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.
Young Fanya and her grandmother Simone, the healer, find a strange human-like creature named Sharduk lying wounded and unconscious on the beach. Simone recognises him as a spirit of the waters and she and Fanya try to save his life.
After Franco's victory, the young republican doctor Guillermo García is able to continue living in Madrid, thanks to a false identity organised for him by his best friend, a diplomat whose life Guillermo saved in 1937 and who in 1946 comes home on
In Los parientes de Ester, Luis Fayad enters the social fabric of Bogota in the late sixties and early seventies to tell the decline of a family that clings to tradition.
The wealthiest family in an inland city is composed of the Wife, her Husband, their two young children, the Wife's mother and Amalia, the maid. In the large house where they live, everything is impeccable but appearances can be deceptive.
The chance discovery of an unusual, apparently worthless painting in the rubble is, in fact, the tip of the iceberg of a collection of extremely valuable, eccentric, irreverent works of art that a group of enlightened people hid during the War of
'Nobody loved the Pissimbonis. They lived in an ivy-clad house at the top of a hill, far enough away from the other houses for everyone to think of them as living outside the town.
Vicente Friman is the new kid. It’s happened before, so he’s not too worried. But this time is different. This time there’s Barbara, the leader of the Protectors. Or so she thinks.
Sofi lives with her parents and her grandfather in a house near to the wood. Sometimes her grandfather disappears for hours or even days, and returns home seeming very happy, albeit dirty.