El puto país

Martin and Maggie, a judge and an artist, have forged a life together for thirty-seven years. They have a son who is a successful lawyer and a grandson to dote on. Life is good, comfortable, familiar. But one day Martin leaves a family lunch and drives to a suburb miles away, to a particular house in a particular street, where an accident triggers a chain of events. No one knows why he was there - not even Martin himself - and as his mind starts unravelling, it is left to Maggie to discover what in Martin's past is troubling him, and where it is going to take them. While Maggie pieces...

Era el mismo chico malo de siempre... Callie Umberto había abjurado de los hombres para siempre después de que la mejor aventura de su vida terminara con un amargo desengaño y una brusca despedida. Ocho años después, aquel amante de ensueño volvía a aparecer para pedirle que la acompañara a la boda de su hermano. El campeón de surf Archer Flett seguía siendo endiabladamente sexy, pero su fobia al compromiso era la misma de siempre. Callie tendría que estar loca para aceptar su invitación. El problema era que con Archer no podía resistirse a la tentación de hacer locuras...

Los relatos de La señora Rojo señalan lo delirante de la realidad e iluminan la realidad por medio del delirio. Sus personajes se abandonan a sus pasiones al tiempo que las cuestionan e ironizan sobre desdichas, rivales, amores, triunfos y, por encima todo, sobre sí mismos. Un guardia aeroportuario se convierte en un enloquecido teórico de la seguridad nacional. Un profesor responde a balazo limpio el activismo de sus alumnos. Un padre de familia ve su rutina arruinada por una invasión de tortugas. Un director porno descubre en su propio equipo a la estrella ideal. Un hombre que jamás...

In 1982, when he was just three years old, Samir was abandoned by his mother on the beach of El Saler. She blindfolded him and said: Don't move, I'll come right away. But she never did. No one knew why she did not return and that child ended up in a juvenile center with no other identity than his name and a handful of memories. Samir grew up among orphans and disinherited from the world, but with the determination to have a chance in life. Thirty years after his mother left him on that beach, Samir is no longer a helpless child, but a captain of the Valencia Judicial Police. However, his past ...