The young teacher was on her way to a school in the Amazon jungle and she arrived laden with books. What her student's liked best was for her to read them stories.
Álvaro's house is the highest in the city. He studies the moon from his balcony every night and wonders what it is that causes it to wane... A lovely story about wishes, the importance of caring and, most of all, friendship.
In 1954, after going into exile in 1939 and being taken in by Dr. Goldstein's family for 15 years, the young psychiatrist Germán Velázquez returns to Spain to work in the women's asylum in Ciempozuelos.
An anxious mother gives in to wretched temptation on a nocturnal flight; a young girl reveals the terrible mystery behind an innocent circle of light on the ceiling; a psychiatrist discovers the symptoms of a remarkable phobia concealing the colle
In August 1926 the wealthy Laparra family are enjoying a day on the beach in Biarritz. Magdalena Laparra takes her two children and walks into the sea with the intention of drowning herself.
La Moneda, September 11 is, above all, a collection of testimonies.
Andrés is fifteen and has just lost his father, Fernando. A respected police inspector, Fernando was found dead of a barbiturate overdose in the swimming pool of the Birmania Hotel, which suggests the possibility of suicide.
La Palma (1850-1946) is the setting through which Petra, the moneylender of Villa de Mazo, passes with the people in her life. The hunger that forces emigration to Cuba.
Vanesa is a modern princess but also a dreamer who lives in the clouds, in the kingdom of Babia alongside giraffes, witches and soap bubbles.
In a Native American village, activity comes to a halt when Shep slices off the tip of his thumb with a blade.
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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