Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency

People from the small village hated Ms. Bubble from the very moment she arrived. The inventor appeared one sunny morning, driving a convertible that ran on steam, and settled in a house that had been empty for years. They rejected her for her work, her inventions, for her way of living. No one suspected what really went on inside the Ms. Bubble’s mansion.... - Read more

  An endearing story set in Barcelona in the years of the Transition, at the height of the "permissive" period, in which family secrets, the search for identity, religious sects and characters with a murky past intermingle to create the unforgettable portrait of an entire era. In the Barcelona of 1976, Alfredo Burman and his boss, Mr. Moncada, are sacked from their jobs after the publishing house at which they work goes belly up. It is... - Read more

  A house by the sea is for sale. Potential buyers visit it; some praise it, whilst others reject it. However, we are not listening to them, or to the real estate agent, for that matter.Who feels, is moved, reflects, and confesses before us, is the house itself, which from its walls, its floor and its ceiling, the skin and heartbeat of everything that occurs is transmitted.With an ironic and acid prose, that simultaneously caresses and... - Read more

Judge Lola MacHor and her husband James, a medical researcher at the CSIC, have been together for more than 30 years. One evening, James invites two Friends over for dinner, J.J., an American doctor, and Rafael Scott, adviser to a Texan senator of Argentinian origin. Both have worked hard so that this year’s prestigious Wolf Award for Medical Research goes to James. During dinner, in which Lola wears a bracelet that belonged to her... - Read more

A gynaecologist combines his scrupulous job with frequent visits to a whorehouse. A boy with a ‘bit too big’ head tells the gynaecologist about an old lady who wears a crown while waiting for his mother in the waiting room. There’s neither space nor time, but only past events told in a distant present which articulates the memories of relationships between people and the hollowness of those: the relationship of the... - Read more