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After reading all about the poet Antonio Machado, Javier decides to visit the writer's tomb. In the hotel, he meets a strange woman and her son; a hyperactive teenager. One morning, at breakfast, the woman disappears leaving her son abandoned.
A nameless assassin and a missing little girl. An old librarian who suffers memory loss and has to sell off his books to survive. And above all, the guest, the one who dominates the old man at times when he loses control.
El que apaga la luz, title taken from one of Somerset Maugham’s sentences, is a book full of incurable patients, obsessions that culminate in the worst of nightmares (insomnia) and whose only relief is suicide. Characters tormented by evil deeds of which they cannot repent, who try to find answers to justify their deeds but find only angst and uncertainty.
“El raïm inquiet” (La uva inquieta/the restless grape) tells the story of an lively, impatient bunch of grapes that really, really wants to become wine. On this intense journey, during which our bunch of grapes will experience several transformations, readers will learn about the process of making the must and the wine as they follow the protagonist's adventures.
Let’s sing, listen, dance or read, raps the chicken Carolina. A lively story featuring Carolina, the independent artist who is the biggest noise anywhere.
Antonio Gramsci wrote many letters to his wife from prison. In one of these, he tells her a story so she can read it to his sons: the story of a mouse who drinks a little boy's breakfast milk. When the little boy wakes up and cries with hunger, the mouse asks the goat for milk, but the goat can't give him any without grazing first. But the meadow has no grass, nor the spring any water...
What do you need to do to discover a world full of possibilities? Sometimes all you have to do is… imagine, dress up, dream, open a wonderful book, or… just take the paw of a little globe-trotting mouse!
Pérez the tooth mouse loved his job. Every night he left his home to collect all the teeth from under the pillows of the little girls and boys, until one day Giménez suddenly appeared and said he was the new tooth mouse! What a mess! Who will be the new tooth mouse? Pérez or Giménez?