Synopsis "From Nowhere (in English)"
Which is harder? Killing? Or dying? Abir Nasr is a teenager that witnesses helplessthe murder of his family during a mission of the Israeli Army, South ofLebanon. Before his mother and his little sister's dead bodies, he vows to huntthose responsible for the rest of his life. Night after night, Abir's threat disturbs JacobBaudin's sleep. He was one of the soldiers that participated in the missionwhile doing his mandatory active service, facing the predicament to fightagainst enemies he never chose. Jacob, born to French parents, still feels likean immigrant in Israel and tries to reconcile an identity merely granted by hisstatus as a Jew. After the tragedy, Abir moves to Paris to livewith relatives, where he now feels trapped between two irreconcilableworlds--his asphyxiating family and an open society that offers freedom, incarnate in two young women, his cousin Noura, rebellious against theimposition of her father's religious fundamentalism, and Marion, a beautifuland vital teenager, for whom Abir falls obsessively in love. From Nowhere is a journey to the bounds of theconsciousness of two men forced to live by identities they didn't choose andcan't escape from, whose lives intersect yet again in Brussels, years later, under the heavy smoke of bombing, while an Islamic organization called TheCircle terrorizes the heart of Europe. It is a story rooted in human nature and itscontrasts. From Nowhere is a vibrant novel by Julia Navarro, thatinvites us to reflect upon each of our own certainties.
