David, le garçon innocent héros de ce roman, vit dans la banlieue d'une ville, dans un environnement défavorable auquel essaie de remédier l'école du quartier où il étudie et où coexistent des adolescents d'origines différentes, avec leur fragilit
David, the innocent young protagonist of this novel, lives on the outskirts of a city.
El que apaga la luz, title taken from one of Somerset Maugham’s sentences, is a book full of incurable patients, obsessions that culminate in the worst of nightmares (insomnia) and whose only relief is suicide.
After reading all about the poet Antonio Machado, Javier decides to visit the writer's tomb. In the hotel, he meets a strange woman and her son; a hyperactive teenager. One morning, at breakfast, the woman disappears leaving her son abandoned.
