Siete casas en Francia

Una boda no es nada sin un novio postizo al que presentar a los padres. Dos… quizás resulte un tanto excesivo... Marissa está harta de escuchar las quejas de su madre: debería vestirse de forma más femenina, ponerse falda de vez en cuando, ¿y cuándo piensa sentar cabeza y echarse novio? Para colmo, sus padres van a celebrar los cuarenta años de matrimonio organizando una nueva ceremonia con todos sus familiares. Y ella, la hija pequeña de la familia, no quiere acudir sin pareja y verse sometida a las mismas preguntas de siempre, por lo que decide buscar un novio ocasional para el...

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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...