El músico del Gulag

He says his name is Gregori Makarov, having played the accordion as a child before Stalin and living an impossible love story that led him to be interned in the terrible labor camp of Kolyma, one of the most remote and inhospitable places in Siberia, from which he cannot came out alive. But he survived, and his life was told by a journalist, until it was discovered that he had been deceived. That it was not true, but neither was it a lie, that his existence had been built, like so many others, with bits and pieces of what can be known and what must be hidden. Trapped by a society moralized to the comic, which only wants to know the truth if it is "its truth", sweet and fair, the journalist undertakes an obsessive investigation into the life of Makarov that takes him to the places where the twentieth century left its mark. great lies and their terrible truth. Between bittersweet satire and philosophical parody, The Musician of the Gulag is a descent into the personal demons of a journalist at the end of his career, when he feels that his time has passed, when he discovers that the man who lied to him will be the one to save him. Do we really want to know the truth, or something that looks like what we would like to see happen?