The life of Jesus Christ was that first great disruptive story from the idea of a human being conceived "magic" through. Only that there are characters in even more anomalous situations. Worse than being stateless is being stateless. Beings who arrived in the world marked by a destiny of uprooting, from detachment and the lack of a maternal bed that shelters the first days in the world.
Nothing more violent and nothing more alienating. Without shelter in childhood, the soul heads for the disturbing unanswered questions. Except for remote testimonies that may point to strange abysses where a mother had to inhabit, before letting out of her entrails her abandonment for her offspring and for herself.
A manuscript. A young woman faced with a terrible fate. A castle. A disturbing and fascinating gothic novel. A priest recalls an event that happened forty-four years ago that changed his life: he was asked to go to a mental hospital to bless the corpse of an inmate and someone warned him that, among the clothes of the deceased, he would find a manuscript.
It tells the story of the teenage daughter of a poor peasant family, whose father sells her as a servant to a man who lives in a castle with his mother, his wife, who never leaves her room, and a stable boy. . The man is obsessed with having an heir that his wife cannot give him and the young woman has been taken to the castle for that purpose...
The manuscript unravels that atrocious story, with episodes of extreme violence and cruelty. But questions remain to be answered: what was the fate of the child conceived in such terrible circumstances? How did the young woman end up in the asylum? What is related in those papers, did it happen as it is told? Are there still hidden secrets?
The reader has in his hands a novel with gothic overtones that presents a descent into the infernos of the human soul. A disturbing narrative that catches us from the first pages, keeps us guessing and surprises us with its unexpected twists and turns. A novel that, through word of mouth, became an unexpected and overwhelming bestseller in France, and is on the way to repeating that success on its international leap.
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