Following a long illness, a writer is invited to a biography conference in Jerusalem where the accounts of the odd lives of the other participants come as a shock.

This collection introduces four real heroes. They are important figures in the history of mankind. They are the greatest.

Vicente Bucay, prestigious scientist, finally meets his famous ancestor Isaac Newton. After years of work, he and his team have managed to bring him back to life as a clone in a secret laboratory.

Nico is a very young spy who, thanks to a mysterious magical encyclopaedia, and accompanied by his friend Mega, is able to have exciting adventures in different eras such as the Golden Age (where they join Cervantes at the Battle of Lepanto!).

HISTORICAL NOVEL The greatest Roman of his time, the Edetani Marcus Cornelius Nigrinus Curiatius Maternus, suffered the damnatio memoriae (condemnation of memory), for being a threat to Trajan, the other candidate for Caesar's throne.

Magda, a young woman aged 21, leaves her home town and decides to go and do her final year of medical school in Barcelona. Behind her she is leaving everything: a boyfriend, a family and her university degree.

The protagonist is a literature teacher and admirer of Hanif Kureishi and Philip Roth who describes his daily life to a friend who has decided to return to Morocco, their homeland, to bring up his children there.

María Casta and her teenage son Edipio shelter from the lashing storm that occurs on the same day as the death of the old parish priest, Lubencio.

El alumno de un curso de auto-­amor abandona la sala dejando un reguero de odio a su paso. En la asamblea de una casa okupa se debate sobre la propiedad de los cuerpos tras un

Three women full of anger at the world and at themselves, trapped in a life that is the opposite to ideal. Carmen, Rebeca and Susana all live lives they don't want.