Lo que tuve a mi lado

Two literary geniuses coexist in the Barcelona of the sixties. Just a few meters separate their apartments, they see each other almost daily. They write about each other, share friendships, party nights, conversations about books and writing, and above all the brilliant start to their literary careers which, under the leadership of who would become one of the most powerful literary agents in the world, will lead them both to have millions of readers in all corners of the planet and to be awarded the Cervantes Prize and the Nobel Prize among many other recognitions. Until one day, in Mexico...

La vida de Julius Winsome, en una remota cabaña de los bosques de Maine, ha acabado pareciéndose al paisaje que lo rodea: silencioso, lejos de todo, aislado, inescrutable. Pero cuando su perro, Hobbes, muere a manos de un cazador, en un descuido o en un acto de crueldad, la vida de Julius, ya en la cincuentena, da un vuelco. Precisamente, Hobbes es lo único que le queda de un antiguo y fugaz amor. En adelante tendrá por toda compañía el rifle que heredó de su padre y éste, a su vez, de su abuelo, que luchó durante la primera guerra mundial, y los innumerables libros que cubren las...

Procedente de una humilde familia de Ispahán, Hadjí Babá alcanza una envidiable posición en el entorno del sha. Ingenuo y malévolo al mismo tiempo, a veces honesto, casi siempre enamorado, tales son los rasgos que mejor definen a este maravilloso personaje que ejerció de aguador, verdugo, buhonero, médico, alcahuete, hombre de religión, respetable vendedor, y confidente de un visir, antes de alcanzar el éxito profesional y social en la corte del sha de Persia.

It's been twenty years since the Hospital was closed down. Francis was barely out of his teens when his family committed him to the asylum, after his behavior ended in a terrifying outburst. Now he leads a solitary life, medicated all the time. But a reunion on the grounds of the institution stirs something in Francis's mind: memories he thought he had laid to rest about the events that led to Hospital's demise.