This is the story of Olga, a retired mathematician, and Mateo, a college student passionate about robotics, and their plot to influence Google. "This is a beautifully written, endlessly provocative meditation on humanity's relationship to technology, monopoly, memory and fate."-- strong Dave Eggers, author of The Circle and The Every strong After a chance encounter at the public library, two new friends begin to meet up regularly. Together they decide to submit an application for Google sponsorship to an elite technology-training program. Hoping to stand out, they frame their submission as a direct appeal to the "conscience" of the seemingly all-powerful c ..

Porque sería posible vivir de otra manera. br br Una novela luminosa sobre la lealtad y la convivencia. En el portal 26 de la Calle Martín Vargas de Madrid, Lena, Hugo, Ramiro, Camelia y Jara han logrado convertir el piso que comparten en un espacio de vida en común. A sus cuarenta años viven juntos por necesidad y porque forma parte de su manera de entender la convivencia y las relaciones personales. Pero la situación y el carácter de Jara son más inestables: hace tiempo que no tiene trabajo y siempre vive en vilo. Por eso se ha ido sin avisar y sin dejar nota de su paradero? Existiríamos el mar es un soplo de energía que nos lleva a los caminos donde se ..

Sergio Prim is a staid, middle-aged geographer. The romantic advances of Brezo Varela, a lively young woman who shares his profession, induce a series of terrifying hallucinations from which he attempts to seek refuge by immersing himself in the quest to map a place in which love never results in disillusionment. A lyrical examination of language, imagination and desire. strong Bel n Gopegui strong burst onto the Spanish literary scene in 1993, bowling over critics with her masterful debut La escala de los mapas (The Scale of Maps ), which was hailed as a masterpiece. This is her first work translated into English. ..