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In 1938 Hitler is already the greatest threat to world peace. The Nazi regime seems indestructible. History will prove that this is not the case, in part thanks to Juan Pujol, better known by his code name: Garbo. In addition to his convictions, Garbo has many other qualities, like a special talent for deceit, courage and imagination.
“A museum visitor is, in general, someone who is not interested in museums, someone who is scarcely interested in art. It is clear to everyone that you do not go to museums for enjoyment, but simply to say that you have been there. What is more: a museum visit is, on principle, a truly funerary experience.
The novel is told in the voice of Mary Magdalene, an old woman remembering the time she spent with Jesus Christ and the sequence of events that shaped the man who became one of the most powerful icons in human history.
This detailed study represents a very important contribution to the knowledge of the Spanish republican Diaspora after the defeat against Franco, because of its diversity and complexity.
In the first few months of 1941 a group of Zionist Jews propose an alliance to the Nazis. Is this merely a novelistic conceit? Absolutely not. In this novel based on rigourously documented and little-known historical facts, the author relates a series of events that might have changed the course of the war and, without any doubt, of the history of humanity itself.
At the beginning of the 20th century an orphan witnesses an impressive spectacle: a ventriloquist magician makes a metal puppet talk and move. But the child suspects that magic alone can't explain this extraordinary spectacle.
A shot is fired on the cliffs, and Hugo has blood on his hands, but does not really know what he has seen. His visit to Normandy becomes an enigma whose roots are buried in the Second World War.
It is a hot summer and Zoe is trying to overcome a romantic break-up staying near a marvellous cove at the foot of a lighthouse in a little fishing village. Whilst free-diving a current sucks him into the depths and transports him to a mysterious grotto. Unable to find a way out he looses consciousness.