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Just before the beautiful empress of Hindustan, Mumtaz Mahal, closed her eyes forever, her husband promised to honour her memory with the most beautiful monument ever built. 'Taj' is the story of this magnificent work and its twenty thousand heroes: architects, calligraphers, master workmen and labourers who, riding on elephants, dragged the enormous blocks of marble.
In 1930’s Madrid the workers in a smart tea room near the Puerta del Sol smooth down their uniforms at the beginning of a new day. Antonia has been there the longest, although nobody has ever recognised her talents. Little Marta has been made bold and determined by misery.
What really happened at the party last night? Were there any victims? What is in the box that our boss gave us in secret, asking us not to open it, and which seems to be shaking and making a quiet crying sound? Is it a living being or a clockwork mechanism?
The necromancers of Idyll Tower are not as the stories tell. Nobody sacrifices maidens or dances with death, they just study books and spells. Clarence, who has always lived there, loves its peaceful atmosphere, but Hazan, who has travelled to the outside world, is beginning to get bored.
Do you know what the soft kiss of a butterfly feels like? Or the toothy kiss of a crocodile? Or what a cow’s kiss is like? Some kisses are a surprise, some are presents, some are for friends, and Sito, the smallest member of the Kiss family, will discover them all on his fantastic journey. Will you come too?
Only someone with the instint for instinct, skill and sense of humour of Empar Moliner could have written a story collection like "I’m Doing All This Because I’m So Scared", a literary jewel that will move and entertain the reader from beginning to end. These stories portray the maladies of our time in a unique, distinctive way.
The unexplained murder of a young Russian woman in Stockholm puts the Säpo (the security, anti-espionage and anti-terrorism department of the Swedish police force) on red alert, and they immediately try to bring a smoke screen down around the crime.
'You are going to be born today. You shouldn't be, but you will. You shouldn't because it's hell out there. There are demonstrations, day in, day out. People talk about elections. About attacks. About amnesties. But the story that will affect your own life is going to unfurl much closer, a few kilometres away.