El hombre que mató a Messi | Emma Riverola | book new | sale

Emma Riverola

Edhasa : Tusitala | 2015

284 | 6h 50m

spanish | softcover | new | sale

22cm x 13,6cm | 330gr

The culprit. Messi's death has accompanied Jaro since that distant day when he collided, during a match, with the most adored footballer in history and he fell dead on the edge of the area. Alone, confused and sullen, his life is a constant escape from his past. The victim. Gaia dreams of being invisible since her mother died in the ETA attack on Hipercor, in Barcelona. A lover of literature, she shapes her life from a fiction that she herself recreates every day. Only in the domains of the imagination does he find a refuge for his pain. When, years later, Jaro and Gaia meet, their respective universes are shaken. Gaia delves into Jaro's halo of darkness and mystery, while he immerses himself in the balm of fiction that Gaia offers him. Little by little, the borders are blurring. Also reality. Will it all be a utopia? With delicate and honest prose, articulated as only great storytellers know how, Emma Riverola gives us this novel, which tells one and a thousand stories at a time: that of her characters, but also those of all of us. Because "The Man Who Killed Messi" is not - or is not only - a novel about football, or a love story, or a reflection on guilt and forgiveness; It is, above all, a story that delves into the depths of human misery and hope.