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Madrid, 1935. A young American woman arrives at the Residencia de Estudiantes, where the creme de la creme of Republican intellectuals get together. Real and fictional characters meet on the city's streets. The famous evenings spend in the 'colina de los chopos' attract arists, musicians, dandys, poets, dreamers and students from all over.
He is a ten-year-old boy, curious, dreamy and highly imaginative. He would be like all other little boys, if his entire life wasn't spent shut up in an impenetrable cellar with his parents, his two siblings and his grandmother, all horribly disfigured by a mysterious fire no one speaks of.
Towards the end of the 18th century, the young Creole girl Antonia de Salis meets a fascinating Venezuelan soldier in Russia, Francisco de Miranda, the father of Hispano-American independence.
Young Mario Lucas is fascinated by the world of the stars. He was absolutely certain that in one of those far off places, on the Pulsars, lived "The Little Green Men". These pacific, galactic beings, who observe everything from high above, would come down to Earth to sort out the mess the humans were in. It was just a matter of waiting.
Maruja Sanz is a young girl of humble origins from Valgonzález, a small Castilian town near Segovia. At the end of the sixties she decides to abandon her roots and the life she has led with her parents with the aim of belonging to a different world, one she assumes to be much better, and climb the social ladder.
Patricia is a young, up-and-coming catwalk model. During a flight to a job, she gets to know Viviana, the woman in the adjoining seat, who warns her to be careful as someone around her wants her dead.
The world is ending. The rust-coloured sky drips acid rain over covered cities incapable of communicating with each other. Peter lives in Madrid, one of the few big cities that have survived a series of natural disasters and wars. His girlfriend is kidnapped and he confronts the kidnappers, a criminal organisation and his father-in-law's anger, the mayor of Madrid.
Fate had marked them out since before their births, but they had to experience the death throes of their whole world i before understanding their mission. Now their moment has come.
Daughter of Emperor Maximilian of Habsburg and Maria of Austria, archduchess Margaret is the central figure of this historical and literary novel, together with the composer Tomás Luis de Victoria.
Sick of being mistreated by her pimp, a prostitute leaves him and meets a cinema usher, a sinister man whose pleasure at work consists of controlling the couples feeling each other up in the back row by shining his torch at them. For a week, these two characters maintain a peculiar relationship that will end up in tragedy.