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CAN YOU HOLD ON TO THE LIGHT WHEN THE DARKNESS OVERTAKES YOU? Nina, Natalia, Zoe, Anna and Meiko wake up that morning in their own different corners of the world thinking it's just another day. Little do they know their regular lives -or as regular as a life can be when you are born with magic powers- are about to change forever when a portal presents itself in front of them and takes them to a faraway land called Amentia, a colorful place where magic flows endlessly. But underneath the bright purple grass something dark and menacing is moving, poisoning the earth and the minds of everyone...

Archeologist Isaac Cohen has no idea that he will set in motion possible armagedon-like conditions when he discovers, in a library hidden away in a Tuareg city, a mysterious and omnious fifteenth-century manuscript written by a Jew from the Spanish city of Toledo, who had to flee from there during a horrible three-day religious uprising in 1467 known as "The Magdalena Fires."

Los quince relatos del libro nos transportan de inmediato a un universo lleno de sorpresas. A través de sus páginas viajaremos a un enigmático hotel en Barcelona, a un tugurio en San Petersburgo, a las reacciones hilarantes dentro del despacho oval, a un garaje en Tokio y hasta a los áureos mármoles del Olimpo. De la mano de sus protagonistas, personajes arrastrados por situaciones imprevisibles, nos espera un camino repleto de escenas insólitas de profunda significación. El nuevo milenio nos abraza, en sintonía con las múltiples amenazas planetarias, y seguimos a merced de los...

En estas páginas encontrará el lector sesenta y un relatos donde el humor absurdo se mezcla con fantásticos protagonistas y pintorescas historias. Felipe Santa-Cruz crea un universo en el que lo irreal toma pie en lo cotidiano.