The most important things in Lara's life are her friends and music and she is planning to start a DJ double act with her best friend Martina. But suddenly one morning everything changes.
Julio Cortázar, long and lean, raven-haired, horn-rimmed glasses, the countenance of the eternal adolescent, and indomitable.
Irene is in the later stages of her life and remembers something that happened when she was a very little girl that changed her life forever.
Madrid, 2014. Sarah is anguished by the lack of news about the father of her three year-old daughter, Sham: he has disappeared in Damascus.
Madrid, 2014. Sarah is anguished by the lack of news about the father of her three year-old daughter, Sham: he has disappeared in Damascus.
For a few weeks there have been rumours about strange events that have no explanation.
Grandad is very ill and Granny is looking after him: she makes his food, she gives him his pills, she bathes him and keeps him company. Grandad has lots of fun with his granddaughter.
A jungle filled with animals and the occasional human being, where some live through exciting, at times dangerous situations, all of which are narrated by Horacio Quiroga with a large dose of humour.
Coming of age in a Spain in the throes of 'apertura' (the political and economic 'opening' that took place in Spain during the 1980s) that followed the Transition from dictatorship to democracy.
'The Year of Los Saicos' uses sharp humour to paint a portrait of the internal workings of Liman society in 1964 (the year the eponymous rock group first came to prominence), trapped between respect for hypocritical rules and the degradation of it
Lily Meyer is a writer, translator, and critic. Her translations include Claudia Ulloa Donoso’s story collections Little Bird and Ice for Martians. Her ...
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