There are times when language accompanies a story with the most precise lightness. Because searching for a disappeared person does not require lyrical or artifice. Narrative sobriety makes this path to personal reunion a composition of verisimilitude and proximity to bring us all closer to the truth in the face of myths, gossip and that kind of black legend that hangs over everyone who decides to escape from the scene why not feel like he's playing the right role.
The funny thing is that the search ends up being an initiatory journey. Because the reasons for abandonment, for that exit from the forum end up opening us up like that rabidly mimetic clarity. In literature you can empathize with even the most abhorrent criminal, but what is certainly surprising is the chill that can produce empathy with a character who could inhabit our lives. Because then certain abysses get too close.
For years Alberto fuguet he heard diffuse or elusive stories about the whereabouts of his uncle Carlos, who one day simply disappeared from the family environment. With the vague indication that he might be lost in the United States, the nephew, now a well-known writer, began an investigation in which he mixed facts and speculations, intuitions and memories. Missing, the book that records everything, is not so much a thriller, because the uncle appears soon and his voice takes the novel, but a captivating autobiographical inquiry and an exploration into the human will to disappear, into the drifts of failure. A journey down the unpaved roads of the American dream. This edition includes an epilogue that tells the behind-the-scenes of the novel and a certain journalistic farce that surrounded its appearance.
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