New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2009 - E

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.

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.

Creosbe’s World is actually an underwater world, riddled with naiads, sirens and elves, a place you can reach at full moon nights. This fantastic universe is inevitably linked to ours through a magic door, hidden under Lake Enol, in Asturias.

Iris is thirty-six and she is shattered by the death of her parents in an accident. A grey and cold afternoon, when the world seems to have no sense, she begins to walk the streets trying not to return home. Just when she is thinking of doing something mad, she discovers a café she hadn’t seen before.