Los niños del agua

La luz prodigiosa es una novela nostálgica y vital a la vez, una indagación en la memoria que representa todo un canto a la imaginación. Como el propio autor afirma: “la luz prodigiosa, dispuesta a obsequiarnos con su maravillosa virtud de permitir que nuestra imaginación se abra en libertad”. Todo un homenaje a nuestra capacidad de pensar, de soñar, de sentir. Las tres virtudes que, seguramente, nos hacen más humanos.

Set in the outskirts of Madrid, the action of this fragmentary, autobiographical novel takes place as much in the recession-plagued Spanish capital as it does within the narrator’s own head. Though nominally about the protagonist’s drive to create a movie with the aid of dreamers and idealists similar to himself, the book has larger aspirations; it seeks to make a point about the process of creation itself, and specifically the creation of cinema, and vividly, poignantly portrays the blunders and the sense of loss of post-adolescence, but also its fleeting glories and eternal promises of...

A foreigner on the Greek island of Brinos, alone in spite of being surrounded by young people who come to visit her house fascinated by the beauty of her body and her strange wisdom, the woman of Andros takes on the role of cult courtesan, and in a rigidly patriarchal society, finds internal strength to confront the sickness and most terrible gift of the gods.

Islandia, siglo VII. Thorolf y Thorbrand, dos familias rivales, dominan el territorio del país. Thorolf y su hijo Arnkel son dueños del Fjord Swan y del gran bosque Crowness, mientras que Thorbrand y sus seis hijos poseen las tierras interiores.Un...