New Spanish Titles - Spring 2011 - L

What is the graphic novel? In the last few years, comics have grown up. A wealth of ambitious, innovative works is giving a cultural prestige comparable to art and literature to what has traditionally been considered a children's product. It might be said that we are actually witnessing the birth of a new art form.

We are accustomed to architects' omnipotence; their deification, however, goes back to the dawn of history. In Mesopotamia, Enki, one of the three great gods of the Sumerian pantheon, was considered an architect-god, charged with ordering the world and teaching men how to continue with this task, putting together and dwelling in the world.

One night, Víctor leaves his house to go and discover Buenos Aires at night, unexplored territory for him, aiming not to go home until the sun comes up. After a few tense situations for a teenager like him, he ends up accepting a prostitute's invitation to have a drink in some dive. What happens between then and sunrise will mark Víctor's life forever.

Ela is a promising, ambitious young civil servant who has just been named director of operations of CNI, the Spanish intelligence agency, a secret service post occupied by a woman for the first time in history. She is very attached to her grandfather, who has given her a series of tapes he recorded as his will.