Nearly twenty years on, the students of Liceo de la Guardia de Blyd are busy using their magic to protect a society that has been living in peace for years.
The symbiosis between the author and his main character reaches the point where events and not a few roles are reversed. The first three people in this singular tale switch back and forth like the viewpoint of a swimmer.
In these eleven, extraordinarily unique stories, the author offers us human experiences of unusual intensity. The last time an exile sees the the city he grew up in.
'This is the story of Victoria the cow: the cow died and that was the end of the story.' That's how the popular story goes, and it's only slightly longer than the story of the dinosaur from Monterroso.
The night is huge and structureless. But it is punctuated by our hearts. It's mid-afternoon, the weather is good, father rolls up his shirt sleeves. A dog barks outside, the elm trees rustle, the tap in the bathroom drips.
What would you do if you discovered that you have superpowers and your best friends also have strange talents and your greatest enemy is the Devil?
A semi-autobiographical novel, stirred by the stigma of an amour fou for an older, alcoholic man, The Prodigy Girls is also a comedy in several acts, and a tale with hints of gothic horror.
There are as many stories as there are words and voices inside people. There are as many poems as there are sounds and colours in nature. So what happens when a poem gets inside a story? Suddenly, a legend appears.
Toni feels that he is a writer who never writes and a teacher who never teaches.
The purest of oral African traditions, known as Nisintory, evoking the collective action of telling and listening to stories, displays all its magic and luminosity in Fumilayo Johnson's stories.