الفارسية 2023

What is more difficult? Dying or killing? Abir Nasr is a teenager who helplessly witnesses the murder of his family during an Israeli army mission in southern Lebanon. In front of the corpses of his mother and little sister, he swears that he will pursue the culprits for the rest of his life. Night after night, Abir's threat breaks into the sleep of Jacob Baudin, one of the soldiers who has participated in the action while fulfilling his mandatory military service, facing the dilemma of fighting against enemies he has not chosen. Jacob, the son of French parents, does not stop feeling like an immigrant in Israel and tries to reconcile himself with an identity that is given to him by his condition as a Jew. After the tragedy, Abir is taken in by relatives in Paris, where he feels trapped between two irreconcilable worlds: the suffocating family unit and the open society that offers him freedom and that is embodied by two young people: his cousin Noura, who rebels against the impositions of her father's religious fundamentalism, and Marion, a beautiful and lively teenager, with whom he falls obsessively in love. From Nowhere is a journey to the confines of the conscience of two men who are forced to live according to identities that they have not chosen and from which it is difficult to escape, whose lives cross again years later in Brussels under the smoke of the bombs with which The Circle, an Islamist organization, sows terror in the heart of Europe. A story that sinks its roots in human nature and its chiaroscuro. A vibrant novel by Julia Navarro that invites us to reflect on each of our certainties.