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Violeta, a young illustrator, has reached a dead end: her sentimental life is fading like a flower and she does not have the strenght to save it. To take some air and clear her mind, she accpets an unusual invitation: to spend some days at a country house with some classmates she has not seen for ten years. Apart from finishing some of her flower watercolors that she was hired to paint, the protagonist of this book will face some of her ghosts from the past. Among them is Mario, a love from her teens that gets stronger every day they are together in the house, under the constant rain which will sprout in them a feeling long asleep. 

It isn’t just Dracula. From Greek islands to Haiti, from Ceylon to Transylvania, traditions host dead alive who live with the humans to suck their life and to offer them eternity. The myth of the vampire is universal and has no end. It is often considered as an evil sign or as the metaphor of the solitude and of the loneliness, since vampires kill all that they love. But many times, vampires are just the inhabitant of the outer world, hidden in us.

Someone is watching the Albas sisters from the dark. This person knows why Natalia Albas disappeared when she was a child and why her sister Rebeca has disappeared now, in her adolescence. When Rebeca, given up for dead, starts sending threatening messages, a disturbing investigation begins to solve the mystery. Why do the Albas family seem to be cursed? Jealousy, blame, anathemas… there could be many reasons, but only one is true. And the real, terrifying truth is known only to the lord of the shadows.  

Freedom does not exist. Life only offers two choices: Forming part of the group or dying  … That is what is in the mind of Miki, a young man from Barcelona who wants  to escape from his fate.  Doing his homework, completing his studies, finding a decent job….Or selling drugs, driving around at full speed, thinking you’re the king of the world?  Where does your future lie, Miki?  You have two choices, just two. “Ketchup” is a literary vision of the abandoning of ethics on the part of young people living in the our cities, a novel that paints a picture of the emptiness of a lost generation with the precision of a chronicle, a world that the reader will instantly recognise if he happens to be travelling on any evening urban train.

Ramon Cardona is a singer of boleros and tangos in the village fiestas. But it hasn’t always been this way.Twenty years earlier,before the war,he dreamed that all would be different:a happy future in a happy world.The war changed everything.The war forced him to leave his native city,Terrassa.And it also distanced him from Bruna.She remained there and suffered.For twenty years  she has done all she could to forget many things.Now she’s tired and she hasn’t moved from the neighbourhood.She has not seen Ramon ever again.One day in 1956,Ramon Cardona returns to the city.The city of factories and of the sirens,the city of immigration and work.He returns disillusioned and confused.He thinks he only returns to sing but he will find his past.The streets,the people,his own memory. Bruna also.In one day both Ramon’s and Bruna’s lives,indeed of all these characters,will change.Suddenly all that seemed forgotten will be unearthed.The blood,the deaths,the strength but also the rebellion,desire and love.