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The novel about the life of Hedy Lamarr, an invaluable woman in the history of the 20th century.

Friedrich “Fritz” Mandl is a young austrian who takes over his father’s destroyed arms factory at the age of 19. In just a decade, he amassed one of the largest fortunes on the planet. He is rich, eccentric, powerful, womanizer, and cunning. A surreal character, adored and feared by many. During the pre-war period, in the 1930s, its clients list included Mussolini, Hitler and Franco, among others. His close friends included names such as Truman Capote, Hemingway, Orson Welles, Eva Perón and General Perón.

In 1933, when he saw the movie Ecstasy, where the actress Hedwig Kiesler performs the first complete female nude and the first orgasm on the big screen, he falls in love with her.

Hedy, was a beautiful and gifted young woman, a student of engineering and theater. He also had a life full of lovers. After filming Ecstasy, she marries Fritz and they live an unbridled passion; But then, due to infidelity and jealousy, the relationship takes a dangerous turn. He locks her in his castle in Salzburg, where he organizes events, meetings and business with politicians, businessmen and judges.

Hedy manages to escape and thus begins his flight across Europe. On board an ocean liner bound for New York, he meets Louis B. Meyer, president of Metro Goldwyn Meyer; Before even reaching their destination, they sign a contract and she becomes Hedy Lamarr, the most beautiful woman in the cinema, who will succeed as a famous actress in Hollywood.

But Hedy is not only beauty and glamor, she is also power, intelligence and work. In addition to cultivating her career as an actress, she studied engineering and invented and patented a communications system to remotely guide torpedoes and ensure contacts between the allies during the war. The system we use today to communicate with mobile phones, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS is based on this technology.

A true story that takes place between a Europe at war, the United States and Argentina.

Any life can change in a minute

In the winter of 1943, Madrid wakes up in the ruins of war. In the suburbs of the city, Daniel hides his true identity and, with it, his past in the conflict. In the other Madrid, the one of the cafés and the shop windows of Calle Serrano, Julita begins to study literature at university and feels the need to separate herself from the future her family had always planned for her.

The minute it takes for two trains to collide

United by the force of destiny, the two young people will coincide in a long journey on the express train from Madrid to La Coruña, fleeing from what others have planned for them. There they will meet and their complicity will be born, without knowing that the train is headed for a catastrophe that will change their lives forever.

The minute it takes for two glances to cross paths

Life in a Minute rescues a sadly unknown episode of the post-war period, the tragedy of a train crash that claimed hundreds of victims and which was silenced by the Franco regime’s press. It does so to show us that love and life can sometimes be born in the rubble.

After Verlaine’s death, the poem that Rimbaud gave him, La chasse spirituelle, travelled from France to Reus, and from Reus to Móra la Nova, where it remained secretly under a floor tile of Esteve’s family oil mill. Luis Esteve was commissioned by his grandfather Antoni to be the secret curator of the poem, a poem that is in fact a grimoire, as Verlaine had insinuated with “sharp psychological intuitions” and “strange mysticisms.” In the course of the novel we will discover how Rimbaud wrote the poem and the rest of his journey.

Halfway between the literary thriller and the historical setting novel, El misteri d’Arthur Rimbaud offers a series of chapters that the reader can read according to the order offered by the author or the one he owns decides.

“Set dies de Gràcia” takes us to the industrial Barcelona of the late 19th century where a terrible revolt took place known as the “Revuelta de las Quintas”. Seven days in which the district of Gracia remained on the warpath by refusing to participate in the draw that would condemn not only the future soldiers but also their impoverished families.

In the Spain of the 1950s, the first generation of women began to practice medicine. They were the pioneers in a territory still treasured by men and in which, for many, they were intruders. Inspired by the real-life testimonies of female doctors of the time, this novel shows us their battle to overcome the prejudices of patients and colleagues, while at the same time immersing us in a plot full of emotion and mystery.