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He was an orphan and a bastard, but his ambition was clear: that when his father, Don Rodrigo Seijas, lord of San Paio, would be proud of him when he returned from the crusades. That was why he had climbed the high rocks to find a falcon chick that he reared as a present for his father. But the bad news finally arrived: Don Rodrigo was not going to return. And that's where it all began.
France, 1871. The Parisian revolutionaries have risen up against the French government and have taken control of the streets of Paris: it is the Commune. The government's army lays siege to the city to cut off the Commune. The battle is bloody. Under these chaotic circumstances, some partially flayed bodies appear, completely drained of blood.
The year is 1888. London is preparing to celebrate Christmas. Laura Holmes, niece of the popular detective Sherlock Holmes, is offered a very important case: with her inseparable friend Philip H. Hudson, she must solve the mystery of the the disappearance of the famous Maharaja's Diamond, a priceless jewel stolen by some unknown person who left behind him only an enigmatic note.
Pereyra Iraola, the headmaster, has died under strange circumstances. Amparito Conejo, the secretary, who was hopelessly in love with the dead man and is sure that the crime was committed by someone in the school, swears she will find the killer.
Las Hijas de Antonio López (The Daughters of Antonio López) is a settling of scores with life, which never owes us anything however much it takes from us. "What's lost is lost.
Gorzila, a Japanese monster, travels through Spain with the innocence of a Buddhist monk, the strength of an anarchist and a heart bigger than his two brains. In a narrative somewhere between fable and social chronicle, Orihuela uses his protagonist as an alter ego, joking and ironic.
In the third century BC In the Iberian Peninsula, Hannibal Barca has become, by dint of charisma, strength and intelligence, the leader of the Carthaginian armies, uniting not only his people, but also many Iberian peoples who have travelled through the Iberian Peninsula to join him. Rome dominates the world. But Hannibal wants to conquer Rome.
This is a ghost story. A novel that begins with a return and ends with a howl. The narrator of Les possesions travels from Barcelona to Palma to try to halt the paranoid conspiracy spiral of her father who, in his retirement, has gone from being a placid high school teacher to launching a legal battle against an alleged urban crime.
Footballers who stopped wars, like Drogba. Sportsmen who said no to Hitler, like Sindelar, or who were bold enough to refuse to shake Pinochet's hand, like Caszely. Factory workers who could fill stadia, like the Dick, Kerr Ladies F.C. Heroines who defied the most stringent prejudice, like Marta Vieira.
What do dogs dream about? Maybe looking like their owners? Having fleas and being able to make fire? The inhabitants of Lútaca wake up one day transformed into dogs; including Baltasar Bellaterra, who can't accept his new nature and discovers that losing your humanity isn't so different from losing a loved one.