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140 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1993
He betrayed his son. He handed him over to the care of strangers who, taken together, were known as the Motherland. Motherland equals strangers. That’s what makes it terrifying, unfathomable and holy. Like everything else that’s alien.
"El hombre no es como una planta, arraiga en cualquier sitio."El tren cero, el dios de una comunidad que solo vive para que el diario paso del tren transcurra sin incidentes; un tren tan misterioso como cualquier otro dios del que nada se sabe: ni de donde parte ni a donde se dirige ni con qué objeto, el cero, la nada, el infinito. Un dios ante el que unos se postran, al que otros muestran una indiferencia resignada, al que algunos cuestionan, al que hay quien le sirve sin preguntar ni preguntarse y con el que otros sueñan; un dios frente al que algunos se desesperan hasta el suicidio o el asesinato.
"The Motherland trusts you," the colonel repeated, in a voice less steely than before. "I also have complete faith in you. Remember this, remember once and for all: you can be counted on. Those who didn't go through what you did can also be counted on, but you doubly so. Because you have no past. Who needs one ?”