La infancia del mundo

The protagonist of this story does not understand the meaning of the words "winter", "cold" or "snow" because he has never experienced the phenomena they describe. We are in Victorica, Argentine province of La Pampa, on dates after 2197, the year in which the last Antarctic ice melted and an unprecedented climatic catastrophe occurred, radically transforming the landscape of the region into a Pampean Caribbean. In this context, the dengue child grows up, the protagonist, carrier of this virus; a humanoid mosquito whose monstrous appearance not only makes him cannon fodder for his classmates - led by a tyrant named El Dulce - but also draws contempt from his own mother. Another of the surprising effects of the thaw is the appearance of some powerful telepathic pebbles from the bowels of the earth that seem to recover the wisdom of the world's childhood, with which Dulce and his brother smuggle. But this "filthy world", according to the words of Aurora Venturini at the beginning of the novel, is threatened by a socio-environmental crisis that becomes a source of financial speculation, while a planetary engineering multinational promises to adapt the geographies of Antarctica. Argentina, Mars, Jupiter and their satellites to the demands of international tourism. If capitalism has destroyed nature, can it reuse its own methods to rebuild it? Perhaps the virtual reality that is offered to the characters in the video game Cristianos vs. Indians is more livable than their own lives?