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Nearly twenty years on, the students of Liceo de la Guardia de Blyd are busy using their magic to protect a society that has been living in peace for years. But when the shadow of Dominio returns to threaten the country, a group of students will have to confront secrets from the past . . . without revealing their own.

In these eleven, extraordinarily unique stories, the author offers us human experiences of unusual intensity. The last time an exile sees the the city he grew up in. The last time we see the person who was perhaps destined to share our lives, but who, by some cosmic error, will not.

The night is huge and structureless. But it is punctuated by our hearts. It's mid-afternoon, the weather is good, father rolls up his shirt sleeves. A dog barks outside, the elm trees rustle, the tap in the bathroom drips. I can hear banging as my brother mucks around in the workshop in the garden. Mama is downstairs running the shop, or rather waiting for the first customer of the afternoon.

A semi-autobiographical novel, stirred by the stigma of an amour fou for an older, alcoholic man, The Prodigy Girls is also a comedy in several acts, and a tale with hints of gothic horror. But above all, it is a contemporary story about identity that begins in an imperfect present and passes back through all the ages of a woman.