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In the middle of a relationship crisis, the protagonist returns to the episode that marked the abrupt end of her adolescence and her family's happiest years: the sudden death of her mother in Uruguay at the end of the 1960s, when it seemed nothing could disturb a sophisticated life of open air parties, days on the beach or trips to the estates.
Fourteen year old Nasario thinks his life is bland and unfair. He feels lonely and misunderstood, and the village into which he was born has become too small. There is only one way out: to start walking and go far away, to seek his fortune and return a successful man. This journey of initiation will take him to the most unusual places and to meet the most extraordinary characters.
On the 24th of December 1951, Paul Dingle disappeared without a trace in the port of Tangier. Sixty-four years later, Flora Gascón suspects that he was the same man with whom she had an affair and fell in love in Madrid. What is the connection?
A simple, very common story. The children are bored and don't know what to do. Then suddenly, from their boredom they produce fantastic creatures with whom they spend unrepeatable moments. Don't we all agree that children are by nature creative? Recommended age: 4-6.
Diego would never have chosen his parents. That may sound like a harsh statement, but after we witness his feelings of powerlessness and loneliness, as his one year old baby sister burns up with a fever, on a night when the little Mafalda is caught between life and death, we feel some sympathy for the adolescent.
Bekman is a writer of indeterminate age (although fairly young) who lives in Barcelona. At the beginning of the book we see how he maintains an impossibly idyllic emotional relationship with Sofía; at the same time he meets and begins to see another woman, Zilina, with whom his relationship is much more imperfect and unsatisfactory. However, Bekman is reluctant to stop seeing her.
Alberto has failed five subjects and doesn't know how to tell his parents. They haven't been getting along well lately, and often have arguments. On his way home, Alberto discovers a mysterious shop called Nowhere that he's never seen before. Intrigued, he goes inside and finds a strange, elegant, elderly man, Mr. Knight, whose cold eyes are very disturbing.