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A man is floored by an epileptic fit in the reception of a hotel in Madrid. His name is Guillermo Alonso, a talented engineer who has scaled the heights of multinational company Goodwin Chemicals in Spain.
In a place in the universe called Crystal Earth there was a race who talked to the stars. The old people would teach the children from a young age to communicate with the stars, not using words, but with their minds. Crisol was nervous, because that night he was going to celebrate his birthday, and after that he would choose his star. A story about self confidence and self respect.
This book starts from the premise that within the European Left, which has cherished such a strong desire for equality and social justice, a collectivist impulse, at times authoritarian, has become apparent, contrary to the best ideals of emancipation. This impulse spanned the entire 20th century and is still present in part of the Left at the start of the 21st.
San Basilio is one of the most iconoclastic and visionary of present-day Spanish writers, gifted with an eye for uncovering the extraordinary and enigmatic aspects of trivial areas of life. His new novel takes a humorous, surprising look at the vibrant, swarming world of South Korea. A student at Yonsei University who frequents a soothsayer's consulting rooms.
Chronicles of the Impossible is a balanced collection of stories written by the poet Lur Sotuela and illustrated by Julio Silva. Psychological depth, human concerns and a caustic black humour pervade each of these 25 stories.
The Variety: an island of suns surrounded by a huge cosmic vacuum. The five intelligent species that live there are trapped with no way of escaping, although they continue trying to develop their civilizations. Lina Kolbrand is a stellar pirate, captain of the ship Eurydice.
170 years have passed since English Bible seller George Borrow crossed Spain on horseback. The scenery, characters and adventures from his first trip were fixed in his book The Bible in Spain, a classic that became a best seller when it was published in 1843.
Hidden Truth Chronicles is a key work in Calders' writing and represents the discovery, for postwar readers, of an extraordinary storyteller. The author's humour and fantasy had, with the years, gained in intensity, depth and ambiguity, an ambiguity which always permeates fantastic literature, from Poe to Kafka, passing through Pirandello or Bontempelli.
“The truth, my dear Natalia, is that you would need to write many volumes to explain my adventures on Earth and in any case there would still be interesting things left in the inkwell. You have to realise that the world is ours, it belongs to the Dark Ones. The others never even existed. It’s all a story, a fantasy invented by mortals.
This is a story in which goddesses, cows and first love all intermingle. A marvellous, realistic tale about one summer in a northern city, and about the discovery of sex. With his father on remand, young Ludi Rivero Pelayo is free to enjoy life with no authority figure bearing down upon him, and the summer is his.