It tells eight real stories that take place during the civil war, stories rescued from those who, in order to survive, had to leave Spain to try their luck in another country.

In the outskirts of Prague a woman’s body appears: her throat has been slit and her eyes gouged out. Over the following weeks, one by one, more women’s bodies keep appearing with different limbs amputated each time.

A fish called Yorick and a kitten called Montaigne. A young philosophy student who corners her old professor in the corridors of the faculty.

Ernesto, a writer always trying to find inspiration for his masterpiece, finds an old brass safe that contains a photo of a young couple, Mercedes and Andrés, along with a series of love letters.

In an unknown region, lost in the mists of the Middle Ages, lives Baronet Otto Pette, a man committed in body and soul to the ever difficult task of forgetting the past itself.

The story of "The magic candles" has not been written by anyone yet. It cannot be found in any bookshop.

Adriana llora a su madre mientras cuida de su padre enfermo. Congelada por el dolor, temiendo la desaparición de su familia, advierte la carga emocional que arrastra.

An estate agent with a passion for her job is preparing a house for a visit from some buyers when she runs into a seven-year-old boy who doesn’t blink.

The notes of “Adiós Nonino”; the tears of Máxima de Holanda during her tryst with Prince William; the photo that she discovers, among the guests, the face of a dangerous activist daughter of a German banker.

Laura in the City of Saints is an undeniable classic of 20th century Catalan fiction. It tells the story of an attractive, inexperienced woman who hopes to fulfil herself by marriage to a rich heir from a provincial city: Comarquinal.