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The three stories that comprise "So much for this" present an inner landscape as personal as it is universal; that is their greatest virtue. The trio of stories deals not only with moral failures, but also vital ones, so typical of our 21st century, where professional triumphs wipe out our small intimate conquests, thereby leading our protagonists to a distressing and, frequently, fruitless end.
Let go from her job at the magazine when there are cutbacks, Nuria has to face up to some of her childhood obsessions. A mysterious telephone call starts everything unravelling, her real father, from whom she and her brother Raúl have heard nothing in years, has reappeared and is in intensive care.
The year of our Lord 1212. Europe is in full turmoil when an assorted troop of Crusader children, led by the shepherd boy Esteban de Cloyes, advances through the kingdom of France with a feverish and joyful atmosphere. Their goal: Jerusalem, which they intend to liberate without any weapons, using only the strength of faith.
This is the story of two siblings. Sixteen-year-old Lolo and his older sister Lena, who is addicted to crack and heroin. She left home a year ago. One day, Lolo runs into her at Barajas airport where she is making money through petty theft. In order to convince her to return home with him, Lolo decides to go with Lena to the ghetto where she buys drugs and appears to live.
"I'm your sister, Irene." Sixteen years after abandoning his family, Daniel receives this message on Facebook. His past is about to interrupt his present life and make him question his motivations for not having gone back.
Criptana Senzi, la Alondra, is a great soprano but she has been ill with Alzheimer's for many years. Pedro Bennasar, the journalist charged with writing her biography must submerge himself in the past of this woman without memories. Why has Criptana Senzi lost her memories? What did she want to forget? What has she forgotten?
There are lots of things that could make a child afraid. The protagonist of this story is afraid of getting lost, being alone in the woods, fantastical creatures... but there's one thing that really terrifies him: the dark! Being afraid makes you very scared, but this book won't make you scared. On the contrary, it will help us conquer our fear!
Traffic is an original story of two boys; one from a middle-class family who suffers from heart problems, the other working-class and healthy, whose lives cross in tragic events that affect them and all those around them. With no pretension of social commentary, and even less of judgment, this novel presents two settings that are so close and yet so distant.
Carolina, a young journalist, is commissioned to interview Martín Vera, a famous and mysterious painter whom everyone thought was dead - until he resurfaced from nowhere when he exhibited one of his paintings at the Prado Museum.
On Saturday 1st January when they found Erik's butchered and drowned body in Lake Michigan the wife of this well known Mexican Hollywood actor, Maya, was hiding in a dressing room playing around with Benedict her charming English lover whom she'd contracted after getting fed up with Erik.