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Pérez Domínquez gives us an unforgettable story inhabited by disenchanted heroes, enigmatic women and frantic persecutions, where love reveals itself as the holy grail which is able to redeem all the characters. A moving spy novel in the style of Graham Green's writing which Pérez Domínguez translates to the Madrid and Seville of the 1950s with ease.
Carmelo returns to the village in his native Andalusia for the first time. Thirty years ago his mother took him way from there when he was only three years old, fleeing after witnessing a horrific event which would condition his life and everyone's who lived there during the days of General Franco's uprising.
Our existence is constructed on a society that conditions us to think and behave in a determined way. For this reason, most of us have an egocentric, materialistic lifestyle, aimed at satisfying our own interests. Nevertheless, work, consumption, image and entertainment are unable to fill our inner void.
Ania, the protagonist of this novel, receives a request from her father: that she should go and pay a final farewell visit on behalf of the family to her uncle Agustín, who is at death's door on the other side of the mountains. In order to do so she will embark on a 1,500 kilometre journey, which will be both an escape from the present and a movement towards the cloudy edges of memory.
This story tells the adventures of the sun, who one day falls asleep and leaves the Earth in darkness. How will he light the Earth again? He must find a way to climb up into the sky and save the day.
Señora Filomena goes out for a walk, in her Sunday best and a new hat that everyone admires. But the wind begins to blow and Filomena's hat flies off, much to her dismay. So begins the journey of this elegant and volatile hat, which on its way meets a family of mice that makes their home in its crown: kitchen and the living room downstairs; upstairs, a bed, with a springy mattress.
We are in the politically inflamed Barcelona of the months previous to the outbreak of the Civil War. Pau Capdevila is a young lawyer who occasionally helps anarchist workers to ease their encounters with the law. He believes in nothing and neither is he particularly aware that his actions might have consequences beyond his immediate surroundings.
The route of Clementia's life was laid out before she was born, she was destined for an existence of happiness, good fortune and privilege. Born into the heart of a noble family in Madrid, she was always a happy child. However, her eyes were opened when she once overheard her grandmother, nicknamed the Spiteful, speaking through gritted teeth: "No tears today means tears tomorrow".
Each of Goya’s masterpieces is like a dream: some are games, others are nightmares. For some unknown reason, a young man escapes the “The goose blind” and enters other paintings changing them a bit... well, quite a lot frankly. But where is Goya? Hush, hush... he is dreaming.