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On the 24th of December 1951, Paul Dingle disappeared without a trace in the port of Tangier. Sixty-four years later, Flora Gascón suspects that he was the same man with whom she had an affair and fell in love in Madrid. What is the connection?
A simple, very common story. The children are bored and don't know what to do. Then suddenly, from their boredom they produce fantastic creatures with whom they spend unrepeatable moments. Don't we all agree that children are by nature creative? Recommended age: 4-6.
Diego would never have chosen his parents. That may sound like a harsh statement, but after we witness his feelings of powerlessness and loneliness, as his one year old baby sister burns up with a fever, on a night when the little Mafalda is caught between life and death, we feel some sympathy for the adolescent.
Bekman is a writer of indeterminate age (although fairly young) who lives in Barcelona. At the beginning of the book we see how he maintains an impossibly idyllic emotional relationship with Sofía; at the same time he meets and begins to see another woman, Zilina, with whom his relationship is much more imperfect and unsatisfactory. However, Bekman is reluctant to stop seeing her.
Alberto has failed five subjects and doesn't know how to tell his parents. They haven't been getting along well lately, and often have arguments. On his way home, Alberto discovers a mysterious shop called Nowhere that he's never seen before. Intrigued, he goes inside and finds a strange, elegant, elderly man, Mr. Knight, whose cold eyes are very disturbing.
West, You Will Cry For Me is a novel tracing the investigation of a small event as it gradually opens onto the greatest jihadist threat ever suffered by a country.
Osa the bear is alone and she makes the most of the last few warm days of autumn to eat fruit. She doesn't like the cold air of winter so she takes refuge in her den where she sleeps and sleeps. When spring arrives, Osa already has company.
Humankind is naturally restless. It loves unostentatious beauty. It seeks knowledge tenaciously. And one of its preferred ways to satisfy these desires is to travel: seeing strange places and the pleasure of the novel. On my travels I have seen the world around me as an album of geopoetic landscapes.
Adult life has separated the attractive Palas from her younger half-brother, Hector, who lives in London. But a family occasion will reunite them, obliging both to consider why they seem to be condemned either to be completely separated or completely united, because the possibility of a prudent distance does not exist for them.
Aynor, the tyrant who governs the light-filled northern zone of the planet Palmyra, plans to take control of the dark southern zone, currently inhabited by violent rebels, and become the most powerful man on the planet. But his plans are disrupted by Zephyra, his own daughter, and in particular by Jano, a young man destined to make a legend going round Palmyra come true.