In addition to being a poet and literary critic, Joan Todó is a vigorous narrator, author of a narrative that elaborates very interesting and unconventional pseudo-novelistic forms as The first horizon (L'Avenç, 2013) or The green one is taken (Godall, 2021), which has also been dedicated to the form of the short story.In pockets (LaBreu, 2011) and Thieves (LaBreu, 2016), without forgetting "The Navel of the World", a story included inIn search of flamenco, a volume co-written with Jaume C. Pons Alorda and Sebastià Portell, whose geographical focus was the Ebro Delta, one of Todó's literary territories. He was originally from the interior (Sénia) but also a keen connoisseur of rice-growing landscapes. It is precisely a story that takes place directly, with a migrant disembarking from a small boat on a fine sandy beach, that opens the book. The sweetness of living, which is a collection that seems very consciously ordered, so that each piece is exactly where it belongs.