Death is the greatest mystery, the greatest enigma that can hang over us if we see life as a novel. The before and after of the temporal thread is cut off for those who are left with doubts, analyzing loneliness as they would never have considered considering it.
Of that loneliness that addresses Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde In a preface to the novel, the most complete nuances are discovered, once one of so many threads suspended in the limbo of coincidences and fatalities of our world have been cut. And from there surely the characters of this intense story were born from its merely narrative aspect but also in its most existentialist aspect.
Young Kim had made her life in Alicante, away from her parents and her English origins. Until the bullets of his sinister fate ended up materializing a new case that should never have been. John and Geraldine, the girl's parents, go there. Each one comes from his new life because the family nucleus has not existed for many years. And the first idea raised is that of a buried guilt, which can appear when situations do not develop within what is considered as usual.
A separation is the most logical when things do not go well. But in this fateful moment, so many years later, the decision looms as a distant cause for Kim's death. And yet, perhaps precisely because of the distance agreed between John and Geraldine, both quickly join forces to clarify what happened with Kim. Everything points to a case of sentimental revenge of the most brutal machismo. But the fringes are studied in detail by the police as well as by their parents in parallel.
After Kim. Everything is dark after Kim. Although from the depths of that darkness there is still something to rescue, something to continue with strength. Geraldine and John know that they are grandparents and they set out to find the boy.
All the worst can, or rather must, find a sublimation to continue living. The novel unfolds in the course of reaching the truth and locating the boy and the complementary ramification of the relationship between Geraldine and John.
The bitterest of reunions serves here to join forces. They would never want to meet again to experience such a situation shoulder to shoulder. But at worst there can also be some recomposition in that area of sentimental relationships in which there is no way back and forth, but twists and turns towards the centripetal and inexplicable force of love.
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