22/11/63, of Stephen King

Stephen King He manages at will the virtue of turning any story, no matter how improbable, into a close and surprising plot. Its main trick lies in the profiles of characters whose thoughts and behaviors it knows how to make our own, no matter how strange and/or macabre they may be.

On this occasion, the name of the novel is the date of a momentous event in world history, the day of Kennedy assassination in Dallas. Much has been written about the assassination, about the possibilities that the accused was not the one who killed the president, about hidden wills and hidden interests that sought to remove the American president from the middle.

King does not join the conspiracy trends that point to causes and murderers different from what was said at the time. He only talks about a small bar where the protagonist usually drinks some coffee. Until one day his owner tells him about something strange, about a place in the pantry where he can travel to the past.

Sounds like a strange, strange argument, right? The funny thing is that good old Stephen makes any initial approach perfectly credible, through that narrative naturalness.

The protagonist ends up crossing the threshold that leads him to the past. He comes and goes a few times ... until he sets a final goal of his travels, to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination.

Einstein already said it, is it possible to travel through time. But what the wise scientist did not say is that time travel takes its toll, causes personal and general consequences. The attraction of this story is to know if Jacob Epping, the protagonist, manages to avoid the assassination and to discover what effects this traveling from here to there has.

Meanwhile, with the unique narrative of King, Jacob is discovering a new life in that past. Go through one more and discover that you like that Jacob more than the one from the future. But the past in which he seems determined to live knows that he does not belong to that moment, and time is merciless, also for those who travel through it.

What will become of Kennedy? What will become of Jacob? What will become of the future? ...

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