Qu es ms difcil?

Morir o matar?

Abir Nasr es un adolescente que presencia, impotente, el asesinato de su familia durante una misin del ejrcito israel en el sur de Lbano. Ante los cadveres de su madre y hermana pequea, jura que perseguir a los culpables durante el resto de su vida.

Noche tras noche la amenaza de Abir irrumpe en el sueo de Jacob Baudin, uno de los soldados que ha participado en la accin mientras cumpla con el servicio militar obligatorio, enfrentndose al dilema de luchar contra enemigos que no ha elegido. Jacob, hijo de padres franceses, no deja de sentirse un emigrante en Israel e intenta reconciliarse con una identidad que le viene dada por su condicin de judo.

Despus de la tragedia, Abir es acogido por unos familiares en Pars, donde se siente atrapado entre dos mundos irreconciliables, el asfixiante ncleo familiar y la sociedad abierta que le ofrece libertad y que encarnan dos jvenes: su prima Noura, que se rebela contra las imposiciones del integrismo religioso de su padre y Marion, una adolescente hermosa y vitalista, de la que se enamora de forma obsesiva.

De ninguna parte es un viaje a los confines de la conciencia de dos hombres que se ven obligados a vivir de acuerdo a unas identidades que no han escogido y de las que es difcil escapar, cuyas vidas se vuelven a cruzar aos ms tarde en Bruselas bajo el humo de las bombas con las que El Crculo, una organizacin islamista, siembra el terror en el corazn de Europa.

Una historia que hunde sus races en la naturaleza humana y sus claroscuros. Una vibrante novela de Julia Navarro que nos invita a reflexionar sobre cada una de nuestras certezas.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

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.

Out of 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. Out of nowhere is a vibrant novel by Julia Navarro, that invites us to reflect upon each of our own certainties.