Which is harder?
Killing? Or dying?
Abir Nasr is a teenager that witnesses helpless
the murder of his family during a mission of the Israeli Army, South
of
Lebanon. Before his mother and his little sister's dead bodies, he vows
to hunt
those responsible for the rest of his life.
Night after night, Abir's threat disturbs Jacob
Baudin's sleep. He was one of the soldiers that participated in the
mission
while doing his mandatory active service, facing the predicament to
fight
against enemies he never chose. Jacob, born to French parents, still
feels like
an immigrant in Israel and tries to reconcile an identity merely granted
by his
status as a Jew.
After the tragedy, Abir moves to Paris to live
with relatives, where he now feels trapped between two irreconcilable
worlds--his asphyxiating family and an open society that offers
freedom,
incarnate in two young women, his cousin Noura, rebellious against the
imposition of her father's religious fundamentalism, and Marion, a
beautiful
and vital teenager, for whom Abir falls obsessively in love.
From Nowhere is a journey to the bounds of the
consciousness of two men forced to live by identities they didn't choose
and
can't escape from, whose lives intersect yet again in Brussels, years
later,
under the heavy smoke of bombing, while an Islamic organization called
The
Circle terrorizes the heart of Europe**.**
It is a story rooted in human nature and its
contrasts. From Nowhere is a vibrant novel by Julia Navarro,
that
invites us to reflect upon each of our own certainties.
