Fangs
Salvador Macip · Sebastià Roig

Pages: 256
Target: 14+
First edition: 2011


JOAQUIM RUYRA YOUNG ADULT'S AWARD 2009

A thriller inspired on true events, written by two people and full of fantasy and horror. Survival is difficult in the reformatory. And this is without taking into account the mysterious and savage killer creatures that surround them. In 2006, the newspapers published the news of the alleged abuse suffered by some foreign boys in a reformatory of a very special kind, located in the rugged terrain of L'Alt Empordà (Catalonia) The isolated setting, the hygienic conditions in which they lived and the discipline used described a nightmare scenario. "Fangs" is inspired on some of these elements, and uses them as the point of departure to construct a striking and addictive work of fiction. A real page-turner that you just can't put down until the last page. A work that goes far beyond young people's literature, and which can be compared to the best Stephen King; therefore, its target is universal.

Synopsis
Vicent is an upper-class teenager used to doing whatever he wants. His father feels that he has lost all control over him and takes a radical step: sending him to some exclusive camps, famous among the elite for their success in re-educating troublesome teenagers. Vicent quite soon experiences their methods, when they make him spend hours locked up in a small room in which he barely fits and can't move. He will gradually have to adapt to a sick world of cruel and extreme discipline. But Vicent will see that all this is not by any means the worst thing that could happen to him. He is soon to find out about some mysterious creatures, wild and murderous, which besiege the installations. And that his friends at the camp are little more than cannon fodder.

About the authors:
Salvador Macip (La Selva, 1970) is a doctor of molecular genetics and researcher at Leicester University, England. Sebastià Roig (Figueres, 1965) is a journalist and has worked on all the most important newspapers and magazines. They write literature together and on their own, and have won different prizes.