Book, Miniatures, As[LS]

In a building that may or may not exist, people gather in a vast lobby, queuing for an elevator. It is the Midoro Filho Building, an imposing landmark in the city center, dozens of floors stacked together in a sober and functional architecture. As they spread through the corridors, employees and visitors occupy the bureaucratically decorated rooms of the oneiros. Each oneiro always serves the same people. They cannot know each other nor maintain any kinship. But the system is not infallible, and that morning, the oneiro realizes that the boy in front of him is the son of one of his clients. As he conducts the dream session, offering the boy the plastic miniatures that will serve as a guide during his torpor, the oneiro decides not to inform the administration about the error. As a result of this bureaucratic mistake, the oneiro will increasingly abandon his strict code of conduct to become involved in the lives of the boy and his mother, a taxi driver who survives with difficulty after her husband's disappearance. In prose of sweeping poetic strength, Andrea del Fuego will take the reader to a universe where the border between dream and reality is treated with a mix of Kafkaesque rigor and oriental minimalism. In the game of small plastic sculptures that help clients during sessions with the oneiros, the author illuminates the gaps that exist between the real and the imagined, love and dedication.