Summary
Alessandro Baricco: Without Blood
A Mercedes with four men stops near the property lost in a desolate area. The owner of the property, sensing danger, hides his daughter Nina in a shaft under the floor. After the shooting that followed, the men from the Mercedes broke into the house, and the owner, accused of being a torturer in the recently ended war, was brutally killed together with his son. Before leaving the estate, the youngest killer notices an opening in the floor and opens it, but because of the girl's disarming look, he does not give her away.
About fifty years later, the former girl, now an elderly lady, finds the only survivor of the killers - the one who, discovering her in the hiding place, spared her life...
This short novel centers on war as a metonymy of harshness, pain, cruelty, depravity, revenge and fear.
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