Cecilia is the only person who visits Silvio, her best friend's grandfather, a man who jealously guards the mystery of a legendary life which he has never wanted to share with anyone.
In crisis-ridden Madrid, where the nights are "a place of frustrated emotions, dreams and passions shattered against the wall of a bar", a series of characters on the edge of another crisis, the thirty-something crisis, are looking for a direction
Enero's life seemed to run smoothly along a pre-determined path: studies, work, wedding, mortgage... until everything went wrong and he ended up locked up in a psychiatric hospital for five years.
Ten stories by ten Galician women writers who range in narrative style, experience, recognition and other aspects, but are united by their willingness to speak up, with their own voice, placing women at the centre of the story.
Ten stories by ten Galician women writers who range in narrative style, experience, recognition and other aspects, but are united by their willingness to speak up, with their own voice, placing women at the centre of the story.
'Between Net Curtains' (Premio Nadal 1957) portrays the atmosphere, conservatism and hypocrisy beneath the surface of a Spanish provincial city in the middle of the previous century.
1940s Southern Andalusia. Anti-Franco guerrilla warfare is being conducted from the Ronda and Grazalema mountains to the Campo de Gibraltar. Largomayo joins this group of 'maquis', led by Bernabé López Calle, also called Comandante Abril.
When Media Vaca started out back in 1998, the editor was not sure what sort of books they wanted to publish, but it was very clear which ones wouldn't be included: those that had been done a thousand times, like Little Red Riding Hood!