In Ciudad Nueva, real tea is illegal, memory is dangerous, and a nineteen-year-old just spent all her savings on a single dried leaf hidden inside an old book. Now an inspector has written her name in his notebook.
Part 1 of 2 in The Forbidden Leaf
El café estatal número doce estaba lleno, pero nadie hablaba. Fuera, la lluvia caía sobre la ciudad gris. Delfina miró su taza.
Opening lines