Etiqueta: Past
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Mona Carmona and the Enigma of the Sagrada Familia Basilica (Mona Carmona y el enigma de la Sagrada Familia)
The great Basilica contains a great treasure that only a great detective will be able to discover. Mona, a precocious and brilliant thirteen-year-old Mexican teenager, is an avid reader of Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, and any type of story that challenges her intellect and confronts her with a powerful enigma. She has always wanted to…
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Wishbone
Too ugly, too chubby, too Latina?… too brave to be eclipsed. Pilar and Pili are two young women separated by an entire generation. Pili lives in 1970s Laredo, on the Mexican border in South Texas. She has a flammable personality and routinely flouts the cultural expectations of femininity in her machismo-oriented Mexican American community.…
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The Sound of your Hair (El sonido de tu cabello)
“But I promise to lie as much as it takes.” Dawn breaks in Las Tres Mil Viviendas, Seville (Spain), one of the most dangerous suburbs in all of Europe: drug supermarkets, diseases that, although officially eradicated, persist, areas forgotten by the state services… The anti-riot police seal off the Calvinist Evangelical Church,…
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Nobody´s Box (El cofre de nadie)
An exciting journey to her roots. Nadia is a cautious, introverted girl who is very content with her uneventful adolescence, and happy to have only one friend: Hugo. She was adopted in Kenya when she was a baby. Her father, a doctor who worked for the NGO Doctors Without Borders, told her…
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The Phantom of the British Invasion (El fantasma de las invasiones inglesas)
The story of the British occupation told by the ghost of a young man of the time. The ghost of Julián Expósito tells the story of his life to a boy of today, a story that takes place in Buenos Aires between 1806 and 1807. This was precisely a moment of quite agitated political…
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A Stroke of Luck (Una suerte pequeña)
Perhaps life is neither destiny nor chance, but to what extent do we have responsibility over certain events that happen to us? It has been almost twenty years since Marilé Lauría left her birthplace in Argentina following a life-changing event: the death of a child. The pain and guilt became chronic, and she knew…
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Stories at Forty (Cuentos a los cuarenta)
The age of 40: when paths alternate between reality and dreams. Forty years old, the age in which one cannot keep promising oneself that when they’re older they’ll do this or that. The age in which one must accept that this is their life, period. Stories at Forty (Cuentos a los cuarenta) is a compilation of nine stories. Eight…
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The Legend of La Peregrina (La leyenda de la Peregrina)
The most legendary jewel in all of history. The story begins two days after Richard Burton gives Elizabeth Taylor La Peregrina pearl. Taylor investigates said jewel and comes to find out about its legendary voyage throughout the lives of the world´s most emblematic characters of the last 500 years of history. In 1579,…
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… And one day Nico left (… Y un día Nico se fue)
… And one day everything was lost. Nico and Osvaldo had lived through practically everything together: from Nico´s experience when coming out to the death of family members and so on… However, from one day to the next, suddenly everything was ruined. Nico breaks up with Osvaldo, on account of no one apparent reason but many, and Osvaldo is left absolutely heartbroken. He…
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Betty Boo (Betibú)
Will this peculiar trio manage to uncover the culprit? Pedro Chazarreta, businessman suspected of having killed his wife, was found with a slit throat in his favorite armchair, with an empty whiskey bottle in one hand and a bloody knife in the other. The scene of the crime appeared to be a suicide, but the autopsy…
