The puppeteer Dingo's carriage hits a young child while passing through the village of Artemilla, the miserable village from which he fled years ago to join a troupe of acrobats, aspiring to make his entire life a continuous festival. He resorts to his old friend, Juan Medinao, to help him in this predicament, but his contact with the village master will finally awaken the details of the painful past, and with them he will begin a relentless journey through memory, recalling his relationship with his father, his mother’s suicide, and the mixture of hatred and love that he felt towards his brother. Stepbrother.
In this small-sized novel, but with a big impact, Anna Maria Matute is able to delve into the depths of her characters, searching for the deep scars that childhood leaves in their souls, revealing with keen insight and high sensitivity the most complex and profound human feelings, in a dense narrative that makes room for emotional feelings. Inferiority, fear, isolation, and hatred can tell their story too.
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The novel tells the story of the young man, Rakan, who lived in poverty with his grandmother, far from his wealthy parents. Events escalate and he discovers that he was the victim of a large conspiracy. The events of the novel take place between the UAE and Malaysia. The climax of the novel will be revealed and new characters will be revealed in Malaysia, so that the reader finds himself stuck in the middle of the novel, completely... It imagines the fate of its hero, who will go through challenges and obstacles between the pain of loss, love, excitement, and crime.
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