Reviewed: "No Greater Love" - Del Coco Domenico

Buenos Aires, today. A family that looks normal, where everything is perfect, is distorted by the thesis that his son Esteban Ezequiel Puccini, the protagonist of the novel, is preparing for his graduation. The boy, Argentine of Italian origin, is working on a thesis on desaparecidos. When he documents something, he lived in that dark period of Argentina in the 1970s. Suddenly, a silence and a suspicious silence descend upon the house. Someone carries a painful secret within him. Esteban begins to notice the physiognomic differences with her brothers and wonders why her mother behaves too protectively with him. What does he hide from his son? And why does my father sometimes treat him cold? Why do you have a more detached relationship with him, your firstborn? In a rhythm of continuous tension the reader will discover aspects of the story that involved not only Argentineans but also the rest of the world. Who were the desaparecidos? What are death flights? And why did Videla want to eliminate so many Argentineans? These are the questions that the reader will ask himself together with the protagonist.

We are in Argentina, Esteban Ezequiel Rodriguez Puccini, of Italian origin, lives in Buenos Aires and although he knows Italian he has never been in Italy, the land of his ancestors.
He works as an employee, he is deeply in love with Julia and has a wonderful relationship with her.
As soon as he can, Esteban reaches Jose de Balcarce, the small village where he was born and where his family still lives, his parents and his beloved brothers a few years younger, Tomas and Jorge, to whom he is very attached. The three brothers have an almost enviable relationship, they are always there for each other.
Everyone's life passes quietly and happily, some problems with the economic crisis, some flaws

which happens between brothers, in short, the classic domestic life of a family.
Things change, however, when Esteban decides to graduate for the second time and his thesis is based on the Desaparecidos.
Esteban starts collecting the material, but there is something that is not clear to him, and while he reads books and diaries written by the survivors, he begins to get away from everything around him and seems to relive what he reads, he seems to be a spectator of those horrible events.
Slowly he begins to ask himself questions... "Why is he so physically different from his brothers?"why does the mother always try to protect him and treat him gently?"Why does it seem that his family is hiding something from him?".
The truth will be shocking for him, sharper and more painful than he imagines.

A vigorous book, beautiful, the story flows so intensely that you can hardly detach yourself, you would like to read it from beginning to end without ever stopping.
The protagonists arrive to you with their simplicity, they remain impressed, impossible not to love them.
I envied the relationship that Esteban has with his two brothers, Tomas and Jorge, there are always one for each other protect themselves consolano help you.
The steps where the atrocities that Vileda has made to women, men and children are described are shocking and all this is aggravated by the fact that those things really happened in the '70s, therefore after the Second World War and that in the while they were held even the World Cup football ... But where was the world? No one knew anything about all those deaths and disappearances?!

"As if we didn't know that Italians are stupid in the eyes of the world.

These and a thousand other questions assault the reader during the reading, and once the novel is finished, only the bitter remains, because if Nazism in Europe was atrocious what happened in Argentina is no different.
It's a book I recommend to everyone and would propose as a mandatory text to read at school; a novel that makes people know and reflect on a sad truth.

"Most prisoners were still being thrown into unconsciousness, but there are some cases where some victims would have awakened and been thrown into the sea still conscious.

History that intertwines, the present with the past.
I don't hide it, the book has entered my heart and has excited me a lot, so much so that in a couple of steps it has made me move.

I haven't held back my tears!

The only flaw is the errors in the text, I don't know if it's because I read it in eBook but there were some sown here and there ...
The book has won me over since I read that Esteban's cat is called Pepe, like mine!
For all this, I cheque this book: