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This story was inspired by some embroidery made by Práscedes, great aunt of the author. The hundred year old needlework reflects her exuberant and mischievous imagination in defiance of the mundane reality in which she lived. A delightful story full of humour and sensitivity created through the collaboration of twin spirits separated by three generations.
A manuscript found in the palace of an overthrown dictator, a mysterious Kurdish translator and an American computer scientist sick of war are the protagonists of this novel that examines - with both historic and legendary elements - two events that have marked the history of Baghdad: the Mongol invasion of 1258 and the American invasion of 2003.
The everyday life of a family is upset when Uncle Harjir comes to visit from India. He is accompanied by his pet. And what a pet! Everything changes, the neighbourhood is more interesting… Harjir is always ready to offer a helping hand. He uses his flute to solve problems and puts strange dressing on the salad.
This book tells the story of Migue, who wants to be a footballer when he grows up. But one summer he breaks his leg and can't play. His sister Susi gives him the manual 'How To Make A Book Quickly' and so our hero learns to write stories and make books. 'Migue Makes A Book' is a story with a manual inside it.
Jordi Sierra i Fabra returns with a powerful thriller of huge relevance: the objectification of women, evictions, corruption, the construction industry, the new wave of politicians, poorly paid jobs, the financial crisis... A woman is thrown into the Llobregat river, near its mouth, in the middle of the night. She is naked and has been beaten and murdered.
What do clouds smell like? The clouds in this novel smell of rot. The murder of an investigative journalist on the island of Mallorca, and the clumsy series of actions and reactions it sets off are the thread that runs through this audacious novel.
My name is Ed Shean, I'm twelve years old and I'm a detective. Yes, a real live detective, the kind that solves cases, I know that that sounds strange in the year 2102. I landed in the profession a bit by chance, or at least that's what I thought at the start...
Between the Earth and the dark world of Umbria there is a Door that opens every two hundred years, letting dangerous creatures enter our planet… In the face of this, the Door choses five girls and gives them the powers of the five magical planes to make them Mystical, the guardians of the planet.
In the middle of a relationship crisis, the protagonist returns to the episode that marked the abrupt end of her adolescence and her family's happiest years: the sudden death of her mother in Uruguay at the end of the 1960s, when it seemed nothing could disturb a sophisticated life of open air parties, days on the beach or trips to the estates.
Fourteen year old Nasario thinks his life is bland and unfair. He feels lonely and misunderstood, and the village into which he was born has become too small. There is only one way out: to start walking and go far away, to seek his fortune and return a successful man. This journey of initiation will take him to the most unusual places and to meet the most extraordinary characters.