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Vidas ajenas, Las

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Vidas ajenas, Las
Vidas ajenas, Las

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Vidas ajenas, Las

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Daniel hace tiempo que se extravió en su adicción a los medicamentos y en el desánimo. Claude aún cree que trabajando duro se puede llegar a algo. Los dos viven en Bruselas y se dedican a vaciar casas de personas fallecidas, la mayoría sin familiares o de hogares tan pobres que nadie quiere hacerse cargo de la mudanza. Kasongo fue alguien en su país, pero aquí está cojo, es pobre y ha perdido su amuleto de la suerte. Chantal es una madre soltera agotada, cargada de responsabilidades, harta de su vida precaria y de carecer de futuro, también para su niña. Hasta que Daniel encuentra en una casa que les toca vaciar, por una vez la casa de un rico, unas fotos comprometedoras relacionadas con el pasado colonial de Bélgica. Empieza entonces un intento de chantaje necesariamente chapucero en el que los participantes son unos aficionados y tienen que ir aprendiendo todo sobre la marcha. Los chantajeados -el banquero Lebeaux y su factótum Degand-, en cambio, saben desenvolverse perfectamente en el mundo de las finanzas y en el del crimen. Una novela que narra el encuentro de dos mundos que por lo general nunca se tocan e indaga en el pasado -y el presente- violento sobre el que se asienta nuestro precario bienestar.
Daniel has long been lost in his drug addiction and discouragement. Claude still believes that by working hard you can achieve something. The two live in Brussels and are dedicated to emptying houses of deceased people, most of them without relatives or from homes so poor that nobody wants to take charge of the move. Kasongo was someone in his country, but here he is lame, poor and has lost his lucky charm. Chantal is an exhausted single mother, burdened with responsibilities, fed up with her precarious life and the lack of a future, also for her little girl. Until Daniel finds in a house that they have to empty, for once the house of a rich man, some compromising photos related to Belgium's colonial past. He then begins a necessarily botched blackmail attempt in which the participants are amateurs and have to learn everything as they go. The blackmailed - the banker Lebeaux and his handyman Degand -, on the other hand, know how to function perfectly in the world of finance and crime. A novel that narrates the meeting of two worlds that usually never touch and investigates the violent past -and present- on which our precarious well-being is based.

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