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Juan Farias (1935-2011) "A Galician, Catholic and family man. Before marrying, he wandered from a world to another, from bohemian life to middle class, from Paris to the sea, from Nieztsche to San Francisco. He is fond of reading everything that comes to his hands and, sometimes, he writes. He was a child during two wars. He learnt to read according to formal education, which is always more concerned about the reasons of Power than about the power of reason”, this is how the author described himself when he was asked for a words for a back cover.
“This is a story of many transgressions: those of the young people who break the rules and transgress the social establishment and those of who, without breaking the rules (but indeed trying to restore them), transgress the intimate small order of a group of children who do not consider themselves to be criminals. Everything narrated in this book actually happened, but I am afraid it still happening” (Juan Farias).
“A brilliant and hard novel set in the forties… a story full of humanity and compassion, which reveals the mistakes and injustices that have been made in the education of difficult, misfit children, in past times and now” (Comunidad Escolar).
“It is written with skill and following the direct, reserved and accurate style of Farias. It is an indispensable novel that is worth recovering” (CLIJ, Children and Young Adults’ Literature Notebooks).
