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An energy crisis in a world of robots.

As you will know, in our previous venture we helped Kylie Robot get her voice back. But now things have changed, and it is I who needs to ask for help because… RJOJO’s gone out and won’t turn on! We are experiencing an energy crisis and robots must make breaks during which they are completely disconnected. But, in one of these breaks, R.JO has gone away. Can you wake up again? We’ll see if Lady Borg’s help is enough to get out of it.

Robots, adventures, a lot of humor… and incipient love.

Dare to live an exciting adventure!

A mysterious and unpleasant-looking man shows up one day at Canica’s house with a face of few friends. He claims to be from the electric company and asks for the key to the town house, because he needs to get in. Apparently there is an overload of energy, but something doesn’t add up for Canica: how can there be excessive electricity consumption in the village house if it has been uninhabited for years?

Moved by restlessness and curiosity, the boy decides to investigate, and gets on a train bound for Castañuela de Arriba without knowing the number of surprises he will find and the dangers he will have to face.

¡Atrévete a vivir una emocionante aventura!

Un misterioso señor de aspecto desagradable se presenta un buen día en casa de Canica con cara de pocos amigos. Dice ser de la compañía eléctrica y pide la llave de la casa del pueblo, porque necesita entrar. Al parecer hay una sobrecarga de energía, pero a Canica hay algo que no le cuadra: ¿Cómo puede haber un gasto excesivo de luz en la casa del pueblo si hace años que está deshabitada?

Movido por la inquietud y la curiosidad, el chico decide investigar, y se sube a un tren rumbo a Castañuela de Arriba sin saber la cantidad de sorpresas con las que se encontrará ni los peligros a los que habrá de enfrentarse.

Para Nora, una niña de doce años, ir los domingos al lago, un lugar muy hermoso y tranquilo de colores cambiantes, es una experiencia deliciosa. Excepto Quim, que tiene siete años, todos en el grupo que la acompaña son adultos. Cada uno de ellos alberga en su interior sus propios anhelos, y ella los observa y no siempre cree entenderlos, pero la última mañana en el lago, a raíz de un conflicto entre los mayores y de la osadía de Quim, Nora despertará repentinamente del sueño de la infancia.

La nueva obra de Maria Barbal después del reconocimiento internacional a Tándem es una novela de gran intensidad emocional sobre la nostalgia, la belleza, el paso del tiempo y el significado de la felicidad.

Maria Barbal’s new novel after the international recognition of Tándem.

“Remembering that summer is like looking back at paradise before passing through a door that will leave it behind forever.”

For Nora, a twelve-year-old girl, going on Sundays to the lake, a very beautiful and quiet place of changing colors, is a delightful experience. Except for Quim, who is seven, everyone in the group accompanying her is an adult. Each of them harbors their own longings, and she observes them and does not always think she understands them, but on the last morning at the lake, as a result of a conflict between the elders and Quim’s daring, Nora will suddenly awaken from the dream of childhood.

Maria Barbal’s new work after the international recognition of Tándem is a novel of great emotional intensity about longing, beauty, the passing of time and the meaning of happiness.