Solo, desnudo, esperas

«Seres de arena y escoria» nos muestra un mundo en el que avance tecnológico ha permeado todos los aspectos de la vida: las enfermedades se han erradicado y los seres humanos han alcanzado su extremo evolutivo, pero ¿cuándo queda algo de humano? Lisa, Chen y Jaak son los agentes encargados de garantizar la seguridad de las operaciones de la explotación minera de SesCo. Sus días transcurren sin muchos sobresaltos entre videojuegos de gama alta, vuelos de reconocimiento en cazadores de última generación y practicarse las modificaciones corporales que marcan tendencia. Hasta que un...

Di Atzeni, morto giovane inghiottito dal mare della sua isola, pubblichiamo il primo e l'ultimo racconto: 'Il demonio è cane bianco', una vecchia leggenda sarda, del diavolo che viene a conoscere un paesino, e 'Bellas mariposas', una nuova leggenda sarda, di due ragazzine del melting pot umano di un quartiere popolare di Cagliari che in una giornata conoscono se stesse.

Wrong will be that one to suppose that the practice of heroic virtues and spiritual life are the privilege of monks and hermits, confused is people who think that the list of men and women who have been elevated to sainthood is composed only of missionaries, martyrs, priests or any other member of the clergy. Error, the list of saints that the church has placed on the altar is full of a multitude of ordinary people, men and women who have gone through life loving and serving others from a common profession, from his workshop from your home, from your regular life of governors or parents.

Two writers, a deceased mother and her seventy-year-old son, Pancho, isolated in a palace near the sea in Galicia, are attended by an enigmatic old servant woman. The past haunts them with the unexpected visit of a man who had been Pancho’s secretary twenty years before. Soon, a child, this man’s son, moves into the palace, taking events to a tragic, ironic and surprising ending. This novel was made into a Spanish language movie: "El juego de los mensajes invisibles" (The Game of the Invisible Messages... 1991).