Madrid. Any Irish pub. Beer and more beer against a soundtrack spurned by two very different generations. He is a piano teacher in his forties, who escaped autism thanks to music. She is an ex-pupil in her twenties and has just signed the mortgage papers with her third-rate musician boyfriend.
In 1929 Joan Marín published the story of his journey in a luxury cruise liner, in a cheery and optimistic account that we have now managed to recover, eighty years later, in order to offer modern-day readers a chance to transport themselves into the golden period of the great cruise liners.
Martina, the 16 year-old-girl who is writing a letter to a boy in her class (which is the novel we are reading) defines the relationship with her parents and with the world in general in relation to music. Her relationships with the adults in her life (both belligerent and amiable) are always mediated through a legendary song or unforgettable album.
Who was the first person to discover that the World was round? Who was first to navigate it? Who the first to leave it to reach the Moon? Did Persians invent Paradise? Did the Black Death help to develop the printing press? Did Indians invent the number zero? Did the Chinese come up with the idea for the first Earthquake detector?
Diccionario de 1.200 términos relacionados con el sector del vino en español y en inglés. Define cada término y se clasifica en las cuatro grandes áreas que comprende el sector del vino: viticultura, enología, cata y comercialización.
