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Inspector Cito (diminutive of Inspector because he is very small), the detective who is famous throughout the world for his wit and his love for Spanish omelette, works for the Department of Strange, Mysterious and Super Difficult Cases with the help of Chinese sergeant Wee Chou Fear (playing with the name to sound like “Without fear”).
These tales, so real that some details have been eliminated for coming too close to the truth, belong to the genre known as micturition literature, and are so starkly realist they can be slipped into its subgenre – laxative text. In fact they revel in it, squirming in such delight that the publishers initially wanted to print on paper more suited to its delicate function, but the ink ran.
It all began on the 19th of May, 2008, on the Eastern edge of Annapurna, when Iñaki Ochoa de Olza fainted at 7,400m above sea level. The only person he had with him, his Romanian friend Horia Colibasanu, quickly sent out a call for help on the radio, initiating an epic rescue mission, drawing in fourteen Himalaya-climbers and tens more people in Nepal and other countries around the
The Skies of Curumo is a story constructed like a house of cards. The lives of five friends, the urban landscape of Caracas, incessant rain, the urgency of scavenging animals, evil that corrodes, and the signs of the decline of a country that could not see what was coming, all collide together. Chirinos is a ruthless storyteller.
Toni feels that he is a writer who never writes and a teacher who never teaches. He grew up reading adventure stories such as the Famous Five series by Enid Blyton, which offered him something 1970s Spain could not: unsupervised fun and freedom of movement, in other words the boundless world he yearned for in the vital transition to adolescence.
Once upon a time, many years ago, there was an old man who dreamed of flying like birds do: beyond the clouds, crossing the Earth from one end to the other… Flying so high that he would be able to touch heaven with his fingers. This is the story of Silvano, an old fisherman who spends the last years of his life in search of his dream… Because dreams are worth the effort.
Carmesina is a special little girl. As we all are, deep down. One day, thanks to the intervention of a very unusual Black Cat, she discovers that she has a gift that she should develop. Without knowing it, thanks to him, Carmesina will bring an accent of colour to a grey, glum world.
In this novel a man and a woman attempt to move forward with an absolute love, for which they must face everything and everyone. Destiny has already traced an ending for them, against which they both rebel. Women have also had to shake off destiny as it tried to submit them to their roles as mothers, wives and daughters.
This book places armed conflict in the broad frame of reference of the confrontation between those with kratotropic leanings (towards dominating others) and those with eleutherotropic leanings (towards surrendering to others’ control) that characterise relations between groups of human beings.