Sanatoria was the place where children who did not fit into the other institutions of the city were confined; bizarre children, awkward, maddening, with nothing in common among them other than being pieces of lost puzzles, last specimens of extinct races: weird children.
Editorial Rapitbook 2016, Editorial Baía 2015 (Galician)
A confused child, Jacinto, arrives at a strange village located on the top of a mountain range, Míseres. The place had been abandoned for almost a century except for a little man who still lives there. Zeferdino -that is how the little man calls himself- explains to the boy that Míseres was built on top of the mountains because the settlers hoped that they would not suffer the consequences of a terrible plague that killed thousands across the country. But since there was so little space up there, they could not waste it in streets or squares, so all the houses were built one behind the other. In Míseres nobody can have secrets ...
Editorial De Ponent 2016, Editorial Mosquito 2019 (French)
When the inhabitants of the slums found Teo floating in the river, the first thing that crossed their minds was to sell him to the city's antique dealers. Teo was - and surely still is - a bicentennial automaton, made of gold, silver and ivory. However and despite the fact that a single finger of the automaton could have lift them all out of misery, they soon abandoned this idea, since Teo could actually talk, eat, scratch, run, feel curiousity and ultimately do all those things that a ten year old child does.
Editorial Dolmen 2018 (Spanish & Catalonian)
Sanatoria was the place where children who did not fit into the other institutions of the city were confined; bizarre children, awkward, maddening, with nothing in common among them other than being pieces of lost puzzles, last specimens of extinct races: weird children.
Editorial Rapitbook 2016, Editorial Baía 2015 (Galician)
A confused child, Jacinto, arrives at a strange village located on the top of a mountain range, Míseres. The place had been abandoned for almost a century except for a little man who still lives there. Zeferdino -that is how the little man calls himself- explains to the boy that Míseres was built on top of the mountains because the settlers hoped that they would not suffer the consequences of a terrible plague that killed thousands across the country. But since there was so little space up there, they could not waste it in streets or squares, so all the houses were built one behind the other. In Míseres nobody can have secrets ...
Editorial De Ponent 2016, Editorial Mosquito 2019 (French)
When the inhabitants of the slums found Teo floating in the river, the first thing that crossed their minds was to sell him to the city's antique dealers. Teo was - and surely still is - a bicentennial automaton, made of gold, silver and ivory. However and despite the fact that a single finger of the automaton could have lift them all out of misery, they soon abandoned this idea, since Teo could actually talk, eat, scratch, run, feel curiousity and ultimately do all those things that a ten year old child does.
Editorial Dolmen 2018 (Spanish & Catalonian)
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