Gernika, 26 April 1937. Following Franco's orders, the Condor Legion and Italian air force units bombed the Biscayan town until it was reduced to ashes.
The book consists of twenty-eight chapters which describe, through simple text and colour illustrations, the daily life of a people around the year 1200, the year in which most of the Romanesque churches of Europe's rural areas were being built.
El Mudo (the Mute) lives on the outskirts of a strange town in northern Argentina, with his dog India. Years ago he arrived from the city and moved into a mysterious house in the mountains, next to the river Tragadero.
'Una familia ejemplar' is a hilarious satire, a tragicomedy that takes a look at the disproportionate ambition that sometimes makes reasonable people lose their heads, and also a searing critique of great family sagas.
The Tower is the largest building in the village, an inhuman block inhabited by as many people as live in the rows of houses that have just been built on the outskirts.
Is it possible for a man secretly to hire sex professionals so as to revive his desire for his wife? Is it not paradoxical for a husband to go to a third party to reestablish his sexual life with his partner? Is jealousy love or wounded vanity?