GRUPO PLANETA - LIGEROS LIBERTINAJES SABATICOS | POCKET EDITION

Ten ingenious stories full of imagination, desire, and humor.

Synopsis of the Light Sabbath debaucheries:

Without a doubt, Ligeros is less veiled and, above all, full of desire in the most carnal sense. Luis G. Berlanga described them as erect—or moisturizing, as the case may be—and the reader can verify this with succulent stories like "Pincho Moruno" or "Pascualino y los Globos"; you can also discover the infinite possibilities offered by gastronomy with "A Surprising Woman," or, well, perhaps you'll even confirm your usual suspicions about the relationship between Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes in "The Eroticism of Logic."

• Number of pages: 144

ON THE AUTHOR OF THE LIGHT SABBATH CRIMES

Mercedes Abad, born in Barcelona in 1961, studied Computer Science at the Autonomous University of that city. Since she first came to prominence in 1986 with Ligeros libertinajes sabáticos (La Sonrisa Vertical 47), winner of the 8th La Sonrisa Vertical Award, she has published the fairy tales Felicidades conyugales and Soplando al viento (Andanzas 107 and 233). Her first novel, Sangre (Sangre 417), was published in 2000, receiving critical and commercial acclaim.

She is also the author of numerous screenplays and radio plays and of theatrical productions such as Pretèrit Perfecte (1992), Se non è vero (1995) and Bunyols de Quaresma (1998). She adapted for the stage Dangerous Liaisons (2001) and Philosophy in the Dressing Room, by the Marquis de Sade, for the show XXX (2002) by Fura dels Baus. A regular contributor to the Catalan edition of El País, she has collected her articles in the volume Titúlate tú (2002).