“Donde cantan las ballenas”, by Sara Jaramillo Klinkert
Candelaria is 12 years old and lives with her eccentric family in Parruca, a mythical place lost in the mountains. Her mother talks to rocks, her stepbrother grows magic mushrooms and her father, an artist who sculpts whales, has abandoned them. While the vegetation devours the house, the three of them are visited by strange characters: a woman who is an expert in poisonous plants and is responsible for more than one death, a man who fears lightning, and a homeless man who pursues his own death and leaves behind an enigmatic manuscript…
Free for Instituto Cervantes London library members. Please note you must book via the session’s Eventbrite page:
• Library members: free
• Non-members: £5
• When booking, please select whether you will attend face to face or online.
• Library members: free
• Non-members: £5
• When booking, please select whether you will attend face to face or online.
