Politics

"You wouldn't give your child a glass of wine to relax, would you? So why would you give him your cell phone?"

Joël Dicker (Geneva, 1985) explains that with each new book he sets himself a challenge, and that this time the objective was to put himself in the shoes of a child. Joséphine, the protagonist of The catastrophic visit to the zoo (La Campana / Alfaguara, translated by Imma Falcó), is a "special girl", precocious and with a long tongue who finds herself thrust into a crazy adventure accompanied by her classmates. The book begins with an apparently deliberate flood that triggers a series of unexpected events with the rhythm that Dicker has already demonstrated in best-sellers previous, how The truth about the Harry Quebert case (2013) and The Baltimore Book (2016).

Joël Dicker (Geneva, 1985) explains that with each new book he sets himself a challenge, and that this time the objective was to put himself in the shoes of a child. Joséphine, the protagonist of (La Campana / Alfaguara, translated by Imma Falcó), is a "special girl", precocious and with a long tongue who finds herself thrust into a crazy adventure accompanied by her classmates. The book begins with an apparently deliberate flood that triggers a series of unexpected events with the rhythm that Dicker has already demonstrated in previous, how (2013) and (2016).

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