David Trueba

Based on the novel by Javier Cercas.

Con el objetivo de enterrar a su padre en el pueblo donde nació, Daniel emprende un viaje en un vehículo muy particular, un coche fúnebre, conducido por un chófer ecuatoriano, pintoresco y charlatán, de la mejor estirpe cómica. ¿Quién es de verdad Dani Mosca? Quizá, como sostiene él mismo, es sólo un tipo que hace canciones, sobre todo canciones de amor. Pero es también el niño que creció en un barrio humilde; que encontró la amistad más profunda de esa manera accidental en que uno encuentra las grandes cosas de la vida; que viajó y disfrutó de su oficio en la música hasta que la tríada clásica de los excesos (sexo, drogas y rock and roll) desintegró el grupo que había formado con sus amigos del alma; y cuya vida se sostuvo en un equilibrio precario pero resistente entre el deseo y la realidad. Ésta es una novela que a ratos se lee como una canción. Contiene la visión personal de un tiempo y unos lugares en los que Dani Mosca se construyó una identidad propia a fuerza de ideales y sueños, y también de algunos autoengaños y mentiras. Un viaje profundo e intenso, sensible y directo, donde se perciben las huellas y las cicatrices del paso del tiempo. David Trueba vuelve a desplegar, bajo una estructura poderosa y zigzagueante, hecha de hilos que se entrelazan, su prodigioso pulso narrativo para proyectar una mirada aguda y reflexiva sobre las paradojas y las perplejidades que rodean nuestra existencia y adentrarse con lucidez en el laberinto de los afectos y los sentimientos. El resultado es un libro deslumbrante en cada una de cuyas páginas palpita la vida.

It is Sylvia's sixteenth birthday, and her life as an adult is about to begin--not with the party she had been planning, but with a car accident and a broken leg. Behind the wheel is a talented young soccer player, just arrived from Buenos Aires and set for stardom on and off the field. As their destinies collide and a young romance is set in motion, across town, Sylvia's father and grandfather are finding their own lives suddenly derailed by a violent murder and a secret affair with a prostitute. Set against the maze of Madrid's congested and contested streets, Learning to Lose follows these four individuals as they swerve off course in unexpected directions. Each of them is dodging guilt and the fear of failure, but their shared search for happiness, love, purity, redemption, and, above all, a way to survive, forms a taut narrative web that binds the characters together. From one of Spain's most celebrated contemporary writers, Learning to Lose is a lucid and gripping view into the complexities of lives overturned and into the capriciousness of modern life, with its intoxicating highs and devastating lows.

A new recruit to the most powerful supernatural intelligence agency on Earth is accused of going rogue and must go on the run to clear her name. September, 1940. Three women of the Checquy, the secret organization tasked with protecting Britain from supernatural threats, stand in the sky above London and see German aircraft approach. Forbidden by law to interfere, all they can do is watch as their city is bombed. Until Pamela, the most sensible of them, breaks all the rules and brings down a Nazi bomber with her bare hands. The three resolve to tell no one about it, but they soon learn that a crew member is missing from the downed bomber. Charred corpses are discovered in nearby houses and it becomes apparent that the women have unwittingly unleashed a monster. Through a city torn by the Blitz, the friends must hunt the enemy before he kills again. Their task will take them from the tunnels of the Underground to the halls of power, where they will discover the secrets that a secret organization must keep even from itself. Today. Lynette Binns, a librarian with a husband and child, is a late recruit to the Checquy, having discovered only as an adult her ability to electrify everyday objects with her touch. After completing her training, she is assigned to examine a string of brutal murders and quickly realizes that all bear the unmistakable hallmark of her own unique power. Unable to provide an alibi and determined to prove her innocence, she flees, venturing into the London underworld to find answers. But now she is prey, being tracked by her own frighteningly capable comrades. As Lyn fights off powered thugs and her own vengeful colleagues, she will find that the solution to the murders and to the mystery of her own past lies in the events of World War II, and the covert actions of three young women during the Blitz.