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On her way home from school, Candela passes the house with the creeper. Afraid, she's always kept her distance from it, and speeds up her pace, but today a disturbing detail attracts her attention: the glass door of the balcony on the first floor is half-open. And if that isn't enough, she also thinks she hears a sigh. Is there someone in the house? An intriguing story full of enigmas.
THRILLER, TERROR. When, a year into their relationship, Edward Benet, a handsome English gentleman, suggests to Amanda Kresley that she travel with him from United States to Great Britain to meet his mother, there is nothing to make her suspect that this might become the worst journey of her life.
… A man who has a strange relationship with cinema, a rich man bored with his money, the mother of a dictator, a couple who love each other in a… peculiar way, and a maniac obsessed with fame are some of the characters making up Confessions to te Psychoanalyst. A brilliantly funny book which, with sharp wit and a sense of rhythm, parodies the effects of modern society and our lifestyles.
An eccentric but respected Barcelona writer of advanced years turns up at her brother's house and casually informs him "As you can imagine, I'm here to die". Another woman, forty years of age and in mid crisis, throws herself into her lover's arms in search of a desperate way out of the confusion she lives in. The women find themselves forced to help each other in an extreme situation.
San Basilio is one of the most iconoclastic and visionary of present-day Spanish writers, gifted with an eye for uncovering the extraordinary and enigmatic aspects of trivial areas of life. His new novel takes a humorous, surprising look at the vibrant, swarming world of South Korea. A student at Yonsei University who frequents a soothsayer's consulting rooms.