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This novel tells of the relationship between a young councillor from Cádiz, brilliant, combative and spirited, and an older writer from Madrid, apparently calm and with as few illusions as prejudices.
Ever since Otto was born it hadn't stopped snowing in Immer. No one knew why. At first, everyone thought it was just a very long winter, but then they decided it was some kind of magic and they stopped hoping for spring. But one day, Otto discovers the reason for all this, and this forces his to make a choice about his future. It will be a diffficult decision that he has to make alone.
Owané is a story for the whole family, written so that parents can read it every night to their children at before they go to sleep. In the book, the story of Owané is told by a father to his three sons. Night after night the brothers gradually learn about the life of Owané, a brave, unusual little girl who will lead her village following the trace of the ugly monkeys.
Spring, 2089: the whole world has heard of the disturbiances in the external university franchises. Demonstrations in New Berkely, protests in the Sorbonne Resseau and student riots throughout the Academic Ring.
“Black Bread is an exceptional novel. Written in striking literary language, it describes post-war life in Catalonia through the eyes of a young boy who doesn’t understand the compromises the adults have to reach in order to survive.” (Peter Bush)
Every year, hundreds of thousands of babies are born. Many of them are the first offspring of couples joining the thrilling world of bringing up a child, a world in which men want to play a moe active role. But they very often do not know how to do this: no one has taught them anything.
Simón finally has a diary - a real one, with hard covers and a lock to keep his secrets as safe as if they were made of gold. Now Simón can hide his experiences from his nosey brother Julián. Julián won't be able to read the story of Simón's friendship with Héctor, a boy with autism who has recently joined the class. Nor about how Simón treats him: naturally and without prejudice.
The Marquess of Torregrossa reads an article in the newspaper that worries him. It's Tuesday the 24th of March, 1964. The ex-legionnaire Francisco de Paula Goyanes would rather take a sip of liquor than go back to the barracks where he lives; he just wants to be left in peace. When he drinks he ends up talking more than he should and this is dangerous.
Humankind is naturally restless. It loves unostentatious beauty. It seeks knowledge tenaciously. And one of its preferred ways to satisfy these desires is to travel: seeing strange places and the pleasure of the novel. On my travels I have seen the world around me as an album of geopoetic landscapes.