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Lives crossed in a fantasy country. An unforgettable journey to Iceland. A watchmaker who has never left Sabadell and has to go to Iceland to fix and old clock. A young Scandinavian in search of a band to play the music he likes. A couple of geologists who go on their dream trip. A retired learned writer and a young journalist who had to interview him. A presumed victor.
Two years ago, David Bowman was on holiday on Ibiza when he met a unique character who told him an impressive story. Months later, back on Ibiza, Professor Bowman discovered a newspaper cutting that described the disappearance of that man, who was very well known on the island. An experienced sailor, he had left with the aim of sailing round the world, then disappeared without a trace.
Anna, a graphic designer by chance, independent by necessity, introspective, constantly calculating, keeping the balance, putting the meter back to zero in order to keep going on. And Manel, Nel, Nelet, her companion, so close and so distant, so much need and so much buried rage.
A novel about the abnormality of daily life of a group of friends who try to live and love as if everything were normal. Lluís Calvo writes an unusual love story that seeks a singular epic genre and hides in the corners of each and any of us. But it is not just about that, it is also about surviving change, darkness, fashionable bars and obsessions. In the end, it is about surviving daily life.
"La amante imperfecta, a mixture of noir literture, love story and contemporary social critique, enthrals readers with its words, its brilliant descriptions, the texture of its characters, their lies, longings and ambitions.
New York, end of the 20th century. A young Spanish couple discover the great city, the contrast between the glitz and glamour of cinema and the harshness of daily life, the fragility of a personal identity still in construction and the greatest pain of love that seemed invincible.
Melilla, the nineteen fifties. Faced with the decolonisation of Morocco, the Spanish inhabitants of the Protectorate are forced to return to the Iberian Peninsula. North African Hebrews hope to stop this exodus by installing themselves in the recently created state of Israel. In this context of uncertainty, a middle aged couple worry about their future and that of their two children.
Barcelona, 1771. Sixteen-year-old Constança leaves the distant city of Lima after the death of her father, a diplomat in the service of the Viceroy, to journey to Barcelona to join her grandparents.
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of England and France, travels to Castile in the company of her friend and confidant, the Druid Blédhri, who wants to leave a written record of the queen's eventful life.