La infancia del mundo

The protagonist of this story does not understand the meaning of the words "winter", "cold" or "snow" because he has never experienced the phenomena they describe. We are in Victorica, Argentine province of La Pampa, on dates after 2197, the year in which the last Antarctic ice melted and an unprecedented climatic catastrophe occurred, radically transforming the landscape of the region into a Pampean Caribbean. In this context, the dengue child grows up, the protagonist, carrier of this virus; a humanoid mosquito whose monstrous appearance not only makes him cannon fodder for his classmates – commanded by a tyrant called El Dulce – but also provokes the contempt of his own mother.