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The woman who learned to say no
- Mari Splash doesn't want any lucky quails. By Nunila López Salamero and Myriam Cameros Sierra. (Translated by: Itziar de Blas and Mikel Garmendia) The Applause (2009).
Mari Splash tried the glass shoes. They were too small, but he kept pushing and squeezing until he made a mistake... it was worth trying, because he was going to marry the prince!
One day, he shouted, “Enough!” He realized that the princes would not save him, not even the truckers, disco setters and/or pastry chefs. He realized that the only thing that can save you is you. She cried until she felt empty. Now I had nothing to do but fill her with beautiful things. But he had left the prince before. And don't think it's easy. It's so hard that sometimes you repeat it with two or three more princes.Mari Splash, from the storyteller Nunila
López Salamero (Barcelona, 1966) and the illustrator Myriam Cameros Sierra (Pamplona, 1978), doesn’t want a lucky quail.
It’s a tale of learning to love ourselves and say “enough!” in the face of things we don’t like. Not everything is what we want to believe. A woman can be free, outside of strict schemes that tell us who to do it with. “The fairy named Basta first appeared to me 20 years ago, two days before my wedding, when I was three months old, and... saved me!” says Nunila Lopez at the end of the book. “Since then I am a mother who has lived alone and happy (at least when possible). I don’t trust princes, even though I’ve spent half my life looking for one.”
López and Myriam Cameros met at the bar of a bar in Barcelona. “I’m going to make some illustrations for your stories,” she told him. “They all tell me the same thing,” Lopez replied without much conviction. Soon after, however, Cameros showed him his drawings. Mari Splash with a big head, eyes, mouth left Lopez impressed. A crazy figure who was born to be free, one who did it to the fullest with the stories he told. His gestures were so expressive...
“It’s like Thelma & Louise, but without a gun, it’s wonderfully liberating.” These are the words of the journalist Montserrat Dominguez. Mari Splash doesn't have a gun, but her broad smile can eat the whole universe. It also has its own munshower on the Internet: lacenicientaquenoqueriacomerperdices.com
One day, he shouted, “Enough!” He realized that the princes would not save him, not even the truckers, disco setters and/or pastry chefs. He realized that the only thing that can save you is you. She cried until she felt empty. Now I had nothing to do but fill her with beautiful things. But he had left the prince before. And don't think it's easy. It's so hard that sometimes you repeat it with two or three more princes.Mari Splash, from the storyteller Nunila
López Salamero (Barcelona, 1966) and the illustrator Myriam Cameros Sierra (Pamplona, 1978), doesn’t want a lucky quail.
It’s a tale of learning to love ourselves and say “enough!” in the face of things we don’t like. Not everything is what we want to believe. A woman can be free, outside of strict schemes that tell us who to do it with. “The fairy named Basta first appeared to me 20 years ago, two days before my wedding, when I was three months old, and... saved me!” says Nunila Lopez at the end of the book. “Since then I am a mother who has lived alone and happy (at least when possible). I don’t trust princes, even though I’ve spent half my life looking for one.”
López and Myriam Cameros met at the bar of a bar in Barcelona. “I’m going to make some illustrations for your stories,” she told him. “They all tell me the same thing,” Lopez replied without much conviction. Soon after, however, Cameros showed him his drawings. Mari Splash with a big head, eyes, mouth left Lopez impressed. A crazy figure who was born to be free, one who did it to the fullest with the stories he told. His gestures were so expressive...
“It’s like Thelma & Louise, but without a gun, it’s wonderfully liberating.” These are the words of the journalist Montserrat Dominguez. Mari Splash doesn't have a gun, but her broad smile can eat the whole universe. It also has its own munshower on the Internet: lacenicientaquenoqueriacomerperdices.com
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