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Judit is a twelve-year-old girl with a gift: her talent for drawing. She lives with her mother and grandfather in Geneva. Her father, a famous painter, abandoned them and moved to Hungary when she was little. Judit is preparing to take part in a drawing competition when she is suddenly introduced to the game of chess, at which she proves unexpectedly good.
Nine-year-old Nicolás Roblealto is travelling on a boat with his parents. He's really bored. And instead of enjoying themselves, his parents spend the whole time arguing. One day Nicolás decides to carry out his threat: he takes a lifeboat and goes to a desert island.
Summer 1977. Jaime Olalla, a shy teenager who loves literature and cinema, returns home after spending a year with the Jesuits in Burgos. He plans to move to Madrid the following September to begin his studies in medicine.
A forbidden love affair, a passionate adventure set between 19th century England and Cuba. María Lezcano's tranquil life comes to an end at the age of nineteen when she realises that she is in love with her adoptive brother, Eric. Such a thing is scandalous in England in 1870… When the young man realises that he is in love with her too, he decides to leave the family home.
Every book is a journey, that's what José Luis Muñoz always says when he talks about the ones he's written, many of which have taken shape during his journeys over five continents.
From now on there will be five of them in the house: five toothbrushes in the bathroom, five plates on the table. And the flat smells different. Jan is trying to work out why her parents didn't smile when they delivered the news: their grandparents Joan and Caterina are coming to live with them, in their flat in Barcelona.
A story of love and death in the border town of Portbou, 1990: a young woman is found hanged from a tree. She is wearing a white dress, like a bride, but no one knows who she is. The investigation finds that she had committed suicide, although the police are unable to identify the victim. Twenty-five years later, Inspector Garibaldi takes the case up again.
In a hidden corner of the vegetable garden there is a courgette hiding. He's always dressed up to the nines and wears the most stylish wig in the garden. Each night he pulls a pair of scissors, a comb and a hairdryer out from under some leaves and hangs up the 'open' sign at his hair salon, which is hidden behind a rock.
Nearly twenty years on, the students of Liceo de la Guardia de Blyd are busy using their magic to protect a society that has been living in peace for years. But when the shadow of Dominio returns to threaten the country, a group of students will have to confront secrets from the past . . . without revealing their own.
The symbiosis between the author and his main character reaches the point where events and not a few roles are reversed. The first three people in this singular tale switch back and forth like the viewpoint of a swimmer. All that is needed is a complicit reader to close the circle and complete the trinity…