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1898. Young Pablo Picasso is in Horta de Sant Joan, then called Horta d’Ebre, a rural town in southern Catalonia. After wandering with a friend several weeks by wild forests, vast gorges and icy torrents, he decides to stay in a cave, where they sleep on a bed of grass and eat rice cooked on a bonfire. Near this cave Picasso meets a fifteen-year-old Gypsy painter boy with whom he has a brief affair. Before their separation, the villager gives him a sketch that shows the hiding place of an Arabic treasure hidden in 1152. According to the gipsy, he had seen it in a dream where it was prohibited, under threat of death, to try to dig it. More than a century later, a mighty art critic will ask journalist Leo Vidal to track the whereabouts of “the secret of Picasso”. An adventure that will take him to study the clues the painter left in his works and to know the environment of the famous painter. An exciting novel, based in real documents, that shows a completely unknown Picasso who practiced shamanism and was introduced into the mysteries best kept in a territory so untamed as isolated and legendary: the deep south of Catalonia and Matarrana, in Aragon.

This is the story of Balial, a Gargoyle who returns to life during a stormy night, when lightning takes him off from the stone wall to which he has been linked for centuries; the wall belongs to a famous cathedral of the revolutionated city of Paris. Stunned, the Gargoyle stamps on the floor. Its horrible appearance reflected in a puddle reminds him his destiny: to provoke fear to anybody.

Written in first-person, Historia de una gárgola is the intimate chronicle of the adventures and, basically, misadventures of a smelly, ugly, repulsive and frightening monster whose maximum pleasure is feeding on the fear that he causes, but, surprisingly, he has the power to talk and talk a lot, he can love and become a voracious reader of ancient prophecies and demonic creatures treaties.

Balial is a buffoon, a fun, eloquent and ironic narrator who shows us the humiliations suffered throughout his life. Milo J. Krmpotić explains a tale of terror and picaresque starring a postmodern anti-hero with intestinal problems that must choose between the good and the evil to save the world from the Kingdom of Horror and thus avoid the end times.

In the Barcelona of the 30’s, a family hides a terrible secret.

Habitaciones cerradas is a journey to the heart of a bourgeois family in the Modernist Barcelona, from the turn of the nineteenth century until the gates of the Civil War. History and human relationships interlace in this rich and multifaceted novel which describes the stories of three different generations along with the social and political transformations that shook those decades.

This book weaves two moments of time, past and present, shaping an intriguing dialogue that will reveal gradually, following the cunning pace created by the author’s craft, astonishing secrets hidden during all these years until now.

We are in front of an engaging, plot-driven novel which has captivated readers in fourteen languages.

Javier, radio scriptwriter, sees his routine going upside-down when reads in the newspaper that Marcel Bellaiche, an old friend from university, has been found dead in the Finisterre Lighthouse. Marcel, a dreamer son of a wealthy cradle, had become a Cambridge scholar specialized in ancient Arabic codes. According to family sources, the victim had moved to the lighthouse to study the Alexandria Library by the time he died. All his documents have vanished.

Marcel’s family lawyer visits Javier and asks him to investigate the circumstances involved in that death. His clients will take care of all the expenses, contacts and eventualities he may need. Javier accepts the mission under one condition: Sarah Brunet, an old girlfriend, will join him. Together they will get entangled in a dangerous and enigmatic adventure that will draw them into a surprising revelation about the seven great spiritual masters from the ancient world… while a dark shadow threats their inquiries and their reborn love.

In La luz de Alejandría, Francesc Miralles and Àlex Rovira share their talent to spread the sources of the inspirational knowledge. It is an informative and humanistic novel that, thanks to the craft of the authors, soon becomes an exhilarating adventure. 

Winner of the Prudenci Bertrana Award 2010

Under his dark coloured turban he is conducting the morning prayer at the mosque. Everybody respects him and listens to him with attention, even though his voice sounds thin and his body is small. He is a good Muslim, generous and upright. What his friends and neighbours do not know is that under this turban there is not a young man with good influences, as they all believe, but a girl who trembles every time a Taliban approaches her, afraid that her secret will be unveiled.

El secreto de mi turbante tells the real story of Nadia Ghulam, an Afghan girl that deceived and defied the Taliban Regime. After two years hospitalised due to the wounds produced by a bomb during the civil war, Nadia meets a new order that forbids women to get a job. To help her family, she is forced to make a radical decision: to pretend being a man during ten years. An impressive real story.