The hundredth monkey effect
Similar: we see the little hands and little fingers (oh, the defining opposable thumb) and they seem so human. Then we look them in the eyes and the familiarity is...
Víctor García Tur
Writer
Víctor García Tur (Barcelona, 1981) has a degree in Ophthalmology.
His first collection of short stories, Twistanschauung (Empúries, 2009), won the Documenta Award, and his novels Els ocells [The Birds] (Empúries, 2016) and Els romanents [The Remnants] (Empúries, 2018) received the Marian Vayreda and Just M. Casero Awards, respectively. The stories in El país dels cecs [The Land of the Blind] (Proa, 2018) won him the Mercè Rodoreda Award. Other stories of his have been collected in several anthologies.
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