Lejos de las apariencias

A thirteen-year-old girl wakes up in a future where human emotions are extinct and people rely on personal-assistant robots to navigate daily life. Imagine a future in which many human emotions are extinct, and “emotional masseuses” try to help people recover those lost sensations. Individuals rely on personal-assistant robots to navigate daily life. Students are taught not to think but to employ search programs. Companies protect their intellectual property by erasing the memory of their employees. And then imagine what it would feel like to be a sweet, smart thirteen-year-old girl from...

Alejandra Oliva is a young woman who had recently graduated from her university studies and who is forced to leave her hometown to face the current economic situation of her home. Upon arriving in a city not far away but unknown to her, she will be welcomed in the bosom of a home where she will be involved in a series of mysterious secrets, which curiously will be linked to her past. She will see how they influence her present and how they could affect her future, and she will have to find the strength to be able to face the adversities that she will have to face. In this journey, she will...

18 cuentos breves de excelente factura donde la idea del final idílico es cuestionada por distintos personajes, en su mayoría femeninos. Usando la alegoría y la metáfora como principales recursos narrativos, la autora nos envuelve en atmósferas nebulosas y obscuras donde las marcas del dolor y la muerte juegan con los mundos de la mente. Vivero se atreve así a desafiar a la felicidad para hacerle frente con los cantos que provienen de otras realidades.

In Real Life no es solo la historia de una joven de Barcelona que encuentra el amor por Internet a miles de kilómetros de distancia, en Nueva York, es también una oda al enorme esfuerzo para mantenerse fiel a uno mismo en la era de la tecnología. Narrado en clave poética, el destino de esta pareja, cuya relación empieza con un amor a primer like, nos ofrece un mosaico fragmentado de momentos esenciales repletos de inseguridades y neurosis urbanas, tan contemporáneas y universales. En el libro de Leticia Sala, los personajes buscan la luz en el caos de la cultura moderna y sus deseos...