Galego | English

By Silvio Freytes, Flavio Morais

About this book

Many things happen at the same time in the same place, they are interrelated but people do not realise the fact that whatever they do or say may be seen or heard by others. This book addresses the issue of measuring time and space. It also presents the fact that simple events may have surprising repercussions.

The story has a circular structure and, from an aesthetic point of view, the illustrations are visual and geometrical, with some inspiration from comics. These qualities help involve the readers easily in the interlinked stories. Thus, readers can imagine that they are direct and privileged witnesses of each and every action that is being narrated and that happen simultaneously.

Book fragment

One autumn afternoon, in a neighbourhood in the south of the city, at 19 hours and 27 minutes and 32 seconds, a woman dressed in yellow watches in awe a girl who is perched on the window of the building opposite to her. At that moment…