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It's the start of 2015 and in a short space of time the Valencian political landscape changes more than it has in decades... but the people who live their lives against the tide are neither willing nor able to stop. Marc Sendra, a journalist who has gone freelance after quitting his paper, is writing a novel about a historic attack committed in the very centre of the city.
Ángela, an attractive and successful journalist who never seems to fit in anywhere; Eva, a rebellious teenager who pushes her parents to the limits of their patience; and a young married couple whose idyllic existence comes to an end after the birth of their longed-for daughter. The lives of these characters become intertwined under the evil influence of a single tragedy.
Interestelania recounts the journey of Camila, a very curious little girl who wants to learn about her surroundings. Her father, who happens to be an inventor, sends her to space on a voyage that will take her to unknown worlds. Those worlds were conjured up in the imagination of my daughter and her friends, on the afternoons they spent together in the park.
At the start of winter in 1809, a badly injured deserter from the Napoleonic Army arrives in a small town somewhere in the mountains, a location which will become the heart of the novel. Lives and secrets, passions and hopes collide over the course of a century and a half in the streets and pastures of this little town where there is no other magic than life; houses, squares, woods, sky, caves .