Already an old man, the renowned gastroenterologist Emilio Nassar had a project: let himself starve to death. As a witness of that hidden agenda, he chose his young granddaughter, Emilia, with whom he shared long coffee talks before dying.
Who is writing the texts that the protagonist of this novel keeps finding in the most unexpected places? Firstly, within the pages of a bible, later in the walls of an abandoned lighthouse and in a doctor’s waiting room in Vienna. The hidden stories speak about him and his life: the man he could have been and the man he may end up becoming.
José Guadalupe Posada’s cavorting skeletons are for many people among the most emblematic images of Mexican art, representing a supposed mockery of and indifference to death that runs deep in Mexican culture.
A woman arrives with her twelve-year-old daughter at the apartment where her husband wants them to live while he is away on his unusually long business trips. Very soon, they discover that they are alone in the building except for an angry and taciturn doorman, her husband’s strange employee who visits them repeatedly, and the cleaning lady.
Tomás Casademunt (Barcelona, 1967) is an exceptional artist who was forged by two decades as a photojournalist. In constant quest, he has produced some remarkable series of photographs, among which La muerte en el altar occupies a privileged place.
José Guadalupe Posada’s cavorting skeletons are for many people among the most emblematic images of Mexican art, representing a supposed mockery of and indifference to death that runs deep in Mexican culture.
A woman arrives with her twelve-year-old daughter at the apartment where her husband wants them to live while he is away on his unusually long business trips. Very soon, they discover that they are alone in the building except for an angry and taciturn doorman, her husband’s strange employee who visits them repeatedly, and the cleaning lady.
This is the story of the relationship between a twelve-year old boy who remembers too much and a woman of forty who would like to forget everything.
In his book, El ángel literario, a meeting held in Madrid with the writer Andrés Trapiello, serves as the backdrop for Eduardo Halfon to narrate the beginnings of the story of a mysterious Polish boxer.
Few people were as influential in Hitler's life as the mysterious Erik Hanussen, considered, for many years, the most outstanding clairvoyant in Berlin and a personal counselor to the dictator. Two ambitious personalities who mutually used each other to achieve what they most longed for. But, everything has a price... Hanussen helped Hitler in his stunning rise to power.
Ramón Carlos Suárez y Alonso
Andy GOLDSTEIN, Natalia BERNABEU