Cover and seven internal illustrations inspired to the bizzarre stories written by Xavier Sardà, published in Spanish language the book is titled "INTERCAMBIO DE VIDAS" published by Espasa - Grupo Planeta.
"A municipal plenary session in which the residents decide how the weather is going to be next year; a tasting menu that costs 1,100 euros per person and has a deadly surprise reserved for diners; the strange case of a select group of people who want to contract the coronavirus directly from someone close and chosen by them; a Dutch agency who promotes the exchange of lives.
"A municipal plenary session in which the residents decide how the weather is going to be next year; a tasting menu that costs 1,100 euros per person and has a deadly surprise reserved for diners; the strange case of a select group of people who want to contract the coronavirus directly from someone close and chosen by them; a Dutch agency who promotes the exchange of lives.
These are some examples of the 21 stories in the new book by Sardà, where humor, the absurd and the bizarre run through each one of its pages."
Art direction: Jorge Cano Gimeno and Lola Cruz Arroyo
Art direction: Jorge Cano Gimeno and Lola Cruz Arroyo
Illustrations: Andrea De Santis
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The tasting menu
In the Sebastopol-Lorraine restaurant, with twelve Michelín stars and a powerful and rich clientele, the chef is going to cook an exclusive, extreme menu with the oldest poisons: cicute, stricnine, cyanide....which are not lethal if ingested with certain foods. Whoever eats the whole menu will live, whoever stops eating will die.
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Obesity War
The American government is asking the population to feed on water and air lonely, soon an obesity pandemic is extended around the world. The alarm status is decreed, nobody can go out except for buying light food or going to the gym. The fat ones are hiding, but soon the president starts gaining weight. It's revenge.
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Dreams of poverty
Segundo Balboa suffers from dreamy out of control, has irrational and impossible dreams such as talking horses or soft buildings. The world is divided between those who dream rational and irrational, but only the poor people have strange dreams, because the riches can afford the costly dream transplant operation.
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Meteorology a-la-carte
Humans can choose how the weather is going to be. Once upon a time, Wind Rose showed how much the wind was going to blow, but now it is difficult to decide if it will be wind at all. If clouds were created with silver chloride glasses to cause rain, now you can decide when it will be raining. From the Homo Sapiens we have become Homo Gaseous.
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Rational Confessionals
Rational confessions have been imposed and it is the university dean who confess their students, convincing them to think rationally and not as social media says.
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A Clean Break
In 1921 a magician first simulated sawing a woman. Many years later, a couple of magicians, Devora and Ivan, can barely survive with their spectacle and their twins. They get along very badly and keep insulting each other, but when they incorporate those insults into the show itself, their performance between dada and absurdity will be a success. Paradoxically, they'll stop arguing in private.
