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Would you like to meet a number that’s cheekier than a mouse on top of a piece of cheese? Well, don’t waste another second: open this book now! Soon you’ll learn how to make shadows with your hands, you’ll hear what an eight lying on its side has to tell you, you’ll applaud wildly when Claudio scores a goal, you’ll enjoy a lively chat with Mr.
A group of jobless people gets together every day in the park opposite the job centre where they met. One man always shares out his cigarettes, but one morning he doesn’t show up and they discover he has been murdered. Susano ate lunch with him the day before and is suspected of his death.
María, one of the heroines of this story, learns that her aunt Matilda is coming to live with her family. After adapting to the change this represents for her, she starts to enjoy her aunt's company and peculiar habits. In the course of a single day she discovers all they can share and the secret her aunt is hiding.
Poisoned apples, pumpkins that turn into carriages, olives that can be transformed into oil to light up the darkness... where would our famous fairy tales be without plants? Hand in hand with Snow White, Cinderella and Ali Baba, biologist Aina S. Erice invites us to discover the wonderful world of plants.
This is a book of very short, unconventional, chaotic stories about marital relationships in which ‘There is not a single word too many or too few, the narrative is measured to the milimetre’ (Luis Eduardo Aute).
After Madres e hijas, this new anthology of stories, edited by Laura Freixas, explores another crucial realm of experience for women: their friendships.
It's impossible to think of the Alhambra and the Palacio del Generalife without recalling Irving, and even those who haven't read 'Cuentos de la Alhambra' have heard of them or have smelled their sweet aroma via other channels: by osmosis or, as Rubén Darío, a great admirer of the Nasrid enclave, would say, by unconscious reflection.
A jungle filled with animals and the occasional human being, where some live through exciting, at times dangerous situations, all of which are narrated by Horacio Quiroga with a large dose of humour.
As winter draws in, Casimiro, an old Cantabrian peasant, finds a fairy named Zamiha in the woods. She is trapped in a snare, unconscious, one of her chestnut-leaf wings broken. He decides to take her back to his cabin to look after her.
Set in a fantasy world parallel to ours, the novel allows young readers to identify themselves with the protagonist, who plunges faster than he would have liked in a magical universe that will require him to meet and work with many different characters he will end up feeling fond of. An ideal story for teenagers to learn the values of comradeship and unity in diversity.