Without Blood (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Alessandro Baricco
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Novella
- Time of Work: 2004
- Setting: A small town
- Principal Characters: Manuel Roca, Nina Roca, Tito, Salinas, El Gurre
- Genres: Long fiction, Novella, Translation
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, War, Farms, farmers, or farming, Revenge, Assassination, Survival, 2000’s
Without Blood begins ominously, with a lonely farmhouse silhouetted against a dark sky as a Mercedes flies by on a dusty country road. Manuel Roca, resident of the house, hides his daughter, Nina, in a cellar, and with his teenage son awaits intruders. When he refuses to leave the house, they spray machine gun fire and quickly gain entrance.
Roca is accused of war crimes against patients at a hospital, which he denies, and Salinas, head of the intruders, whose brother was brutalized at that hospital, shoots Roca in the knee. Roca's son comes to his father's defense and is...
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