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"Charcoal Letters" (Irene Vasco and Juan Palomino): Almost no-onemin the town of Palenque knows how to read. Señor Valendia, the owner of the shop, is one of the few people who do. When Gina starts to receive letters, which she supposes are love letters, her little sister decides to learn in order to be able to read these mysterious letters...
The disturbing story of a relationship. What happens to fairies who can't find true love? Lili believes in fairies, Marlene doesn't. Marlene and Lili, sanity and madness, invite us into the front row of the disturbing story, set in Barcelona, of the relationship between their mother—a Berlin teacher of Catalan—and "Mom's new girlfriend".
Winter 1936: the rebel troops that have risen up against the Second Spanish Republic bomb Madrid. The republican government decides to start evacuating the most valuable paintings in the Prado.
A moving ensemble novel that follows a year in the lives of families, neighbours, parents, children, the young and the elderly, ordinary people who have the courage to keep going.
A series of individuals from various countries meet at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919: some Spaniards - a journalist nicknamed "Carte Blanche", a strange freelance reporter, a speculator and his lover - and others from the powers involved in the conflict.
A brilliant satire about a writer who changes languages. An immigrant from eastern Europe is admitted to a Belgian psychiatric hospital and submitted to a linguistic reinsertion therapy to cure his ailment: not writing in his mother-tongue. But he's not the only patient in the asylum.
The chance discovery of an unusual, apparently worthless painting in the rubble is, in fact, the tip of the iceberg of a collection of extremely valuable, eccentric, irreverent works of art that a group of enlightened people hid during the War of Independence in a corner of the labyrinth of subterranean tunnels of Valderrobres, a town in the Tereul Maestrat.
Mummy Wants To Fly is an illustrated children's book. The main character is a little boy who speaks in the first person: "My mummy does loads of things without me. My mummy lives in a balloon that she wants to fly up and away. Then I get worried because there are some balloons that disappear into the sky when they fly high. My mummy is the best mummy in the world but... she wants to fly".
Martin was an expert at losing things. His mother and grandmother were used to it, and took the whole thing with patience and a sense of humour: "You'll have to sew things to your hands!" Martin didn't worry about it much… until the day he lost his most beloved object: the album of family photographs, the only visual memory he has of his father. He had to find it, come what may.