This is the story of Mateo and Olga, and a job application destined for Google. Mateo is interested in robots and determined to establish whether the concept of merit should be banished from human relations.
A mature woman searches her own memories looking for signs of her own personality. She accepts the gains and losses that come with the passage of time. She knows how to distinguish what can be asked of life and what cannot.
This is a novel as funny as an after-dinner chat with friends, but as aggressive as a gut punch. Part of this contradiction can be found within its protagonist, Basilio, nicknamed the Hippopotamus by his enemies.
In the words of E. M. Foster, the difference between story and plot in novels can be summed up in a single word: pain. It is the pain that creates the plot.
Set in one of the most bourgeois neighborhoods of Madrid, through the story of three generations of a family marked by an impossible love, this novel tells us about some pivotal years in the life of Spain, after the death of Franco and the politic
Originally published in 1927, this humorous novel tells the adventures of Roque Fernandez, a dull civil servant who dies and instead of arriving in heaven, finds himself reincarnated as Jean Rochestier (Roque Two), who speaks French and has a wife
Originally published in 1927, this humorous novel tells the adventures of Roque Fernandez, a dull civil servant who dies and instead of arriving in heaven, finds himself reincarnated as Jean Rochestier (Roque Two), who speaks French and has a wife
Lily Meyer is a writer, translator, and critic. Her translations include Claudia Ulloa Donoso’s story collections Little Bird and Ice for Martians. Her ...