A novel about the abnormality of daily life of a group of friends who try to live and love as if everything were normal. Lluís Calvo writes an unusual love story that seeks a singular epic genre and hides in the corners of each and any of us.

"La amante imperfecta, a mixture of noir literture, love story and contemporary social critique, enthrals readers with its words, its brilliant descriptions, the texture of its characters, their lies, longings and ambitions.

New York, end of the 20th century.

Melilla, the nineteen fifties. Faced with the decolonisation of Morocco, the Spanish inhabitants of the Protectorate are forced to return to the Iberian Peninsula.

Barcelona, 1771. Sixteen-year-old Constança leaves the distant city of Lima after the death of her father, a diplomat in the service of the Viceroy, to journey to Barcelona to join her grandparents.

Aisabeth is the Chosen One to free the human world from the slavery to which it has been subjected. For this she will have to find a precious stone and set it in the Key of Freedom that hangs from her neck.

Leaving the city, taking the train that goes every hour from Concha station and arriving at Puentes Grandes, the Borrero family's big rambling house next to the river Almendares.

When his mother dies, Óscar travels to Berlin to take charge of her belongings. He hasn't had word from her in years because, in fact, she was living with another woman and had turned her back on her son.

On the eve of San Juan in 1980, the inhabitants of Calabella, on the Costa Brava, are waiting for the mythical Ava Gardner, who is going to open the town's summer cinema.

"I feel like those voluntary exiles – if that isn't a contradiction in terms – who never find peace anywhere because, at heart, they have not severed their ties with the one thing it is impossible break with: ourselves." A Peruvian immigrant write