Javier Ruescas's most personal novel and a cry of outrage against homophobia. Based on true events.
Starting from an incident he experienced with his partner, Javier Ruescas builds a compulsively readable novel that multiplies the voices around an assault and its consequences. Lo que pasó not only portrays the helplessness, anger, and vulnerability in the face of violence that breaks into everyday life, but also points out the mechanisms that sustain it, from fear and guilt to social silence. And, above all, it is a story of love, resistance, and overcoming.
“With enviable narrative control and great craft, Javier Ruescas turns a real assault, a slap, into a shockwave. It takes great courage to confront systemic violence and a very skilled writer to turn it into the best literature.” Alana S. Portero
“A brave story that we should all read. Javier Ruescas writes truths with a pen that captivates us.” Elísabet Benavent
“A blow of reality, deeply and brilliantly narrated, and a call to the most powerful feeling there is: empathy.” Daniel Valero (@Tigrilloig)
