Brodeck – (Idioma: Inglés)

A powerful and moving novel about the ravages of war and the need to tell the truth, even in the face of adversity.

After the close of a great war, a mysterious strangers arrives in a small european village. He is an artist and he begins sketching the villagers, showing the painful reality of the crimes and betrayals the war left in its wake. Consumed by distrust, the villagers conspire and murder him. The authorities commission Brodeck, a timid. low-level bureaucrat, to write a report that essentially whitewashes the incident. Brodeck agrees to write the official account, but he simultaneously sets down his version of the incident in a parallel narrative, which interweaves his own horrific experiences as a prisoner of war, the truth about the stranger’s disappearance, and the dark secrets the village have fought fiercely to keep hidden.