República luminosa

What has to happen for us to be forced to redefine our idea of childhood? The appearance of thirty-two violent children of unknown origin completely disrupts the life of San Cristóbal, a small tropical city sandwiched between the jungle and the river. Twenty years later, one of its protagonists writes this Luminous Republic, a chronicle woven of facts, evidence and rumors about how the city was forced to reformulate not only its idea of order and violence but even civilization itself during that year and a half. in which, until his death, the children took over the city.