Iván spends hours looking at the sky. He says it’s like a movie: sometimes funny, sometimes sad, sometimes scary. Together with his grandmother Amparo, who breeds carrier pigeons, he lives in a polluted area forgotten by progress, where both are seen as “light-headed and bird-brained.” But in their world there is poetry, imagination, and freedom.

Adela, the daughter of César Mégalo, a pragmatic man who, amid social disorder, is gaining more and more power among the neighbors, is very different.

When devastating rain turns the city into an island, the community must decide which path to follow. The cold logic of control or the courage of empathy and imagination?

Una isla en el tiempo, a recovered and unpublished work by Liliana Bodoc, is a luminous and deeply relevant story about the power of sensitivity in times of crisis. A novel that celebrates friendship, hope, and the ability to start over.

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