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'No woman can be blamed if two men are in love with her.' Thus begins this magnificent novel of intense contrasts and unforgettable characters: Amelia, beautiful, rebellious, insatiable. Martín, idealistic, free-thinking, vanquished. And Alberto, the terrifying second-lieutenant Repellejo, a monster in love, a spirit endowed with a strange sensitivity.
Unfinished, dramatic, traumatic and unhappy stories remain here. Especially the big secrets – the ones that clang like church bells, getting louder every day. The information derived from all the individuals that share the same genetic code is automatically stored in DNA.
Verónica León is a homicide inspector in Madrid. For a couple of years now she has been involved in a difficult relationship with sub inspector Roberto Vidal, who separated from his wife at that point. During one of their occasional trysts, they are informed that an old man has been murdered.
Verónica León is an inspector of Homicides in Madrid. For the last couple of years she has been in a somewhat tortuous relationship with sub-inspector Roberto Vidal, who separated from his wife around the same time. During one of their occasional meetings, they are told that an old man has been murdered.
Jerónimo Díaz, a young anarchist painter, living in exile after the Spanish Civil War, is asked to copy the enigmatic El Bosco painting 'Jonas and the Ballerina', a work which appears and disappears and which Philip II tried to acquire in the 16th century.
Italy in the Second World War: the American poet Ezra Pound takes part, via Radio Rome, in the propaganda war against the allies and against the Jews. But Pound's Nazi fervour over the airwaves arouses the suspicions of the Italian counter-espionage service. The radio was by now a tool to inflame, indoctrinate and mobilise the masses, a weapon of war and device of spies.
A member of the terrorist group ETA, known as Iñaki, gets in touch with a former friend, Eduardo, who is now a journalist because he wants to defect and to collaborate with the Spanish Government. As soon as the news reaches the CNI (Spanish Intelligence Agency), they send Miguel Maestre, a well trained spy, to contact Iñaki.
A comedy in three acts about the fundamental values of the individual and society. Using a magical net given to him by his grandfather, little Miguel fishes in the seven star pond with his friends and teaches them the really important things in life: the value of caring, tolerance, constancy and effort, peace and forgiveness, happiness, hope, the memory of loved ones, and knowing how to share...
A woman arrives with her twelve-year-old daughter at the apartment where her husband wants them to live while he is away on his unusually long business trips. Very soon, they discover that they are alone in the building except for an angry and taciturn doorman, her husband’s strange employee who visits them repeatedly, and the cleaning lady.