Partes de guerra / War Dispatch

Jorge Volpi

Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Country
Mexico
Published
19 July 2022
Pages
320
ISBN
9786073811972

Partes de guerra / War Dispatch

Jorge Volpi

Del ganador del premio Biblioteca Breve con En busca de Klingsor, y del premio Alfaguara con Una novela criminal, regresa con esta, su novela mas intima.

Lucia pertenece a un equipo de investigacion, interdisciplinario, enfocado en estudiar el comportamiento humano, las motivaciones del mismo y sus consecuencias. Gabriel, el director del equipo, los ha convencido de ir a la frontera sur para estudiar el caso de una chica de 12 anos asesinada, apunalada, por su prima de la misma edad y el amigo/novio de ambas, y en presencia de dos pequenos testigos de 8 y 10 anos. El caso les genera fascinacion por distintas razones y sienten que pueden hacer una diferencia con su investigacion. Recien estan arrancando los acercamientos a los padres, las entrevistas con los chicos, el intercambio de teorias cuando Gabriel sufre un accidente automovilistico y muere. Tras su muerte, Lucia comienza a descubrir secretos oscuros de ese cientifico, amigo, protector, mentor, que la hacen pensar que el Gabriel que creyo conocer nunca existio.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

The winner of the Biblioteca Breve Prize, with In Search ofKlingsor, and the Alfaguara Award, with A CrimeNovel, Jorge Volpi returns with this, his most intimate novel so far.

Lucia is part of an interdisciplinary research team focused in studying human behavior, its motivations,and consequences. Gabriel, head of the team, has convinced them to goto the South border andstudy the case of a murdered twelve-year-old girl, stabbed by her cousin of the same age and the friend/boyfriend of them both, in the presence of two young witnesses, one eight and the other ten years of age. They find the case fascinatingfor several reasons, and they feel their research might make a difference.When they just begun approaching the parents, interviewing the kids, and interchanging theories, Gabriel dies in a car crash. After his death, Lucia discovers some dark secretspertaining this scientist, friend, protector, and mentor, making her believe the Gabriel she thought she knew never truly existed.

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