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In the early 1990s, the death of a young boy changes the lives and routines of a group of villagers on the Mediterranean coast who in the last forty years have already lived through huge transformation. The unexpected tragedy reveals suspicions that grow into speculations, but the answers are far from simple in a village where everybody knows everybody else.
With an attentive and subtle gaze and an unaffected emotiveness, Paloma Díaz-Mas explores the meeting of two stories, two pasts (that of the family and the collective past, the political and the personal), which remains embodied in objects, accounts and memories.
What do dogs dream about? Maybe looking like their owners? Having fleas and being able to make fire? The inhabitants of Lútaca wake up one day transformed into dogs; including Baltasar Bellaterra, who can't accept his new nature and discovers that losing your humanity isn't so different from losing a loved one.
Nothing is as it seems, says Teo, who, in keeping with this phrase, conceals his own name. He is 27 years old, still lives with his mother, suffers from a mild form of lupus and worships Lenny Bruce. Shut up in his tiny room, he practices escapism until one day the rain drives him into a bar, where he meets Lena.
STAY ALIVE Antonia Scott is not afraid of anything. Only herself. NEVER WAS But there is someone more dangerous than her. Someone who could defeat her. SO DIFFICULT The Black Wolf is getting closer and closer. And Antonia, for the first time, is scared.
Rachel and Anne are twin sisters who come to the world together and face life together. They will invent their own language, create a common imaginary world and develop a unique complicity. If this relationship can be a strong protection against the gaze of others, it can also be dangerous when each of them looks for herself in the reflection of the other...
Adrian is a strange teenager. Not just because of his autistic behaviour but because he is a seventh son and in the tradition of the mountains that means he is a werewolf. This, and the strange fits he suffers at night, earn him incomprehension on all sides.
Blas Rueda´s text is accompanied by colourful, highly detailed illustrations by Blanca Millán which combine to tell the story of Lola who hears a noise a bit like a moo one afternoon while she is sitting at the table drawing pictures of moons and stars. She then discovers that 21 cows have escaped from their cowherd and their home in the sewing box and are now scattered all around the house!
In 1922, together with several other friends, Manuel de Falla organised the first 'Deep Song' festival. Through his involvement in the festival, aimed at saving and demonstrating the quality of Flamenco, Lorca came to the conclusion that this form of music is the best of Andalisian culture. The experience left its mark on his literary style.
This impassioned and passion-inspiring biography of Federico García Lorca sets out to bring to light aspects of the poet’s life that have been ignored or distorted for more than seventy years, finally giving the poet’s homosexuality the place it deserves for a proper understanding of his literary work.