Julio Millares

The bomb child Julio Millares

The story "The bomb child" deals with a painful and delicate subject, the presence of Islamic terrorism in our Western societies. The protagonist saves a child condemned by his own father to self-immolation and after a series of vicissitudes everything ends in a happy ending. A fun and up-to-date book on a subject that has been taboo until now. Julio Millares won the Vargas Llosa Prize for novels and the Imaginaria Prize for children's stories. He lived in Brazil, Italy, France, Mexico and Sweden before returning to his native Argentina. He is a professor at the Faculty of Arts of the National University of Cuyo.