La novela explora la constante confrontación entre la verdad y la ilusión. A lo largo de la historia, la obsesión por descubrir la verdad lleva a Nerón a un viaje incesante donde la realidad y la fantasía se entrelazan. ¿Hasta qué punto las personas pueden engañarse a sí mismas para no enfrentar verdades dolorosas? Este dilema atormenta a Nerón, quien se ve atrapado entre lo que percibe, lo que desea creer y lo que realmente es.
XQ, como secuela de La chica que se creía de otro planeta, expande el misterio y la tensión que rodearon el encuentro entre Nerón y XQ. Lo que comenzó como una noche extraña en las vías del tren ahora se convierte en una espiral de incertidumbre, donde la línea entre lo real y lo imaginado se difumina cada vez más. Mientras Nerón intenta desentrañar la verdad sobre XQ, se enfrenta a sus propias obsesiones, miedos y recuerdos alterados.
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A fantastic tale and other stories
Author: Roger Otero Lorent
Genre: Children's tales
Pages: 92
Size: 14 x 20 cm
Age: Recommended for all audiences
Teaching Guide: Yes
Synopsis: Inside this book, you’ll find eight stories full of imagination, emotion, and lessons hidden behind moments both fantastic and familiar. You’ll meet Polly, a little porcupine who doesn’t know how to get along with others without hurting them—even though that’s what she wants the most. Then there’s Weaky and Musclor, two kids who can’t stand each other but are suddenly forced to face someone far meaner than either of them.
Mr. Foresight is an old man who seems to see the future, though what he truly understands might be even more surprising. In Harmony Woods, a well-dressed and smooth-talking fox charms everyone with promises of treasures and adventure—but not everyone is convinced his tales are true.
Arlo, a young armadillo desperate to fit in, is willing to become someone else just to make friends. Finny, a curious little fish, feels drawn to the brightest thing in the ocean, even if the elders have warned him it might not be safe. Whimzo’s imagination is so wild that he uses it to get out of trouble… until his own stories start catching up with him. And deep down in the sewers, Stashy the hoarding rat may learn that keeping too many things can come at a cost.
Eight tales to make you laugh, think, and feel. Eight little worlds where friendship, honesty, courage, and authenticity are put to the test. And in the end, it might not be just the characters who change—maybe the reader will too. Are you ready to begin?
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How not to make friends and other lessons I didn’t ask for
Author: Roger Otero Lorent
Genre: Children’s-young adult novel
Pages: 97
Size: 14 x 20 cm
Age: Recommended for all audiences
Teaching Guide: Yes
Synopsis: At first glance, Daniel is just another teenager trying to stay invisible. He keeps the world at a distance, avoids close bonds, and prefers not to get involved. But everything begins to shift when a few unexpected people slip past his armor: Noodle, the most outcast boy in school, who stubbornly insists on being his friend; Zoe, a meddlesome girl with the soul of a storyteller, who believes in a strange legend about a teenage poet who helps the broken-hearted; and Gavin, Daniel’s childhood best friend, whose story quietly anchors the heart of this novel.
The plot moves between biting humor, unfiltered tenderness, and emotional grief. Almost without meaning to, Daniel begins a process of healing—letting friendship in, learning to share his pain, and allowing compassion to seep through the cracks. The legend of “the poet” becomes a pretext to ease other people’s suffering, but it soon becomes clear that Daniel is the one who needs help the most.
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That’s How Life Was
Author: Roger Otero Lorent
Genre: Children’s-young adult novel
Pages: 102
Size: 14 x 20 cm
Age: Recommended for all audiences
Teaching Guide: Yes
Synopsis: What does it mean to grow up when the adults are just as lost?
Clodomiro has just won a robotics competition, but instead of feeling proud, all he can notice is what’s missing: someone to cheer for him, someone to pick him up. Between well-meaning lies, uncomfortable silences, and impossible excuses—like monkeys escaping from the zoo—this teenager navigates a life where no one seems to have time for him. His mother, always rushing. His father, absent and full of tall tales. His friends, a refuge that’s not always enough.
Through everyday episodes, online games, UFOs that may or may not have been real, and silences that hurt more than shouting, Clodomiro invites us to see the world with the blend of irony, tenderness, and clarity of someone beginning to understand that growing up isn’t a heroic journey, but a succession of small defeats, doubts, and discoveries.
“That’s How Life Was” is an intimate, funny, and moving novel about broken expectations, the fragility of family bonds, and the value of building friendships that ask for nothing in return.
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The Heraclitus Syndrome
Author: Roger Otero Lorent
Genre: Short stories
Pages: 110
Size: 14 x 20 cm
Age: Recommended for all audiences
Teaching Guide: Yes
Synopsis: What if time didn’t heal, but repeated? What if memory, money, fame, or love were nothing more than mirages—revealing who we really are when no one is watching?
In The Heraclitus Syndrome, Roger Otero Lorent brings together four intense, intimate, and deeply human stories that explore the limits of identity, ambition, and oblivion. A bank officer relives an uncomfortable past during a robbery that forces him to choose between justice and convenience. An invisible teenager writes his own manifesto from the margins of existence. A journey into the heart of Samaipata uncovers secrets that still breathe beneath the soil. And a worker discovers that his biggest role may cost him more than he’s willing to pay.
With sharp yet empathetic prose, these stories confront us with the possibility that true change, as Heraclitus warned, lies not only in the river—but in the one who dares to cross it.