A novel about the abnormality of daily life of a group of friends who try to live and love as if everything were normal. Lluís Calvo writes an unusual love story that seeks a singular epic genre and hides in the corners of each and any of us.

"La amante imperfecta, a mixture of noir literture, love story and contemporary social critique, enthrals readers with its words, its brilliant descriptions, the texture of its characters, their lies, longings and ambitions.

New York, end of the 20th century.

Melilla, the nineteen fifties. Faced with the decolonisation of Morocco, the Spanish inhabitants of the Protectorate are forced to return to the Iberian Peninsula.

Melilla, the nineteen fifties. Faced with the decolonisation of Morocco, the Spanish inhabitants of the Protectorate are forced to return to the Iberian Peninsula.

Barcelona, 1771. Sixteen-year-old Constança leaves the distant city of Lima after the death of her father, a diplomat in the service of the Viceroy, to journey to Barcelona to join her grandparents.

Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of England and France, travels to Castile in the company of her friend and confidant, the Druid Blédhri, who wants to leave a written record of the queen's eventful life.

Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of England and France, travels to Castile in the company of her friend and confidant, the Druid Blédhri, who wants to leave a written record of the queen's eventful life.

Aisabeth is the Chosen One to free the human world from the slavery to which it has been subjected. For this she will have to find a precious stone and set it in the Key of Freedom that hangs from her neck.

Leaving the city, taking the train that goes every hour from Concha station and arriving at Puentes Grandes, the Borrero family's big rambling house next to the river Almendares.