HEX (historias extraordinarias)

Beyond figures, dates and big names, there is the other story. The story of human beings as they are, capable of supernatural feats, loaded with very common weaknesses. The story of seemingly irrelevant events, but which describe, as much or more than the milestones of official history, the splendor and misery of human life. The most powerful man in history spent his life suffering because he was bald. The one who became the most famous actress in Hollywood just wanted to dance to fight the Nazis. Two military leaders from two enemy countries on the shores of an African lake pretended to go to war (while the rest of the world was killing each other) so they could continue drinking together. A wretch invented modern terrorism to defraud an insurance company. Two fighter pilots soaring in the sky were embracing each other on the ground. A poet with green teeth and fetid breath decided to take over a city, thus inspiring the first fascism. Two dentists decided to invade France, during World War II... because they were bored. These, and many other stories that go unnoticed camouflaged in absurd everyday life, are what Daniel López Valle tells us. Building, from his amazing erudition, a story full of emotion and tenderness. The best tribute to these hidden heroes, to these forgotten feats.