The rainbow days

Based on the true story behind the advertising campaign that contributed to the downfall of Pinochet.

Nico sees his father, Philosophy professor Rodrigo Santos, being arrested during a lesson in front of the entire class and realizes that his main mission from now on is to save him. His beloved, Patricia Bettini, accompanies him through all this and together they will improvise full of humor and imagination, opening a path to freedom in a country immersed in dictatorship and silence.

A novel about fathers and sons, about teachers and students, who will do everything possible to bring colors and music back to the gray capital. With masterful prose, Antonio Scarmeta and the voice of his teenage protagonist tell us a true story full of expectation and hope in difficult times. The days of the rainbow are the epicenter of the narrative of The Impossible; of how, on October 5, 1988 in Chile, fifteen minutes of advertising time were enough to put an end to fifteen years of one of the darkest dictatorships in the world, that of Augusto Pinochet.

• Antonio Skármeta is the author of the book El cartero de Neruda, on which the multi-award-winning film Il postino (The Postman) was based.
• His work has been honored with the Prix Médicis, Grinzane Cavour, Elsa Morante, Boccaccio Internacional, Medalla Goethe and the UNESCO National Prize for Children's Literature.
• The novel Rainbow Days was honored in 2011 with the Ibero-American Prose Prize Premio Planeta – Casa de América.

THE Antonio Scarmeta was born in 1940 in Chile and is considered one of the most important writers in Latin America. He studied Philosophy and Literature in Chile and New York and taught literature at the University of Chile until 1973. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. He was Chilean ambassador to Germany and today lives in his country, devoting himself exclusively to literature.