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Two strangers meet on a train that has no specific origin or final destination. It is the year 2024 and two thousand wagons make up this enormous iron serpent. The journey between Bagdad and Lisbon is a long one, but the train doesn’t stop to pick up or drop off passengers.
Lola lives a life filled with books and café conversations, languid siestas and projects for constructing a better Spain, but in 1936 the day comes when life is pure resistance.
Audrey´s life has been turned upside down. She has left her lover with whom she shared a home since University. She has quit her job, tired of never receiving enough recognition for her work at the Museum. But only days later does it dawn on Audrey that she has thrown it all away. She has lost the love of her life as well as the career she had always dreamed of.
When Primitivo Dátalo replies to an advertisement in which the writer Mauro Ledesma Peris seeks a secretary, he is unaware that he is entering a labyrinth of horror. After suffering in the service of the author, Primitivo sets out to gather together the testimonies of other victims in the form of an anthology.
Úrsula is an eleven-year-old girl with a rather complicated life. She has changed schools several times and her mother is on the run after stealing a painting from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.... No... That's not right. Úrsula is an eleven-year-old girl who goes by the name of Rebecca and hates magicians because one of them made her mother disappear.
Who now remembers Sara Amat? She was just thirteen when she disappeared one summer night and was never again heard from. There was a single news item the following day in the Diario de Terrassa, and a great deal of speculation and many rumours.
Raimon writes for the radio and lives with his brother Blai who was traumatised by an accident he had in the forest when he was small and who now lives a very simple life working in an occupational therapy workshop. One day, Raimon is offered a job by Celia, a mature lady who has always listened to his stories.
The myth of the grail provides the title for this book about the possibility of perception beyond the physical world. The occult and the invisible are objects for the imagination, which in the Middle Ages was seen as a visionary experience granted by God. The first chapter opens to a vision based on a confrontation between an older culture, with a mystic such as H.