From Nowhere

Which is harder? Killing? Or dying?

Abir Nasr is a teenager that witnesses helpless

the murder of his family during a mission of the Israeli Army, South of

Lebanon. Before his mother and his little sister's dead bodies, he vows to hunt

those responsible for the rest of his life. Night after night, Abir's threat disturbs Jacob

Baudin's sleep. He was one of the soldiers that participated in the mission

while doing his mandatory active service, facing the predicament to fight

against enemies he never chose. Jacob, born to French parents, still feels like

an immigrant in Israel and tries to reconcile an identity merely granted by his

status as a Jew. After the tragedy, Abir moves to Paris to live

with relatives, where he now feels trapped between two irreconcilable

worlds--his asphyxiating family and an open society that offers freedom,

incarnate in two young women, his cousin Noura, rebellious against the

imposition of her father's religious fundamentalism, and Marion, a beautiful

and vital teenager, for whom Abir falls obsessively in love. From Nowhere is a journey to the bounds of the

consciousness of two men forced to live by identities they didn't choose and

can't escape from, whose lives intersect yet again in Brussels, years later,

under the heavy smoke of bombing, while an Islamic organization called The

Circle terrorizes the heart of Europe. It is a story rooted in human nature and its

contrasts. From Nowhere is a vibrant novel by Julia Navarro, that

invites us to reflect upon each of our own certainties.