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Hernán Cortés has destroyed Tenochtitlán in Mexico but he has not been able to eradicate the people’s beliefs. And Ameyali, the ancient priestess of Xochiquetzal, does not accept defeat, even when her gods seem to have been conquered by the invader and power struggles between the Spanish separate her from her son.
Maretonhampstead has the longest name of any village in England but it was soon to be known for a more extraordinary event: the legend concealed by the tomb of Mary Jay. One night, 11 year old John Wilcox and his cousins decide to camp beside the grave to discover its secret. The night will be longer than John could have imagined and will have serious and terrible consequences.
After being involved in an accident resulting in complete memory loss, Jack Winger is admitted to a convalescent clinic. There he learns that he was a crime reporter, that no one has visited him in hospital, and that all the interns suffer from amnesia. What nobody tells him is that all the patients suffer from recurring nightmares: terrible dreams that are repeated every night.
A Chinese ecocolgist, a Peruvian shaman, a Maori from New Zealand, a future Russian cosmonaut…What do they have in common? What worries them? How do they live? How do they face the future? These are the questions that the journalist Marc Serena has put as he travels around the world, living with 25 young people of his age, 25, from 25 countries.
David is a member of the Fearless Ones, the gang of friends who appear in the mystery and adventure series of novels written by José María Plaza. He is always telling horror stories to his friends (not always at the best moment), which he gets from an old manuscript he found in his grandfather’s house.
In the outskirts of Prague a woman’s body appears: her throat has been slit and her eyes gouged out. Over the following weeks, one by one, more women’s bodies keep appearing with different limbs amputated each time.
As in the ancient legends of the Orient, the author invites us to discover a singular universe made up of secrets and shadows by a cat who wants to achieve wisdom, a sultan who wants to rule the kingdom of silence and a dumb carpet weaver who expresses herself in words of silk. This all takes place in Istambul, a magical city of labyrinths.
There has always been a very fertile relationship between literature and cinema. The first great directors, such as Griffith and Eisenstein claimed that they worked like storytellers of realist fiction and, in turn, great literary authors have recognized cinematic techniques in their work.