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Cuando las tormentas

Iyana Delvado

Synopsis

Somewhere in the valley, a chorus of birds meets. The hoopoe, the bullfinch, the wagtail, the bunting and the hobby tell five tales in which storms are the only common factor. In each tale, storms affect the natural course of the valley: in several cases by triggering events; in others as their witness; and finally, in some, as the premonitory scene for future outcomes. Apart from the birds, hedgehogs, flowers, caterpillars, trees and humans also populate the tales, in which hunger and random chance are the causes of death, to which the valley is as indifferent as it is to the storms.

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The book

A new format for a classic of the publishing world: an illustrated bird book. The usual features of such books — the quality of the colours and the species reproduced in great detail — are maintained in the twenty-four illustrations in "Cuando las tormentas", which offer readers a true picture of the birds described in the text.

However, this edition of "Cuando las tormentas" complements conventional editions with a horizontal format more appropriate for showing birds, as opposed to the more classical vertical pages. Thanks to the horizontal layout and the suggestive graphic work of illustrator Víctor Ruiz Almenta, the plates in "Cuando las tormentas" have room for wide open countryside where the birds appear among the branches and rocks, crops and meadows, and in the sky, with no special preference or attention, as elements inseparable from the environment, in a symbolic expression of the bond that life establishes between animals and places.

The layout in individual sections, a solution that is customary in Lavandera Blanca* Editores, allows the pages to be laid flat, making it easier for readers to consult the text. The unique tin "clasps", hand cut and finished, that hold the pages of each section together were designed expressly for this edition. "Cuando las tormentas" comes in an elegant felt folder, optionally grey or red, and a serigraphed dust cover.

The author

Cuando las tormentas. The author
Iyana Delvado

Oviedo (1962); died in Peru (1996) in the Arequipa plane crash. She had a degree in Exact Sciences, with majors in Operational Research and Statitistics. Delvado taught in several institutes in the province before becoming a member of the Earth Sciences Department at Oviedo University. During that period she applied her math studies to the field of Tectonics, which made her travel to many countries: Chile, Morocco, Switzerland, Afghanistan and Nepal. Dedicated to scientific practice, Iyana Delvado nevertheless developed her literary vocation at the same time, which emerged for the first time in "Sobre la escarcha" (1989), a collection of short stories. Whereas "Cartorrimas" (1990) portrays the emotion that attentive travellers feel for certain places, in "Querido Julio Verne" (1991) the characters are trapped by the same personal obsession that prevents them from finishing their journey. "Cuando las tormentas" (1994) confirms the trend Iyana Delvado showed in her preceding works: to extract a fictional argument from nature, while the author's imagination rests on layers or strata deposited between descriptions that are almost scientific in their realism.

The illustrations

Cuando las tormentas. Las láminas
Victor Ruiz Almenta

Madrid (1972). A professional illustrator since 1997. After making illustrations for the advertising market and working for several agencies, Ruiz Almenta focused his work on depicting landscapes and the countryside, becoming one of the best illustrators in that field. His best known works include "Insectos en el mar" (2001); "Volando, corriendo, nadando" (2003); "Fabulario" (2004), and the series "Paisajes de anatomía" (2006), awarded second prize at the 22nd Premio Internazionale Italo Svevo in Trieste, in the category of stories for adults.

The design

Cuando las tormentas. The design
Takashi Okada

Takashi Okada's work (Hokkaido, 1964) is a benchmark for the packaging industry in Japan. Okada is an expert in combining the surfaces and materials he uses to achieve a level of expression shown in his "boxes for visual communication" and rarely found in industrially produced pieces. Since 1990, he works in his own studio for companies such as Hitachi, Isuzu Motors and IBM. The Japan Package Design Association has awarded him several prizes and his designs have been shown in Tokyo's annual Wood Package Exhibition.


Technical specifications

Body of the book
  • The book comprises five individual notebooks sewn by hand with 1 mm brass thread. Text pages of common white, ultrasmooth SendMe paper, 120 g, printed with one ink. Illustrations on common white, ultrasmooth SendMe paper, 160 g, images by four-colour printing.
Felt case
  • On woollen felt, optionally grey or red, with brass book corners and ribbing. Dust cover in common white, misty DiscoverMe paper, 100 g, printed on one side with black screen-printing ink. Presented in cardboard of 3mm, serigraphed with one black ink. Inside lined with red or black ColorMe paper.

ISBN for hardcopy edition: 978-84-612-6275-5

Spanish edition


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