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"Since 1880" is a graphic novel, a story without words that reveals the passage of time over the last 140 years. Set in a western city, on a down-town street, we observe the passing of the years from a constant vantage point, watching the changing outfits of the street's inhabitants, different family groups, types of transport and technological advances.
A novel set in Italy in the aftermath of World War II. A boy, Román Alberdi, sees the great cyclist Gino Bartali for the first time in the Tour of the Basque Country. As a child exiled by the Civil War, he will meet his idol again at the Tour de France. Later, he will go in search of him in the Tuscan town of Ponte a Ema.
For centuries, vampires and werewolves have honoured a pact that protects humans from a world of danger and darkness. William is one of them, a fearsome and lethal vampire and the only one of his kind immune to the sun. This gift has turned him into a special being. Into the hope that his species needs. Into the key that the renegades seek to free themselves from their curse. A pact. A secret.
Although Virginia never had a good relationship with her father, she feels duty-bound to visit him every day at the clinic where he lies in a coma. She is a woman obsessed with illness, and symptoms reveal more to her than words.
Who holds up the dome of the sky? Who makes sure the sun comes up every morning and goes to bed at night? In the magical world of mythology, each god has charge of a part of nature, the seas, rivers, mountains and valleys, and without them, nothing around us would be possible. And not only that! There are also gods of qualities like goodness, wisdom, hate and anger.
Alec Monroe has returned to Portmand Beach after many years. He is not the same guy he used to be, though despite the changes he is still mischievous and a lover of illegal bets and races. One night, during one of these races, he saves the life of one of the race participants.
The title of this book is not a metaphor. Two little nordic novels is exactly what it is: one little novel followed by another, both with a Nordic setting. “The story of Ø” tells how the handful of inhabitants of a tiny island in the Norwegian Sea, which is inevitably sinking due to climate change, decide to safeguard the collective memory of the land that has been their home for generation.
Sorceresses, wolf couples, ominous crows, pagan ceremonies, illegitimate children, ancient superstitions... All of these fit into a rural community where every piece is a part of the human conspiracy, from the priest to the town fool, including the mayor, the brute, the matchmaker, and even the scarecrow. A tale from the deep north that proves the old adage: still waters run deep.
Two brothers walk, observe joke and - above all - discover, in this story which uses the letters of the alphabet as an excuse to investigate a whole load of interesting things. Because there is always a place for what we know, what we don't know and what we imagine in any shared adventure.
The letter opener begins with the letters that a childhood friend wrote in the 1920s to García Lorca, the distant inspiration of his hopes and dreams. From that first moment of what was perhaps a one-way correspondence, the reader discovers this “novel in letters”.