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Richard O'Hara is waiting in a hotel in Shanghai for a contract to be signed between the Government of China and western pharmaceutical companies that will make him a wealthy man. After his stay in Asia, he receives a strange commission: to locate a section of landscape that appears in an old photograph.
Liberated from the Dachau concentration camp in April 1945, Andreu Ribera's sole objective is to get to Paris to find news of Rosa. There, in the Hotel Lutecia, he waits for news with countless other relations of the dead, disappeared and survivors. When everything seems hopeless, he finds help in Blanche, a widow whose son died in the war and who runs a bistro near to the Hotel Lutecia.
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 .
Like all classical mythology, the story of Jason is also relevant to our lives - the need to keep moving forward and the achievement of dreams that seem almost impossible. Paloma Corral and Kike Ibáñez, the authors and illustrators of this modern reinterpretation of the legend, offer us dazzling illustrations designed to appeal to younger readers. More information is available at www.milrazon.es.
Ten stories in which music, wit and lyricism combine to create a dreamlike atmosphere that will create in the reader a sensation similar to that evoked by the stories of Clarice Lispector. Maths and the music of life create the sonorous timbre of this first book of stories by Almudena Sanchez.
In a lonely forest, two teenagers are brutally attacked by a supernatural being. In their statements, they both say that their assailant was a zombi. Inspector Laura Tébar takes on the case. She is a fifty-five, brilliant, solitary, and has a redoubtable character forged during a past filled with mistakes that can never be corrected.
Soledad, single and childless, has just reached sixty. But what might look like a normal life to many is to her a symptom of her difference, and she spends days and nights torturing herself about it. One night Soledad pays Adam, a 32 year-old gigolo, to go with her to the opera, hoping to make an ex-lover jealous.