Nine-year-old Nicolás Roblealto is travelling on a boat with his parents. He's really bored. And instead of enjoying themselves, his parents spend the whole time arguing.

Summer 1977. Jaime Olalla, a shy teenager who loves literature and cinema, returns home after spending a year with the Jesuits in Burgos. He plans to move to Madrid the following September to begin his studies in medicine.

A forbidden love affair, a passionate adventure set between 19th century England and Cuba. María Lezcano's tranquil life comes to an end at the age of nineteen when she realises that she is in love with her adoptive brother, Eric.

Every book is a journey, that's what José Luis Muñoz always says when he talks about the ones he's written, many of which have taken shape during his journeys over five continents.

From now on there will be five of them in the house: five toothbrushes in the bathroom, five plates on the table. And the flat smells different.

like a bride, but no one knows who she is. The investigation finds that she had committed suicide, although the police are unable to identify the victim. Twenty-five years later, Inspector Garibaldi takes the case up again.

In a hidden corner of the vegetable garden there is a courgette hiding. He's always dressed up to the nines and wears the most stylish wig in the garden.

Nearly twenty years on, the students of Liceo de la Guardia de Blyd are busy using their magic to protect a society that has been living in peace for years.

The symbiosis between the author and his main character reaches the point where events and not a few roles are reversed. The first three people in this singular tale switch back and forth like the viewpoint of a swimmer.

In these eleven, extraordinarily unique stories, the author offers us human experiences of unusual intensity. The last time an exile sees the the city he grew up in.