Young readers
SERIES: El clan de los náufragos (The clan of the shipwrecked)
In the lives of Victor, Martina, Lauren, Abril and Max, signs are pointing to doom. When destiny brings them together, they won’t blow this chance, but found the „clan of the shipwrecked“. It offers them a piece of solid ground on which they can share their doubts and wishes, grow together, overcome their nightmares and even fall in love. But nevertheless, they are no massive, indestructible sea wall. Instead, every one of them stays a single rock in the surf, independent from each other – and very different. Still, they support each other and resist the headwind …
#1: De aquí a al luna … y vuelta (From here to the moon … and back)
One Sunday afternoon, Victor has nothing better to do than, time and again, taking the Underground Number 3 in search of inspiration. In the literal sense of the word, he is an “underground poet” who finds his muses “under the ground.” Then, he exchanges glances with a girl who seems to be fallen straight out of heaven …
Martina has been sitting the whole day on the platform, trying to find the strength to take the next train. She is absolutely afraid to do so. Fortunately, Victor “saves” her by inviting her to have a cup of hot chocolate at the next station. At their table, there are two female students supposed to jointly write a thesis although they are totally different: Lauren is annoyed with the whole world, but luckily, Abril believes in the power of destiny and immediately talks to Victor and Martina.
When Max, the waiter, joins them, they find that any of them aimlessly drifts through life, even if each in his or her own way. They are shipwrecked, but from this moment on, they have something to hold on to: each other.
A novel about friendship, impossible dreams and love: the perfect book to read during a sunny afternoon, sitting in the shade of a tree and enjoying the first breezes of spring.
Spain: Montena, February 2014 (320 pp.)
#2: Por una sonrisa un beso (A kiss for a smile)
Víctor, Martina, Lauren, Abril and Max are closer than ever… Especially Martina and Max. Finally they are dating! But her parents do not let her have her own life. Martina will have to fight for her dreams, but, will they be the same as Max’s?
April is in a tough spot: she has to face alone the reappearance of her mother. She and Víctor are in love, but as one lives in Boston and the other in Barcelona, distance might prove to have more power than love…
And Lauren is on the brink of success: she has been casted for a TV series that might catapult her to stardom… or absolute failure!
Whatever happens, whoever they face, nothing can separate them… or can’t it? At their return from vacations, the Castaway’s Clan gathers again at their isle in the Barcelona Eixample district. Only two months have passed, but everything has changed.
Víctor, the gang’s underground poet, is living his American dream with a scholarship to attend a poetry campus. He is in a complicated long-distance relationship with Abril, who is having one of the hardest times in her life: after a decade without news from her mother, she has made contact… Martina, on her side, is fighting a double war against her parents, who oppose that someone of her social status pursues a degree in Art and, moreover, have forbidden her to see Max. Meanwhile, he is saving money secretly to leave his foster home and move in with her when he is eighteen.
Lauren, the toughest – and luckiest – girl in the Clan, has got a supporting role as an actress in a TV series and now has to struggle with fame every time she steps into the street.
Spain: Montena, October 2014 (288 pp.)
» Text in: German
