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In a distant city, there is a mystery greater than a field of daisies or a cloudless sky. It's the mystery of Lucas's smile, which appears on his face day and night, in summer and winter, 365 days a year. Well, 366 on leap years. Scientists from all over the world come to study the phenomenon without success. Not even Lucas can explain it. He's simply happy.
Here again, staring at the mirror, here again with same idea of taking his own life. In his clenched fist, Mum's sleeping pills, the only hope of escaping the hell his school mates make for him; his only reason to live the love he has for his little sister Teresa. Years of bullying at school have reduced Santiago to a shadow of himself.
This beautifully illustrated anthology brings together three of Oscar Wilde's best-known stories: The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose, and The Selfish Giant. The stories contain some of the themes that most preoccupied the author - selfishness, inequality and suffering - and consider how to counter them with love, compassion and generosity.
After a sudden death, Luciana is obliged to carry out a final wish for her grandmother: to locate three women and return to them personal objects of great sentimental value (a wedding ring, a locket and an engagement ring.) Doing this means revisiting a past which isn't hers but will shape her present life and transform her future.
A folder has been found with two hundred typed pages signed by the writer Teseo Yedra. Three decades after the author sent it to her agent, and with no record of it ever being received, experts on her writing have no doubts that this was the highly anticipated new novel of the author, who has just won a great literary award.
Señora Filomena goes out for a walk, in her Sunday best and a new hat that everyone admires. But the wind begins to blow and Filomena's hat flies off, much to her dismay. So begins the journey of this elegant and volatile hat, which on its way meets a family of mice that makes their home in its crown: kitchen and the living room downstairs; upstairs, a bed, with a springy mattress.
The route of Clementia's life was laid out before she was born, she was destined for an existence of happiness, good fortune and privilege. Born into the heart of a noble family in Madrid, she was always a happy child. However, her eyes were opened when she once overheard her grandmother, nicknamed the Spiteful, speaking through gritted teeth: "No tears today means tears tomorrow".
Discover the revolutionary scientific feats that Galileo achieves as he looks through his telescope into the skies. Where does the Earth end? What are stars made of? There's only one thing Galileo likes more than asking questions: and that is finding the answers. How can he bring the sky closer?
From Franco's prisons to Nazi extermination camps, Mercedes Núñez Targa, a twentieth-century woman of conviction, (Barcelona 1911-Vigo 1986), tells her incredible odyssey. The story is told in the first person with sincerity and talent, mixing autobiography with sociological analysis, and her testimony is made especially interesting by the female perspective of the narrative.