Out of nowhere

What is more difficult?

To die or to kill?

Abir Nasr is a teenager who, powerless, witnesses the murder of his family during an Israeli army mission in southern Lebanon. Faced with the bodies of his mother and little sister, he swears he will pursue the culprits for the rest of his life.

Night after night, Abir's threat intrudes into the dreams of Jacob Baudin, one of the soldiers who participated in the action while fulfilling his compulsory military service, facing the dilemma of fighting enemies he did not choose. Jacob, son of French parents, continues to feel like an immigrant in Israel and tries to reconcile himself with an identity given to him by his condition as a Jew.

After the tragedy, Abir is taken in by relatives in Paris, where he feels trapped between two irreconcilable worlds: the suffocating family core and the open society that offers him freedom and which is embodied by two young women: his cousin Noura, who rebels against the impositions of her father's religious fundamentalism, and Marion, a beautiful and vitalistic teenager, with whom he falls obsessively in love.

De ninguna parte (Out of Nowhere) is a journey to the confines of the consciousness of two men who are forced to live according to identities they have not chosen and from which it is difficult to escape, whose lives cross paths again years later in Brussels under the smoke of the bombs with which The Circle, an Islamist organization, sows terror in the heart of Europe.

A story rooted in human nature and its chiaroscuros. A vibrant novel by Julia Navarro that invites us to reflect on each of our certainties.