El oído miope

In the summer of 1936, the ship that carried the great writer Stefan Zweig to America stopped over at the port of Vigo. With the dramatic echoes of the Civil War resounding in the Galician atmosphere, the writer walked through the streets and stopped in front of the window of a small bookstore and met its owner, Ramón, a man who, like him, is aware of the value of Literature. That meeting will be the seed of a fleeting but valuable friendship.

Pierre Dupont, un francés algo particular, experto en negocios, con un pasado complicado y lleno de dificultades, pero con una personalidad avallasadora que le ha abierto todas las puertas en el mundo nocturno y lo ha convertido en el foco de atención de todas las féminas solteras o no..., pero el solo busca algo diferente en su vida, y no sabe lo cerca que está por encontrarlo... Alexa Gupalova, publicista de profesión, a sus 29 años era una mujer fría, enigmática, controladora, calculadora, maneja su empresa con mucha dureza, pero su vida es solitaria y vacía. Siempre rodeada de...

Born from a blog, and so sprinkled with references to real persons and facts, this first novel of Jorge Harmodio is a tale of smoke and mirrors about love and disaffection. Ninety-nine percent of our sentimental relationships fails. Every time we start one we believe that "this is the good one," but as time goes by (days, years), we realize that it was not so, and that we'll have a bad time (hours, years) after walking away from it. If you add to the breakup a deviated nassal septum surgery, an uncontrollable fear to rodents, and an obsession for becoming a novelist, shake it well and spill...

In a house he is restoring, builder Don Lark meets a woman squatter who turns out to be a ghost. But Sylvie Delaney does not realize she is a ghost, thinking she is alive. Lark learns she was murdered and goes searching for the killer. As he sinks his teeth into his new project, Lark's new neighborhood starts to work its charms on him. He strikes up a romance with the real estate agent who sold him the house. His neighbors, two charming, chatty old ladies, ply him endlessly with delicious Southern cooking. Even Sylvie, the squatter Lark was once desperate to evict from the old house, is now...