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The tranquillity of the small French village of Beaufort is shattered by an event that seems at first to lack a reasonable explanation. The farmer Henri Morillon has found one of his cows dead, in strange circumstances: it has been bled to death.
When she was little more than a child going to look for water at the oasis, Maria (or Meryem) could never have imagined how much her life would change. Out there in the Sahara, she was happy. Until the caravans stopped arriving and her father Yunan - better known as the Tuareg - was forced to emigrate to find work.
There are moments in life when sadness overcomes you, wiping the smile from your face; melancholy makes you turn pale, your vision is blurred by a grey cloud, and you don't know why.
If poetry shouldn't worry about being beautiful or pleasant or seeking for truth; if poetry has to be painful, accompany our sleepless nights; if it is born in blotted notebooks while one walks up and down the city; if it must take us to the very edge of the precipice, "paralysed by the strange, vague doubt of continued existance", in short to possess "the raging force of lif
It's night, and a group of Viking pirates are sacking a village, planning on returning to their ship with a few slaves. As they land on the beach they hear some strange sounds. Shortly afterwards, hundreds of arrows rain down upon them. The few survivors are taken prisoner by a demented-looking horde.
1936. Against the backdrop of a fratricidal war, in a village surrounded by mountains, the awful murder of a little girl unleashes the underlying violence in this remote location. A rural schoolmaster tormented by the past, a cruel priest and a village numbed by fear are the main characters in La noche feroz, a metaphysical thriller.
This year Valeria is going to have a very special holiday, or at least that's what her mum says, a real specialist in finding original, out-of-the-ordinary locations. She chooses a peculiar, lonely spot in the north of Norway, and there, the present mixes with the past in Valeria's dreams.
In 'La nueva taxidermia', Mercedes Cebrián returns to the field of narrative with a book composed of two novelas. In 'Qué inmortal he sido' (How immortal have I been), an exercise of memory and an attempt to capture history lead the heroine to undertake a project to reconstruct spaces from the past.