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During the four hours that go by as he waits for the moving van to pick him up, the Málaga painter Jorge Díaz goes over his life up to that moment, spent since he was a child imitating - in even the most minute details - his countryman Pablo Picasso. This obsessive necessity to be like his idol has led him into pathetic, and sometimes comical, situations.
Verónica León is a homicide inspector in Madrid. For a couple of years now she has been involved in a difficult relationship with sub inspector Roberto Vidal, who separated from his wife at that point. During one of their occasional trysts, they are informed that an old man has been murdered.
Nagasaki, August, 1945. Kazuo, a young Westerner who has settled in Japan, and Junko, the beautiful daughter of a flower arrangement designer, have agreed to meet on a hill to seal their teenage love with a haiku that hides a secret about their relationship. Minutes before the time for their meeting arrives, the atomic bomb turns the city into the worst of all hells. Tokyo, February 2011.
The novel opens with the announcement of the death of a father during a bedroom scene involving his son and closes on the same day of the year, over three decades later, in the same house, into which the intrusion of some burglars causes the past of two lovers to be released from a black box.
Israel works in a small concession of a shop set within another shop, on the ground floor of the La Vaguada shopping centre. He used to be a dreamer, a true romantic with his head in the clouds, but now, after reading a self-help book that has promised him he'll become a better person, he has adopted a fluid style of life.
The first title in the GUARDIANS OF SLEEP series. It's close to the end of term, and Serena is having nightmares. Beneath what her parents assume to be nerves at the upcoming exams, something more sinister is concealed. A character who introduces himself as Doctor Lethargy, the father of her classmate Insomnia, threatens Serena and her friends Virginia, Rául and Simón.
Jorge travels from Spain to Scotland to improve his English. While there, he lives with a family on a farm in a village close to Loch Ness. Life seems to be passing peacefully but suddenly he finds himself enveloped in disturbing mysteries that threaten the safety of his friends and the girl he has fallen in love with, Annabella.
“El raïm inquiet” (La uva inquieta/the restless grape) tells the story of an lively, impatient bunch of grapes that really, really wants to become wine. On this intense journey, during which our bunch of grapes will experience several transformations, readers will learn about the process of making the must and the wine as they follow the protagonist's adventures.
12 April, 1097. A tall, thin man arrives at the little castle of Dornoch; he is slightly bent over and has a deformed nose. It is Macbeth, son of Macbeth, king of Scotland, and he is here to be reunited with Fleance, son of Banquo, to whom he is linked by a story of crimes and blood.
The confidence with which Columbus set out on his voyage to the Indies and his later discovery the New World has been the target of a great deal of speculation. How could the Admiral have been so confident about which route to take?