Toda la soledad del centro de la tierra

In a forgotten town in northern Mexico, a boy walks down a dark road, determined to find the parents who abandoned him. El Chaparro, as Grandma Librada and the rest of his family call him, is small and elusive, an insurmountable champion in the game of hide and seek, thanks to a fantastic superpower that he believes he possesses: he is capable of becoming invisible while imagining that the old man The closet where he hides from his cousins is the bottomless pit that appears, always blind and threatening, in the legends his family tells each other. From this unfathomable well emerge, in a kind of blind and sorrowful chorus, the voices of the countless disappeared of the town, victims of a wave of violence that threatens to annihilate everything, to reduce it to death and ashes. In this novel as short as it is intense, halfway between poetry and narrative, fiction and real testimony, Luis Jorge Boone weaves with extraordinary sensitivity a plot where helplessness, childhood orphanhood and human mourning are questioned by the proportion of soul that survives the cruelty that man exercises against man himself.