New Spanish Titles - Spring 2011 - E

Sebastián Corvado lives a cloistered existence in the house of his adoptive mother's master. He seldom goes out, but in one of his sorties he meets the young painter Diego Velázquez, whom he befriends. He also falls in love with a beautiful slave girl who is mistreated by her master, and he decides to liberate her.

There are many women who hope that their lives turn out like a novel: the woman who marries but dreams of meeting the love of her life again when she turns a corner; the little girl who grows up waiting for her next-door-neighbour to notice her; and the woman convinced that the man she has seduced will cross an ocean to find her.

The Virtual Encyclopedia of the car is a new concept: an encyclopaedia in which the user not only consults the information, but can also interact with the content due to its the elctronic format.

The difficult relationship between father and son: the burden of inheritance. Hannibal, the rebellious son of the historian, Brener, wastes his life on the fringes of academia, with only alcohol and his frustrations for company. He is weighed down by his commitment to opaque truth, in opposition to his father, who has been able to build his fame as a historian on embellished truths.