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Lazaro was born in Salamanca, right by the Tormes river. He was very poor and had to take care of himself from a young age. He didn't live in a happy world, but he was clever and cunning and he found ways to get by...
This is not a book about the world. It is not a book about social networks, or television, or Hispanic or North American literature. Nor is it a book about Twitter or the power of the image. A multifarious and dynamic essay, driven by a single preoccupation: how we view our times.
In present day Barcelona, the young computer technician Beltrán, who once dreamt of changing the world, has ended up selling his soul to the establishment, working for a big multinational com¬pa-ny. He can’t believe in anything anymore, and even less since one year ago his beloved wife got killed in an absurd traffic accident.
El lenguaje prohibido de los aromas is an incomparable novel that takes us to the realm of smell and its consequences.
A novel set in London and Madrid during the second half of the twentieth century.
In this pleasant and provocative work the authors reject creeping state interference, power’s coercion and intimidation, as well as its ongoing efforts to reduce citizens’ rights and the claims that it knows what’s best for its subjects.
Angelina is a 17th century Venetian adolescent who, after the deaths of her parents, is forced to flee her city as her life is in peril. Accompanied by her faithful servant, Pietrolino she travels through Europe, Africa and Asia, awakening to her sense of herself as a woman – and therefore to sex and love – and finding clues to the mystery of her identity.
This is not a great esoteric book or a complicated manual. Quite the opposite, it offers simple benevolent spells, aimed at improving our own lives and those of the people around us.
Every journey unfolds across three dimensions: the inner journey, the journey through time and the journey through space. The spatial dimension fills the senses while the temporal one fuels the experience, but it is the inner journey that can truly change a human being. But can a human being change the meaning of the universe?
The first title in the GUARDIANS OF SLEEP series. It's close to the end of term, and Serena is having nightmares. Beneath what her parents assume to be nerves at the upcoming exams, something more sinister is concealed. A character who introduces himself as Doctor Lethargy, the father of her classmate Insomnia, threatens Serena and her friends Virginia, Rául and Simón.
An urban novel of criss-crossing lives that come together, written with a brilliant blend of registers ranging from the poetic to the humorous.
A tale of love, lovelessness, the bliss of complicity and desire, and the impossibility of perpetuating what is probably no more than a creation of our own.