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Humankind is naturally restless. It loves unostentatious beauty. It seeks knowledge tenaciously. And one of its preferred ways to satisfy these desires is to travel: seeing strange places and the pleasure of the novel. On my travels I have seen the world around me as an album of geopoetic landscapes.
Adult life has separated the attractive Palas from her younger half-brother, Hector, who lives in London. But a family occasion will reunite them, obliging both to consider why they seem to be condemned either to be completely separated or completely united, because the possibility of a prudent distance does not exist for them.
Aynor, the tyrant who governs the light-filled northern zone of the planet Palmyra, plans to take control of the dark southern zone, currently inhabited by violent rebels, and become the most powerful man on the planet. But his plans are disrupted by Zephyra, his own daughter, and in particular by Jano, a young man destined to make a legend going round Palmyra come true.
Childhood has not been easy for Pedrito Ochoa. He has grown up in a hospice run by extremely strict nuns, without contact with the outside world and the great transformation Spain underwent in the 1970s. His destiny will change when he is unexpectedly adopted by his grandparents and he begins to study alongside the children of the most important families during the end of Francoism.
The unforeseen incidents that befall a little boy trying to create an album of farts, trumps and rippers. As nobody in his family wants to explain what a 'fart' is, he decides to find out for himself and classify them. A story that aims to break taboos and please both children and adults.
An entertaining reflection on art whose main character is one of the most important geniuses of the 20th century. France, 1953. Seventy-two-year-old Picasso, now living on the Costa Azul, has long been the most famous 20th century artist, a restless genius who creates almost compulsively.
When Marta dies in Toulouse in 2004 and her will is read, her granddaughter Marthe hears with astonishment that Marta had a son during the Spanish Civil War who was given up for adoption and that she has to track him down. Marthe hires the detective Ricardo Cupido who finds him in Toledo: he is called a Alejandro, is extremely rich and is, in turn, father to an illegitimate daughter.
Marta is a normal thirteen-year-old girl. She lives in Betulia, a tiny country where nothing exciting ever happens. She's interested in all the usual things for her age (the music group Euphoria, going out with her friends) and she thinks politics is deadly boring until, to get her own back on her arch-rival at school, she stands as a delegate.
Puncho has just moved to a new house in the country and, like any amateur lover of plants, he decided to cultivate his own kitchen garden. But something strange happens to the seeds. Why, despite all his care, don't they sprout?