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Would you purchase your own immortality at the price of the life of another person? The story is set in Madrid in 1929. Diego is a womanizer, a trumpet player whose licentious existence is made up of drinking, smoking, and womanizing. He's a newcomer to the city, and he starts a new job with a group of musicians called the Cabaret of Nothing.
This biographical account of the Galician-Argentine painter and mover Luis Seoane, tells the first part of his life until his exile with the Civil War, created in the style of a comic strip.
Gianni Rodari, Tomi Ungerer, Astrid Lindgren, Juan Farias, Christine Nöstlinger, Roald Dahl and Gloria Fuertes are the characters in seven tales, a magical number for many essential figures in the history of children's literature. This narrative homage is created from the that the characters themselves have nurtured in their work: fantasy and creativity.
Milo, a naughty and adventurous little wolf, grows up thinking that one day he will suddenly become a ferocious wolf. When he discovers that this will not happen by magic and that he must train all day, like the other wolves in the pack, Milo asks himself: will I have to stop being myself in order to be fierce?
A hustler who makes a living selling billiard paraphernalia in Mexico City suddenly discovers that his lover – a teenaged girl who is still at high school – has been kidnapped. Obsessed with recovering the young woman, he throws himself into his search for her through the sewers of people trafficking and exploitation of women in Mexico.
Legend has it that humans originally possessed four legs, four arms, two faces and a single head, and that the female and male sex coexisted in them; but Zeus, threatened by the strength of these beings, cast a lightning bolt at them, so dividing them in two and condemning them to live without their half and to wander in search of it to be complete.
Why does everyone run away as soon as they see me? A hilarious picture book reflecting on habits and customs by seeing what happens when animals and humans swap roles.