República luminosa

What has to happen for us to be forced to redefine our idea of childhood? The appearance of thirty-two violent children of unknown origin completely disrupts the life of San Cristóbal, a small tropical town sandwiched between the jungle and the river. Twenty years later, one of its protagonists writes this luminous Republic, a chronicle of facts, evidence and rumors about how the city was forced to reformulate not only its idea of order and violence but even civilization itself during that year and a half. in which, until his death, the children took the city. Tense and distressing, with the clarity of Conrad from The Heart of Darkness, Barba adds here, to his usual narrative audacity and his talent for ambiguous situations, the dimension of a metaphysical and dark fable that has the breath of great stories.