Beatriz Bittencourt, known simply as Bia, is an editor born in São Paulo, the economic capital of Brazil and the most populous city in the Southern Hemisphere. Before coming to live in Catalonia, she worked for the most influential newspaper in the Latin American country, Folha de São Paulo. She also ran a bookstore and collaborated with Plana, an independent literature festival. With this background, she landed in Barcelona in 2018, driven by personal reasons. Upon arrival, she founded the publishing house No Libros, with the desire to integrate into Catalan society through a project based on the premise of creating other forms of knowledge circulation and production. Before fully discovering what she wanted to do, she admits that she edited varied works by different authors, in search of a common thread that would give meaning to the whole of her publications.

If Ana and André hadn't wanted children and she hadn't gotten pregnant, if they hadn't moved to a new apartment and hadn't had Madalena and Miguel as neighbors, Mariana Salomão Carrara (São Paulo, 1986) wouldn't have found a novelist who could read the shocking novel in a novelist. The keen eye of the publishing house Les Hores and the skill of the book's translator, Pere Comellas, have made it possible for readers to discover If it weren't for the syllables of Saturday, a story that begins with the cracked head of André, Ana's husband, in the entrance to the apartment building where they lived. The man was the collateral victim of a neighbor's suicide: as André left the apartment, Miguel fell on him.