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In the outskirts of Prague a woman’s body appears: her throat has been slit and her eyes gouged out. Over the following weeks, one by one, more women’s bodies keep appearing with different limbs amputated each time.
As in the ancient legends of the Orient, the author invites us to discover a singular universe made up of secrets and shadows by a cat who wants to achieve wisdom, a sultan who wants to rule the kingdom of silence and a dumb carpet weaver who expresses herself in words of silk. This all takes place in Istambul, a magical city of labyrinths.
There has always been a very fertile relationship between literature and cinema. The first great directors, such as Griffith and Eisenstein claimed that they worked like storytellers of realist fiction and, in turn, great literary authors have recognized cinematic techniques in their work.
Nothing is as it seems, says Teo, who, in keeping with this phrase, conceals his own name. He is 27 years old, still lives with his mother, suffers from a mild form of lupus and worships Lenny Bruce. Shut up in his tiny room, he practices escapism until one day the rain drives him into a bar, where he meets Lena.
Adrian is a strange teenager. Not just because of his autistic behaviour but because he is a seventh son and in the tradition of the mountains that means he is a werewolf. This, and the strange fits he suffers at night, earn him incomprehension on all sides.
Susanna gets dressed on her own for the first time. Everything goes perfectly until her other white sock can’t be found anywhere in the room. Where can it be? Have fun joining Susanna on her search! This is a bilingual edition in Spanish and English, with a useful glossary of colours and numbers. Recommended for children from the age of 5.
Jonás swims every day, while on the other side of the glass some slim shadows appear to be observing him. Swimming is Jonás' link with his former life: he hardly sees his parents and he has no other family. One morning his fatheer tells him that his mother has disappeared: she hasn't answered the telephone for two months, and he has been to her flat to find it empty.
On returning from Burkina Faso, Patricia shows her writer friend her travel snaps. The picture of two children who silently approach tourists with a tomato can round their necks and a smile on their faces spurs the writer on to create a story with one of them, Essein, as the main character.
From his award-winning restaurant El Celler de Can Roca (Girona, Spain), the young rebellious creator of desserts surprises us with a book full of his original creations, organised by the four seasons of the year.