Fast, slow

(Portuguese edition)

We may not hear its ticking, but the truth is that clocks are all around us. From the morning to bedtime, they go on, relentlessly, measuring time, making us run or pause, even when we don’t feel like doing so.

Outside, time operates in one way; inside, it operates in another. But it is not always easy to go at the right pace… which is why “fast” and “slow” are two of the words that this little boy hears most frequently throughout the day…

In this book, a boy talks about his discovery of these two times: the external, which “passes through a counting machine”, and that other time – internal time which is infinitely elastic and where games, daydreams, thoughts and aimless wandering all fit.