And in this novel specifically, escape is summed up...in the entire story!
You feel that you must return to this novel after the end
As if it was the happy ending that was supposed to be
That this was the eternal moment, that it was the right decision that had to be taken
If only we could strike a balance between pleasure and suffering...
And to escape from fears for certainty..
To learn to escape from our deadly questions to save the moments we love!
Let us enjoy stability on the shoulder of safety
Don't run away from us..
Fifteen years after his military coup and his control of power, General Bionche decides to respond to popular and international pressure and hold a presidential referendum that determines his fate. The Minister of the Interior summons advertising expert and former detainee Adrian Bettini. To convince him to lead the campaign to make Pyoncé a success, the leader of the opposition coalition consisting of sixteen discordant parties proposes to Bettini a crazy idea: running the election campaign for the “No” campaign, which is embodied only in a short television advertisement.
Instead of the usual focus on the massacres, detainees, and the horrors of the past period, Bettini suggests that the title of the campaign be: Joy is Coming. Will a fifteen-minute announcement succeed in overthrowing a dictatorial rule that lasted fifteen years?
In an optimistic, poetic style, Scarmetta tells a true struggle story of hope and joy, in the darkest of times, in a country longing for freedom.
