This book was created as a guide for boys on their road to puberty and maturity. It offers a real, natural image of boys and masculinity, free from stereotypes, which welcomes the expression of feelings such as sadness through tears.
One weekend of torrential rain, four people come together in La Solana, a small Mediterranean village. Victor and Valeria’s marriage is in crisis, and their business trip looks as though it may really be the end of their relationship.
“Democracy and the Constitution, which were born almost at the same time as we were, told us that everyone had the right to be whatever they wanted to be. All of society agreed and came together to preserve our hopes and dreams.
"I've always suffered from poor sleep. It is one of the fundamental facts of my life." This is the opening of a book about the experience of those who, like the author, have trouble sleeping.
El mal dormir, as the subtitle indicates, is an extended essay about sleep, wakefulness and fatigue. In short, it’s about insomnia, although the author tries not to overuse that word so as not to treat the subject matter in a clinical or scientific way.
In 1864, Antoni Riubò enlists as a doctor on board the brig Verge de Montserrat, a commercial ship making the crossing between Barcelona and the Americas, by way of Africa.
If you were lucky enough to cross it, you would leave the sea behind you. In front of you, thousands of shops, filth, monotony, and sadness. Every day is the same as every other… Until one day everything changes.
Stella must accept her destiny when, on the day of her sixteenth birthday, she discovers a secret which will shake the foundations of her peaceful life in a town on the Mediterranean coast.
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Lily Meyer is a writer, translator, and critic. Her translations include Claudia Ulloa Donoso’s story collections Little Bird and Ice for Martians. Her ...