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23rd February, 1981. A village in Castille surrounded by mountains. Every Monday, seven-year-old Elena goes to her catechism class. One day she and her classmates are unexpectedly urged to leave the classroom and to go home as quickly as they can. A coup d'etat is happening in the country right then.
Magda, a young woman aged 21, leaves her home town and decides to go and do her final year of medical school in Barcelona. Behind her she is leaving everything: a boyfriend, a family and her university degree. Her best friend Bel has committed suicide and Magda would rather start her training at a new hospital far away from there to stop herself from asking why she did nothing to prevent it.
This new book pays homage to fantasy films: from The Lord of the Rings or the recent feature-length production The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and passing through emblematic films such as The NeverEnding Story, The Wizard of Oz, Fantasia, Labyrinth and Conan the Barbarian, among others.
Pergamino is the son of Mikhola, the librarian of An, a mythical Slavic kingdom. A story about a missing cursed book, conceited prophetesses and sly oracles and creatures and powers as old as night. One night Pergamino senses that his father is threatened by a vampire, who curses him and takes away what he treasures most: his ability to talk, read and write.
Qwerty Vintage is a chat, and it starts with an editor's note: 'It was the author's wish that the dialogues be reproduced precisely as they were originally written.
I´ve spent the last ten years traveling the arc between Tripoli and Kabul, meeting the bombed, the prosecuted, the displaced… When war comes home, it knocks it down. It´s always a peculiar sensation to travel into situations that others are trying to leave. The signposts along the journey aren't places, but people, and they are constantly on the move.
School's out! And just like every year, you're going on holiday. This time you're off to a sunny island in the middle of the ocean, which has an incredible secret. There you will soon discover that the mythical city of Atlantis, which ended up under the sea, is very real. And it's in danger! Will you be able to save it? Your decisions will decide its fate.
'Una familia ejemplar' is a hilarious satire, a tragicomedy that takes a look at the disproportionate ambition that sometimes makes reasonable people lose their heads, and also a searing critique of great family sagas.