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 muchacha salvaje tells the story of how a girl who comes from a nomadic tribe discovers that she is different from everyone else, and begins a journey which will bring her into contact with other tribes and people with new customs who will help
Shortly before he dies in an accident, Guillermo confesses to his friend Eusebio that he is involved in a sadomasochistic sexual relationship with a mysterious woman. Eusebio decides to look for this woman to tell her Guillermo has died.
Celia is a thirteen-year-old girl who was cryogenically frozen because she was suffering from a terminal disease, and is now returned to the 22nd century to be adopted.
Short and skinny, nobody would have imagined that such an insignificant appearance concealed possibly the best poet in the history of Spanish literature and a most accomplished person in mystical union, Saint John of the Cross.
On the eve of San Juan in 1980, the inhabitants of Calabella, on the Costa Brava, are waiting for the mythical Ava Gardner, who is going to open the town's summer cinema.
Lucha, the old woman, is about to be killed by her husband in front of the astonished eyes of her granddaughter. The the anger accumulated over the decades has its origins on a specific date: the 2nd January 1921.
This is a story about music and the basis of music knowledge, something that is always hard for a beginner, told through the story of the book’s protagonist: a small saxophone.
Lily Meyer is a writer, translator, and critic. Her translations include Claudia Ulloa Donoso’s story collections Little Bird and Ice for Martians. Her ...