What Fede wants most in the world is to be a pirate, but he’s got a long way to go before he becomes one.

This story recounts half a century in the history of a small city in the north of Spain, from the postwar period in which the protagonist arrives there to work on the railways, up to the present day.

Felipe has a cold and he can’t stop sneezing, but he doesn’t want the medicine that will make him better. The remedies his friends come up with are a bit crazy, and don’t seem to cure him at all. Poor Felipe, he just can’t get rid of his cold!

ON THE FRONTIER, THE ONLY LAW IS IRON They called him Fierro. He lived in a secluded and lonely place on the border, that cursed place where Moors and Christians sowed death at will. His only comfort was the beehives, which he loved so much.

Tochtli likes hats, dictionaries, samurais, guillotines and the French. But Tochtli is a child, and what he wants now is a new animal for his private zoo: a dwarf Liberian hippopotamus.

An old friends’ reunion in a mountain lodge gathers a dozen men and women with nothing in common, except an obscure episode in the past in which they were all involved.

A day seemingly just like any other brings together the last living hours of four poets: Cesare Pavese, Alejandra Pizarnik, Anne Sexton and Gabriel Ferrater. Like a black box, Poem’s End records the subtle moments leading up to their deaths.

In 1998 the writer Miguel Anxo Murado was sent to Palestine by the United Nations.

A road near the Portuguese border, June 1977. Juan and Rosa, barely teenagers, have an appointment at a clandestine abortion clinic, but an accident will prevent them from reaching their destination.

Chance, love, disease, desire, madness, travel, family, relationships, fear, time, evil, depression, joy.