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El sábado 23 de mayo de 1981, justo al cumplirse 90 días del Golpe de Estado del Teniente Coronel Tejero, un grupo de encapuchados entró en el Banco Central de Barcelona, y retuvo a 300 rehenes en su interior. Fueron 37 horas de tensión que concluyeron con la entrada de los GEO el domingo por la tarde y la detención de los secuestradores.El episodio dio para portadas de periódico e incluso una comparecencia del Presidente del Gobierno ante el Congreso. Pero nada más. No pasó a la historia, voluntaria o involuntariamente. Ahora, 30 años después, el Teniente Coronel Tejero encarga a...

Troya, Troyita, Troya... el niño aprensivo y débil que protagoniza esta novela ha acabado en un reformatorio tras una experiencia familiar traumática. Acosado por unos y por otros, tendrá como única obsesión escapar del ambiente purulento que se respira en el colegio y para ello sólo parece contar con la complicidad de su compañero de cuarto, Majarón, un chico obsesionado por el sexo y los nudos marineros. Novela breve, pero de una creciente e inusual intensidad dramática que nos muestra a unos indefensos seres atrapados en un espacio donde impera el abuso y la impunidad de la...

Waugh begins his autobiographical story with his inheritance, writing of the energetic, literary, and sometimes eccentric men and women who contributed to his genius. His childhood was for the most part warm, bright and serene, but he remembers the Hampstead and Lancing schooldays which followed as somewhat painful. His life at Oxford was essentially a catalogue of friendship, an exclusive world he recalls with elegant wit and precision. Finally, he closes with his experiences as a master at a preparatory school in North Wales which inspired his work Decline and Fall. Waugh comienza su relato ...