Art by: Agustín Comotto

Written by: Agustín Comotto

What drives a solicitor, father of three, to abandon conventional life and attempt to transform society from its foundations? Is the sacrifice worthwhile? Agustín Comotto seeks answers in his own experience as the son of a social activist. Through Andrea, the protagonist of the story and his father's comrade-in-arms, he embarks on a tortuous journey to Argentina in the late 1960s in search of answers. But the journey is never what one expects.

  Like a Russian doll, Stein recounts the attempt to understand his own history through that of Andrea, a young activist who, in turn, cannot understand her struggle without that of an old Jewish man, Stein, who lived through his own revolution years earlier in Bolshevik Russia. This intertwining of stories offers a profound exploration of the human motivations of those who tried to change the world, and the consequences of leaving everything behind for a cause.

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Key points:

• An autobiographical story, that tries to explain a very painful historical period, with the aim to rescue the human side of those idealists  (with children, mothers, fathers, lovers) who took the responsability of the future on their backs

• A story that combines the roughnes of the historical moment with tenderness and sense of humor

Technical info:

• Original title: Stein (Piedra)

• Published in Spain by Nórdica Libros (2024)

• 204 pages - full colour - 225 x 284

Available worldwide

Territories excluded from representation: Nordic countries, Germany, The Netherlands and Korea