This polyphonic story puts several fingers on the sore spot of our vulnerability and defenselessness, while maintaining the hope that any resistance, preferably collective and organized, is necessary.
This novel deals with the unpunished dispossession in which we live, with the systematic dispossession that diminishes us; it deals with the theft of privacy, the rule of mendacious information and biased knowledge, the regime of obsessive surveillance of citizens, born suspects, who are intended to be alienated from their right to defend their lives (their health, their education, their housing, their work, their affections, the dignity of their old age, etc.) and the lives of all (the climate crisis, the sustainability of resources, true equality, etc.).
Translating the motif of the watched guard to the digital world of large technology companies, Belén Gopegui puts several fingers on the wound of our vulnerability and defenselessness, while maintaining the hope that any resistance, preferably collective and organized, is necessary and valuable, no matter how small it may seem.
