A BADLY DRAWN SUN

A shocking and dark literary novel that turns Barcelona into a metaphor for a society that has already decided not to look.

Sigfrid and Monday, young and idealistic, want to make a documentary about the government’s management of a serious physical and psychological disorder that has been affecting a large part of the children population for years and that has dramatic consequences at all levels. They cannot conceive of how normal life can be lived considering this terrible reality and the measures –also terrible– that keep the gears of society
running. But they will encounter an institutional –and moral–machinery much darker than they expected. Accompanied by Torca and Anna, two members of a team that searches for runaway children underground, they will descend into
the tunnels and sewers of Barcelona to face the horror that everyone wants to forget.
With a perfectly constructed dystopian universe, echoing Ballard, Ishiguro and Le Guin, A Single Badly Drawn is a dark and lyrical novel, a striking and  nusual story in our literature, with high emotional and critical tension, which directly challenges contemporary apathy in the face of catastrophe.

«Everything that drags us to a truth that hurts is uncomfortable. Vintró knows how to write this discomfort and, moreover, make it addictive: we want to look but we don’t dare to look, we need to know but we refuse to know. I read A Single Badly Drawn with the ghost of Ursula K. Le Guin at the side. Vintró, in a way, dialogues with Le Guin and asks us what we are willing to hide in the darkest and most recondite places to preserve the fiction that everything is fine.»
Roser Cabré-Verdiell