Architecture is the beginning of a transformation. The construction of a new building in the neighborhood keeps Clara and her grandfather Urbano entertained.
The Sagrada Familia has collapsed. After this catastrophe, something has broken inside Elda, to the point of making her fly back from Kobe to Barcelona to reconcile herself with a painful past.
In the springtime, the goldfinches return to Alhucemas from the desert, the same desert from which Brahim's brother is returning after participating in the Green March.
Mia and Greta are good friends. They have known each other since high school, and now share an apartment in Barcelona.
Zahra's marriage has been arranged. She is not marrying for love. She is not in love. She hardly even knows her cousin, Amir, the spoiled scion of a family with excessive ambitions.
A pregnant teenager runs away from her violent boyfriend. A couple reaches a roadblock and contemplates murder as their only way out. A woman loses her brother after cheating a drug dealer. A computer expert steals all of her lover’s savings.
The story takes place in Cañada Real, the largest shanty town in the whole of Europe.
The forest has been enveloped in total darkness for some time. Its inhabitants miss the moon and the stars but above all they miss the sun.
Emma loves books. In a few days it will be her friend Sebastian’s birthday and Emma wants to get him the best present: a ‘bombatic’ book. The problem is that nobody knows what a bombatic book is.
What can a tiny ant do, lost and alone on a mountain in a snowstorm? And why does a polar bear who should be sleeping all winter keep waking up time after time?
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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