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Un saxofonista de jazz, que se gana la vida en una empresa de dudoso capital internacional, protagoniza esta novela generacional en la España de los años sesenta. Tres historias de amor, de muy distinto tono, se entrelazan con los sucesos más relevantes del final de la dictadura. Son momentos de gran agitación estudiantil, cuyas manifestaciones contra la brutalidad del franquismo se convierten en la versión española de los movimientos contestatarios que se daban en el resto de Europa y América. En suma, la preparación de la democracia, en unas circunstancias extremadamente difíciles. ...

"A man meets the mother of a school friend who was his adolescence erotic obsession; two brothers who have not spoken for years return to contact for a kidney; a Catalan lives peculiar adventures in Las Vegas; A man seeks the trace of his beloved in the streets of Barcelona... and, in the last of the stories in this book, the author himself becomes a character. "

Siete cuentos sobre temas diversos, desde el medioevo hasta el siglo veinte. Tienen ciertas relaciones entre s.

"Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of love with that of death." Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco's study of contrasts, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellín. Her very name-evoking the rosary, and scissors-bespeaks her conflict as a woman who becomes a contract killer to insulate herself from the random violence of the streets. Then she is shot, gravely wounded, and the circle of contradiction is closed. From the corridors of the hospital where Rosario is fighting for her life, Antonio,...