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Entrevías Mon Amour is a love story between a father and his son (Teo Abad, war correspondent and the story's narrator), but also between a group of single women and the hero who returns from an unjust conflict. Yet another one. It pays homage to two mythical figures from classic literature: Antigone and Iphigenia.
A Basque terrorist gets out of prison after 25 years while the leaders of the organisation negotiate a ceasefire with the government. Disappointed by his old comrades, he decides to act alone and hides in a village in the Ripollès mountains to prepare another attack.
Prince or imposter? The impossible story of the last descendent of Moctezuma. In the 16th century, one of Moctezuma's daughters was abducted by a Spanish nobleman and taken to a remote Pyrenean village, where she gives birth to a boy and begins the insane line that will come to an end in the 21st century.
What happened to Dani Santana? The journalist is in plaster from head to foot in hospital after an attempted assassination. In the hospital, which is a world with its own rules, he makes friends with Gratu, a young rugby player who has ended up in a wheelchair. Gratu, a restless patient and compulsive hacker, drags Santana to investigate certain practices that have led the health system to ruin.
Ramonet is a Gypsy who lives in the South of France. On the outskirts of a town in Ampurdan, Catalonia, he buys a second hand truck and sets out to recover the traditional nomadic life of the Gypsy people, the Manouche, which is the clan or ethnic group to which he belongs.
Nora, a married woman of forty with a secret, meets Nacho, a young biologist, on a plane and is unfaithful to her husband for the first time. This encounter forms the basis of a play of dependency and passion that Nora converts into paintings for her next exhibition.
Mariano Fortuny i Marsal was Spain's most internationally recognised artist in the 19th century. His realist painting paved the way for the advancing modernity of the Impressionists. He died unexpectedly in Rome at the young age of 36, drowned in his own blood.
This is the life of a group of friends (a photographer, an actress and a casino croupier) who will accompany Hércules Degard, protagonist and narrator, in his strange attempt to transform society through art.
Nicolau Comagran Serch, better known as the poet Nic Serch, is a young man who returns to Mallorca after a failed literary career. There, he starts working for his uncle in Hotel Indira, a somewhat decadent establishment which has belonged to his family since his grandfather was alive.
Huida al Tibet by Endika Urtaran won the XIII (2011) Desnivel Prize for Literature. Jon is a Basque chef and renegade mountaineer who, after a family upset, escapes to Tibet. Dorje, a Tibetan monk with an interest in antique charts, finds a map made by French Jesuits in 1717 with a strange annotation.