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Sus dos vidas convergen, y de qué manera, por esos azares erráticos de la vida. Ya desde un primer momento se siente la potencia latente del impacto que causará aquel encuentro entre Luz y la persona que habría sido escogida sólo para escuchar con detenimiento y escribir; porque, finalmente, lo que aquella mujer necesitaba era dejar registrados con lujo de detalles los pormenores de su complicada y azarosa vida. La novela recoge con acierto la historia. Con tono biográfico se nos van presentando los hechos que matizarían los avatares cotidianos de aquel misterioso y solitario personaje de mediana edad. El drama se maneja con intriga y pasión. Su autor nos invita a reconocer aquí los territorios ocultos y casi siempre negados de la existencia misma. El escenario será propicio para reafirmar la atmósfera truculenta y fría.

Friday, December 13, 2015. Jihadist attacks take place in three different parts of Paris. The most serious is that of the Bataclan Room. The result is more than a hundred dead and almost half a thousand wounded. Years later, for nine months, the trial is held. There are fourteen defendants: the main one is the only survivor among the Islamic State terrorists who participated in the massacre. He survived because he did not detonate his belt with explosives. Why did the mechanism fail? Why was he afraid? Because he had a fleeting moment of regret and humanity? The rest are collaborators to varying degrees. And then there are the witnesses -survivors who tell extremely harsh stories-, the relatives of the deceased, the severe prosecutors, the defense lawyers, the court... Journalism turned into literature through the insightful gaze of Carrère.

t opens with a man sitting in a room. The man does not remember his name, and a camera hidden in the ceiling takes a picture of him once a second. He spends the single day spanned by the book being looked after, questioned and reading a fragmentary narrative. Mr. Blank learns he is accused of horrible crimes. But this may or may not be true, the narrative veers toward ambiguity.