The Colombian writer Laura Restrepo establishes as the starting point of his latest novel a tragic event that shocked all of Colombia a short time ago.
The appearance of the body of a girl floating in the waters of a river is a fact macabre enough to think of true psychopaths capable of abusing a defenseless neighbor to death in a true demonstration of perversion and evil.
Starting a fiction that seeks explanations beyond the rugged reality or that runs increasingly frequent red lines in almost every social environment in our world, would seem a difficult mission for this Colombian author.
But in the end, the idea of responsibility, of literature's commitment to the most repulsive facts of which we are capable as human beings must have weighed more. Because whether we like it or not, the girl's murderers were alike, only deranged and psychotic to the worst.
If Laura also tells us that the murderers can be a group of young people of a high social level, capable of subjecting a girl to all kinds of humiliations to end up killing her, the matter is still darker. The homicide then becomes an action of superiority, of the false belief that the least favored are expendable beings at the whim of their most unhealthy drives.
Recreating everything must be hard, trying to represent the most wicked characters of a novel exported directly from reality must have its one, but the author's commitment faced everything. His intention to raise the cards and present facts towards a profound exercise in retraining justify this account.
A real crime that shook an entire society. An allegation against feminicide, by one of the most important authors in Spanish today.
The body of a girl is found floating in the water in what appears to be a ritual. At the bottom of this episode is the superficial world of rich and successful young people who have maintained an evil brotherhood since childhood and that contrasts with that of the poor victim, a survivor of the violence in their place of origin.
Laura Restrepo puts her good literary work at the service of the cause of femicide, reaching heights of deepening in any reader who faces that crude reality turned into a novel but with the constant evocation that all this can happen out there ...
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