Titiritess

Titiritess lives in the kingdom of The-day-before-yesterday. Her mother, Mandolin, dreams of seeing her daughter well married and tries to educate her as a refined courtesan; but her daughter rejects the conventional life that has been imposed on her and does not share her mother’s ambitions. Faced with the imminent arrival of a governess, Titiritess decides to flee the palace and to live fantastic and amusing adventures: to visit an inventor of words, to face a terrible monster, to meet another princess with sweet lips… A daring tale that tackles female homosexuality with humour, naturalness and freshness, and celebrates love without prejudice, but with the necessary sensitivity for a young reader in emotional education. With his personal illustrative style, Quarello brings out the characters personalities in a way totally in rhythm with the text, and efficiently transmits a message of normality and verisimilitude, at the same time masterly evoking the feelings that invade a person when growing and experimenting their first love. Text by Xerardo Quintiá Illustrations by Maurizio A. C. Quarello Translation by Mark W. Heslop