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A choral narrative in which the anonymous members of an olive-growing clan from the Jándula cross their destinies with those of Alberti, Lorca, and Unamuno; Rodoreda, Zambrano, and Kent; Hemingway, Orwell, and Bernanos; Picasso and Maruja Mallo; Azaña and Foxá. A novel where the epic and the everyday intertwine to weave an overflowing, poetic, and grotesque tapestry, beautiful and delirious.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Siruela","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56603064992088,"sku":"LIB-LA-SI-457","price":26.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/71k7QrjM7FL._SL1200.jpg?v=1769458861"},{"product_id":"emilio-y-octubre-david-ucles","title":"Emilio y Octubre","description":"\u003cp\u003eEmilio and Octubre were destined to meet. Their first kiss was under the skirts of a menina from the Prado. Despite their love, will they manage to be together?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmilio remembers how he glimpsed through the translucent skin of his mother's belly the Murillo replica hanging in the Madrid hospital where he was born. He wonders, from inside a Magritte canvas, why at the end of the red thread tied to his pinky finger after birth he then read the name of a month.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctubre does not know where her name comes from. She remembers that first love she kissed under the skirts of a menina from the Prado. She wonders where he is now, while diving under the waters of Patinir's Styx lagoon. Until the two can come to love each other, they will plan shadows of faded birds, tears of tempera will arise from sewn eyes, Europe will dry up, swallow a dying man, and someone will run across a continent without stopping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the love story of Emilio and Octubre, told from the birth of one to the death of the other, in a near future where we will enter the three-dimensionalized paintings of museums and travel across the entire European continent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dos Bigotes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56733999235416,"sku":"LIB-EM-DO-516","price":19.85,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/9788412109177.jpg?v=1771290093"},{"product_id":"la-ciudad-de-las-luces-muertas-david-ucles","title":"La ciudad de las luces muertas","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"176\" data-end=\"449\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLa ciudad de las luces muertas\u003c\/em\u003e is the new novel by David Uclés, winner of the \u003cstrong data-start=\"263\" data-end=\"284\"\u003ePremio Nadal 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e, and confirms the literary imagination of one of the most unique narrators in recent Spanish literature, also the author of \u003cem data-start=\"414\" data-end=\"448\"\u003eLa península de las casas vacías\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"451\" data-end=\"770\"\u003eThe story begins in postwar Barcelona, when a young woman accidentally causes an extraordinary phenomenon that plunges the city into total darkness. 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