The laws of the border
Original title: Las leyes de la frontera
Synopsis
In the summer of 1978, when Spain has not yet left Franco and does not end up entering democracy and social and moral borders seem more porous than ever before, a teenager named Ignacio Cañas by chance knows the Zarco and Tere, two criminals of his age, an encounter that will change his life forever. Thirty years later, a writer is commissioned to write a book on the Zarco, which by then became a myth of the juvenile crime of the Transition, but what the writer finally finds is not the concrete truth of the Zarco, but an unexpected and universal truth, which concerns us all. Thus, through a story that does not grant an instant of truce, hiding its extraordinary complexity under a transparent surface, the novel becomes a passionate inquiry into the limits of our freedom, the inscrutable motivations of our acts and the inasible nature of truth. It also confirms Javier Cercas as one of the indispensable figures of contemporary European narrative.
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