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Tarak is born in the middle of the 19th century, at the height of the Raj, to a poor family of textile workers. His passion and spirituality in the art of painting put him in the path of David Douglas, and adventurer and landscape photographer, who is on his way to Simla, in the north, where he hopes to set up a studio. Douglas shows Tarak the basics of photography.

What better place to discover poetry than the garden? A place where time stands still, like a satisfied lizard, only to fly off as flighty as a ladybird. The bees, the frogs, the sparrows and the snails: all have their corners and their games, their poetry.

An unusual character lives on a farm; it’s a pirate’s parrot that sings and looks after the animals…

‘Un lugar llamado Fracaso’ is an internal brainstorming exercise in the form of 23 short stories about life, literature, dreams and failure. Because life is a continuing failure to find any kind of success, a failure in which the characters in the stories that make up this collection survive while waiting for a better future, which sometimes comes and sometimes does not.