A countdown

The Author, born in the 40s, In a family of nine children, in 1950 he emigrated from Spain to Argentina. The family returned after a few years. After his return, he spent his childhood and adolescence in his hometown where almost all his stories take place. Autobiographical book, with short narrative stories. Childhood memories, children's games, school scenes, even intimate experiences. Its background is totally real, collected over the years. Narrating a memory, you could say more things than a past anecdote says. Stories that contain a dose of irony without conveying bitterness. Synopsis : August morning, when nine years old, Tinín and Escarola, accompanied me to see the bar of ice chop, which the waiter from the Candil bar would chop up and put in the chest, while we looked at him stunned, hoping that at the end of the task reward us with a piece. Mornings in which Grandma Dionisia fed her pigeons.