You are on your way home from a party. It is late at night. You can hear a car driving slowly, watching you. Your mum phones your mobile. It is the last she hears from you. Your neighbours, your friends and your family start an anxious desperate search which will result in every character having to face their own fears, hope and contradictions.
Patricia has decided not to be a virgin anymore. Lucia, her best friend, wants to help her and they plan the “Virgo Operation”. Searching the proper candidate, they will face a sequence of comic situations as well as serious happenings that will force them to mature. A hilarious novel, at one time bitter, at another time funny, as life itself.
I am not a visual effect. I am not an extension, either. Nor am I the swollen effect of a punch. I am about three centimetres longer than the biggest nose you have ever seen. I am neither snub nor turned up. Absolutely nothing in me resembles a Greek nose. I am not aquiline, either, unfortunately for me. What a shame! As you can see, I am so wide and foreign, so long, that loads of things can be said about me and you won’t run out of ideas. That is why I get really annoyed when someone just calls me “big nose”—that’s so plain… No way! If you want to talk about me, you have to show imagination and class.
Seventeen-year-old Genís Gràcia thinks his life is a disaster in all through: family, high school and girls. But one day he meets Alicia, a girl from Eastern Europe who founded a secret society focussed on discussing the meaning of life. His fascination for Alicia, who is an amateur haiku writer, starts when he finds a job in a publishing house. A coming age novel in which Genís will travel through love, mystery and the discovery of himself.
Pando has just joined a skinhead group. His brother Sergio can’t stop thinking about sex even though he doesn’t have very much luck with it. Pando’s girlfriend, Rocío, falls madly in love with her new philosophy teacher Félix, who has just arrived from Peru. Marta, Sergio’s friend, feels new sensations when she meets Blinton, a boy coming from Guinea who cooperates with her to write an essay about NGOs. The book is a moving story of friendship among these teenagers who experience a particular school curse that is difficult to forget. Important things such as love, friendship, violence, racism and the discovery of sex make the book move at a captivating pace from the very first page and does not let up until the closing words, which are themselves surprising.