Pilgrís, how is it possible that you getting up in a bad mood one day leads to the running of a cheesy advert and your cat ends up disguised as a chicken?
Peka the hen dreams of being able to sing and that one day, she will wake the whole valley with her call. But no hen has ever sung. It’s something cockerels do.
Follow the line that travels across the pages of this story, open the flaps and see what objects it is hiding in its tangled web.
The novel tells the story of a young woman in contemporary Barcelona. It is narrated in the first person with a Joycean ‘a day in the life of…’ style of voice, although the novel takes place over several different days.
A saga about a family from the Poblenou neighbourhood of Barcelona living under the weight of a curse.