with the children of the Choir School of Montserrat, the result of years of work by the author.
Some chapters are intended to provide information about the Choir School and its history as a summary of its music curriculum.
The Intelligent Way is the foundation of the Intelligent or Smart City and is usually formed of four layers (physical infrastructure, sensors, nets and services), improving traditional life (originating in the Roman road or way), which serves only as a passing place and does not exhibit any type of 'intelligence'.