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Over a century ago, the industrial revolution and mass production forced companies to look for mass markets for their products. These companies made use of a new tool (advertising) to bombard enormous audiences with generic messages through the loudspeaker of the media.
It’s the fifth of January and Antonieta’s stove has broken. She has to go out to fetch firewood and on the way she meets a camel who says he comes from the Orient and has very generous masters. Curious and adventurous, Antonieta climbs onto the Black Camel’s back to discover the magic of the night of the Three Kings.
Does the werewolf exist, that creature halfway between a human and a wild beast? How can the violent deaths of so many women in a remote village in Galicia be explained? While the husband of the local schoolmistress tries to give objective, rational explanations of the incidents, the reader will gasp at events that loom in dark backwoods.
Once upon a time there was an old woman who was a witch. She dressed in the style of a witch and she had a witch's nose, which made her look like a witch. Sometimes, the children saw her in the street and, with their hair standing up on end, shouted: "A witch!" And they were not mistaken. But she wasn't a very original or creative witch, or even amusing. She was a boring, bored witch.
In Berlin, in exile, that is where these characters find themsleves, like bubbles dancing in the air. A similar atmosphere surrounds all the stories, each in its particular setting.