The young Rutona tries to reconstruct the life of her mother Rut with whom she shared a life that was both free and intense. Rut drove a tow-truck on the Catalan highways through the seventies, eighties, nineties and noughties.
These tales, so real that some details have been eliminated for coming too close to the truth, belong to the genre known as micturition literature, and are so starkly realist they can be slipped into its subgenre – laxative text.
The Skies of Curumo is a story constructed like a house of cards.
The river, or the serpent, crosses the small village of Noaberri. Federico, the postman, is about to lose his job, but his granddaughter Iria has a plan to save it. But Don Isidoro, the mayor, hates the river, and he also hates Frederico.
In a rural Galician village the local miller, a resentful widower, observes how the worst nightmares of Galician oral tradition are becoming reality around him.
Every Thursday, three friends meet up in a bar. One is a film director who always seems to be blurring the boundary between reality and imagination.
Poor, sick and almost blind. This is how Benito Pérez Galdós, the Spanish genius of 20th century literature, lived his last years. In spite of everything, he did not lack in affection from his friends, family and neighbours.
Vega has heard a story about a little bird who treated his partner badly. Do you want to find out what happened? Do you know why there are little birds that behave like that? Do you want to know what the little bird did?
Berto is missing, and his classmates Mia, Eric, Samira and Justin at the New York Solfandi music school need to find him to make up a quintet to perform at the Fall Festival. Where can he have gone?
There is more and more waste in the sea. Lota the sperm whale wants to know where all the rubbish is coming from.