Asesinato en el Hostal Oriental

Aurora must make a report on the Middle East, which will also allow her to delve into the double life of her father. Years have passed, and now the teenager from The Echo of Words is dedicated to journalism. The young woman is still weighed down by the tragic accident that kept her in a coma for months, her first trip to the East with her father, after her her inexplicable absences and, finally, her strange death in a hostel in Madrid. Murder in the Oriental Hostel is an exciting and revealing novel, where strategic and economic interests are always in dispute: "People's lives are worth nothing to those who trade with wars," says Adel, the Syrian journalist who provides information to Aurora during her business trip to Damascus. Upon her return, the young woman enters the Hostal Oriental to discover the real reasons for the murder of her father. In her investigations she discovers one clue after another; the struggle for life and dignity take on heroic overtones. And if the law does not fulfill the role entrusted to it, can revenge remedy the injustices that have not been repaired? The novel weaves a fine web between the narrated history and the intrahistory of the anonymous characters. The reference to a great journalist, such as Ryszard Kapúscinski and the Columbia University professor, Edward W. Said, are obligatory, since they made truth their main hallmark. But what role does information play?