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Sofi lives with her parents and her grandfather in a house near to the wood. Sometimes her grandfather disappears for hours or even days, and returns home seeming very happy, albeit dirty. And that's not the only strange thing about him: there are his glasses, those very strange glasses. . . . What is her grandfather hiding? What is he really up to?
London, 1871. Young Aurelius feels as though he is languishing away at the family's tavern, living a life as grey as his father's. However, one morning he discovers his destiny: Houdini, the great magician, announces his arrival in London with an array of colourful posters. From that point on, Aurelius becomes obsessed with introducing himself to Houdini and becoming his apprentice.
Adelaida García Morales is one of the most mysterious figures in recent culture. The celebrity she gained through her books The South (adapted by Víctor Erice for the famous film of the same name) and The Silence of the Sirens, made the silence in which the author chose to immerse herself all the more ominous. When she died in 2014 her death went lqrgely ignored.
Junior, the poly-addicted son of the former mayor Roger Lobus, decides to return to the city of Sierpe where, after suffering an overdose that is on the point of killing him, he finds out that his father has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. This coincidence, along with Junior’s old obsession with death, will drive to him to rebuild his damaged relationship.