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“Emptiness is the fullness of possibilities. Your great opportunity”, said the magician. A girl who decided not to begin to talk; a famous architect that, alter a strange kidnapping, lost everything he had and found what he would have never imagined; a lonely doctor that thought he had knocked down a white cat and discovered in a park the simple value of truth; or a woman who escape from sadness and woke up an autumn afternoon in a forest, embracing a hurt bear who teach her how to cry.

This is a journey to those who have decided to know. Here you have “El cuaderno del mago” (“The Magician's Notebook”). His magic arrives to you linked with the lives of men and women you may already know o you are just to know. This is the train of life, the questions and answers that the magician has decided to tell in order to cure. In order to help. Here there is his secret. Those who know him say that happiness waits somewhere in the notebook. You only need to know how to see it. And make it yours. The adventure begins. Publisher in Spanish by and in Catalan by Columna.

Do you have ever asked yourself against what you are? Maybe against eccentric people, against corrupt politicians – or against the not corrupted -, against human justice – or injustice -, against the mass tourism, against superstitions, against local traditions, against tiny flats, hypocrite friendship, against those who gives sermons…? Or maybe against those who are against everything?

“Estem en contra” (We are against) is a satirical vision of the modern life. Xavier Gual, through eager characters and unexpected situations, shows the world as a kind of foolish remark game. But about very human foolish remark. Written with a penetrating style, “Estem en contra”, goes beyond humor. Why we should be against this and not against that?

A person holding a high position in the council of a city on the coast dies apparently from a heart attack the very same day that he was about to announce his resignation in a press conference. In the middle of the gossiping and expectation among those present, a journalist, Anabel Rodriguez, witness a conversation between the Mayor and one man of his confidence, that seems very suspicious. Since then, Annabel Rodriguez follows the clue that will lead her to investigate what seems an intricate net of property corruption.

Víctor Brons, a professor of public secondary school, is depressed. His wife left him a year ago and now the holidays start, a period of two months in which time seems to stretch like both his hobbies and obsessions.

The failure and inability to find anything to hold on to (the family or friends do not console him) take him to remember the other summers that have decisively marked his life while he plans a revenge of unforeseeable consequences.

The lack of sense of the educational system, the uniformity of urban spaces and the non-existent relationship between merit and public awareness are part of the liquid world in which Víctor Brotons sinks, a fluid world in which it is difficult to find a balance.

These are troubled times for the Inca Empire. The emperor Yupanqui Pachacutec has started a territorial expansion to avoid the fulfilment of the prophecy that predicts the near extinction of his people. This bloody process will involve fights against successors, unexpected betrayals and the raising of heroes and martyrs. But above all, it will require the effort of the people, which will be forced to work united in the construction of the sacred city, from which the Son of Inti will rule the fate of his entire domain.

Meanwhile, in a small village of the empire, a priest has read in the stars that Nemrac, a young woman with emerald eyes, is called to be the Daughter of the Sun. Overwhelmed by such honour, the girl’s parents, Nuba and Airún, will undertake a way with no return towards the Temple of Inticancha, where their daughter will have to accomplish her destiny. Through the tough journey, Nuba will lose his daughter and wife, will find out that reality can be terrible and at the same time he will gather enough courage to face fatality and to reunite again with Airún and Nemrac. This adventure will demand not only all his force, rigour and wit, but also a great spiritual growth to accept and understand the elusive meaning of life.

La virgen del sol is an exciting novel that transports the reader to the lands of the Inca Empire while disclosing the spirituality of this millennial culture.