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Alexandra's grandmother is starting to forget everything. Alexandra's family thinks that she will not understand what is happening, as she is only twelve years old, so they begin to hide and disguise the truth. At first, Alexandra is amused when her grandmother contravenes the social norms, but she soon starts to ask herself if this behaviour is a way of resisting old age or illness.
The narrative begins with the discovery of a body in the swamp in Olba. The protagonist, Esteban, has been forced to close the furniture shop he owned, leaving his workers jobless and on the dole.
In the Other's Hair follows the lives of two young women from the first months of 1971 to the present day. On the one hand is Ramona Marquès, abandoned by a revolutionary who disappeared from her life, leaving her pregnant.
From the darkest Barcelona, comes a thriller with devlish pace. Eva Valverde is a pick-pocket, she has two income streams and dresses in Prada. Besides stealing wallets on the metro and on the streets of the Gothic quarter, she burgles tourist apartments in a Barcelona that is more crowded by the day.
A minimalist strangeness lingers in the soul of anyone who reads the stories in Natàlia Cerezo's first collection, En las ciudades escondidas (In the Hidden Cities). There is an apparently intense inner being in all the characters, who are defined by what they don't say and what they have lost. They are alive, nothing more or less.
Children are inexplicably disappearing without trace. The psychologist Jamilen Lasso, who is going through a low point in his life, is given the task of supporting the families, but when he digs into the victims' pasts he discovers that things are not quite what they seem. Seemingly unconnected events become the backdrop for a criminal investigation that seems to point to a very unusual pursuit.
Get involved with the Valeria phenomenon. You'll love it! Valeria is a romance writer Valeria and a sublime love Valeria has three friends: Nerea, Carmen y Lola Valeria lives in Madrid. Valeria loves Adrián until she meets Víctor. Valeria needs to be honest with herslef. Valeria crys, Valeria laughs, Valeria walks... But sex, love and men are not easy goals. Valeria is special. LIke you.
A boy called Pedro leaves his home one night in search of his fire engine, and goes into the forest. Some animals watch him curiously. An owl, a squirrel, a hedgehog… He doesn't notice. What is Pedro capable of to get his fire engine back? Go into the forest with him! There you'll meet a whole pile of very curious animals and have an amazing adventure, full of surprises, with them.
Who can summarise his or her own life in three hundred words? Marcos, the scientist who is the main character of Andrés Barba's fantastic novel, constantly comes up against this impossibility over Christmas, while his wife and brother-in-law, a famous now retired comic with a crazed and complicated political past, meet for the first time the year their mother has died.
Many women have had to take on the role of men throughout history to fulfill their ambitions or simply find a place in society. Centuries of discrimination and intolerance of women led some of the most rebellious to disguise themselves as men, better to fight an intransigent, absurd and unjust society, one that denied women the same rights as men.