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The residents of the village at the top of the mountain love living there. They get sunshine and fresh air every day, and they also enjoy spectacular views. There's no doubt about it: their village is the best. Their neighbours in the village down below are proud of the river that runs past their houses and of the fields it allows them to farm. Their village is the best, they proudly declare.
Has world history been fair to women? Have they been given the significance they deserve? How often do we read that the champions of discovery and conquest have been men, never women? Through neglect or historic omission women have often, very often, remained in the background. Almost always in fact, except in a few special cases. Anayansi is one of these.
After robbing a bank in the seventies, two thieves kill a hostage. The novel begins in present-day Barcelona, when one of the robbers is murdered. The other thief tries to get ahead by murdering the man who must be the avenger: David Miralles, father of the boy killed during the robbery.
A Wave that Tastes of Fish tells the life story of a 34-year-old woman, Mamen, whose experience on the margins leads her to solitude and isolation, a spider's web that will gradually slip away from her after spending a few days with a girl who lives in a lighthouse on the Mediterranean coast. A place where nothing and no one are what they seem.
The work follows the life story of a woman as fascinating as she was unknown: the Spanish singer Lina Codina, muse and wife of the brilliant Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev. The first years of their marriage were spent in the Paris of the avant-gardes, where the couple moved in the most exclusive intellectual and artistic circles.
“Una posibilidad entre mil” is an autobiographical story. Cristina and Miguel Ángel become parents for the first time, but the future of young Laia is in danger from the first moments. Hospitals, rehabilitation centers and doctors then become their daily routine.
The story of a girl who to her father has always been a pink princess. But she never liked pink, and even though the older she got the more she protested, and her grandmother also tried to explain, he could never understand. So one day she had an idea. She bought him some glasses. Special ones, that can see everything.
Based on the true story of the great Cantabrian cyclist Vicente Trueba, nicknamed The Flea of Torrelavega. He was the first King of the Mountain in the history of the Tour de France (in 1933) and one of the Spanish pioneers who demonstrated their prowess beyond the Pyrenees. Using a chorus of fictitious voices, the book revisits different episodes in Vicente Trueba's life.
Having recently left hospital, Celia doesn't remember her home. Accompanied by her daughter, who tries to protect her from the truth, Celia will try to recover and return to normal after suffering a stroke and waking from a coma with selective amnesia.
Over the course of 2018, six people linked to the world of books are interviewed by a BBC team at different times and in different locations. In their testimonies collected in that report, they describe their vision of literature while narrating the same story: in August 1940, Richard Lamm, a crew member of a German bomber, survived the downing of his plane in the middle of the Battle of Britain.