New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2012 - E

After the murder of his wife, Matías decides to fly to New York to follow the trail of his father, who abandoned him as a child. There, in the early hours, he comes upon the wonderland designed by his father, where tramps leave the streets to take part in a weird writers’ residency and sex shops form the cornerstone of a utopian project that aims to do away with money.

It is 1936, a time of political and artistic agitation. Fascism is gaining strength in Europe. In Spain, the civil war is about to break out. Jonás leaves Madrid and travels to Cadaqués (Girona) in search of calm, but an atmosphere of mystery engulfs the small fishing village. Its inhabitants are terrorised by the painter who lives on Port Lligat beach.

The Blue Nile provides over half the volume of water flowing from the Nile into the Mediterranean. Nevertheless, almost nothing is known about the basin it flows from, the people who live next to it, the adventures it has had. Javier Gozálbez set himself the challenge of discovering what lies beneath this silence and, like the explorers of old, he started at its source in Ethiopia.