'The Child', by Fernando Aramburu: the difficulty of narrating the world in ruins left by a dead son. The author of 'Patria' novels a family tragedy to tell a collective and real drama, the death of 50 children in 1980 in a gas explosion at the school in a town in Biscay.

At the narrative heart of this novel everything is absence. An irreparable and clamorous absence, that of Nuco, the child of the title, who died at the age of six.