The old nanny of the Morales family leaves, after years in retirement, to take to the mountains. When the family find her, she is holding two bundles, one under each arm: on one side is a deformed baby, and on the other a honeycomb with its bees.
The protagonist of this novel is curious and inexperienced and has an unusual, almost supernatural gift, that makes him different from everyone else. He also has an unlimited passion for the different languages of the world.
The Spanish Civil War has been a source of literary inspiration almost since the moment it finished, and The Boy and the Lost Village is the latest book to draw on its history, set around the events of the Battle of the Ebro and the Fatarella moun
Every afternoon Diana takes the bus home from school. One afternoon, she sits next to a really good-looking boy, but he has to get off at the next stop and they say good bye without exchanging names and telephone numbers.
The main character in this crime thriller is sixteen-year-old Samuel. After a series of family dramas, Samuel ends up temporarily living with his uncle Juan Domingo who runs a detective agency.
"Even when we're old," she said in self-mockery, "we never stop being the child we once were." These are the words of Aurora, the protagonist of The Smell of the Waves, but they could have been spoken by anyone.
Viria is the land of men; Gineyka is the land of women. The differences between the two nations are notable.
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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 ...