The first chapter of Cosas que pasan is called ‘The Whirlwind’, and the story as a whole has something of a whirlwind to it from beginning to end: a succession of not exactly everyday events, often awful or disturbing or stunning, which spin aroun
This books is a novel about childhood and memories, a marvellous text which transports us in time and space by means of carefully ordered images of Barcelona.
There’s a party going on on Planet Gouda and Cosmic Cat, the intrepid space explorer, doesn’t want to miss it. What should he wear? What will happen on the way there? You might find clothes, wigs, aliens, planets or meteorites!
San Basilio is one of the most iconoclastic and visionary of present-day Spanish writers, gifted with an eye for uncovering the extraordinary and enigmatic aspects of trivial areas of life.
The Variety: an island of suns surrounded by a huge cosmic vacuum. The five intelligent species that live there are trapped with no way of escaping, although they continue trying to develop their civilizations.