Son Puig-gros is the farm that Miquel, who played the piglet when he was a child, obtained with the profits from a souvenir in Palmanova. He has become the lord of the great estate and its hundreds of quartered estates. In Son Puig-gros, the new lords hold a dinner to celebrate the event with friends, family, former owners, and neighbors. This is the contextual region where the story ofThe butchers, by Guillem Frontera, his first novel, for which he was awarded the Ciutat de Palma Prize. It was 1969, when we all thought that a bright new world was opening up before our eyes, while the young former student of La porciúncula, aspiring poet and budding novelist, saw and explained to us what none of us were capable of seeing, intuiting, or anything similar. Therefore, The butchers It is not a premonitory work nor Son Puig-gros, merely a metaphor, but evidence that the horn of plenty came with a toll, many tariffs and no turning back.

At seven or eight years old, a little boy from Sant Jordi (Palma) would say to his godfather: "When I grow up, I want an office, a comfortable chair, and air conditioning." "So what are you going to have in an office?" his godfather would ask. The boy didn't care: "What he knew was that I didn't want to move boxes of fruit or do physical labor like his father, who was a wholesaler."