New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2012 - L

Micio Kaku could be a modern-day Jules Verne, a man who predicts the future as if it were science fiction. But this isn’t so. He is a great promoter of science who has made scientific rigour his standard and who runs a modern laboratory in which scientists from all over the world have carried out research.

Following the death of Prosper Merimée in Cannes in 1870, a number of literary sketches, first drafts and unfinished manuscripts were found in his study, with no certainty as to whether or not he intended to publish them.

Nes is a 48 year old psychiatrist who lives with the burden of an abnormally accelerated perception of time. The daughter of a surgeon in a provincial city, she comes from a family which is divided into two categories: the fast and the slow

 A person is buried alive, a young man disappears mysteriously, a fake spiritualist session does not turn out as expected, a remote village in the Amazon is dominated by a diabolical being and attacked by two strange men…The time has come. The dreaded time is approaching and a series of unusual events all over the world are leading up to it. But what is the black frontier?