The new novel by the author of the world-famous bestsellers The Man Who Wanted to Be Happy and The Day I Learned to Live will surprise its readers this time:
Imagine living in a world where power and ruling elites, in the name of the common good and "for your good", are constantly shrinking your already truncated space of freedom. They use sophisticated manipulation techniques to get you to behave as they need; from time to time they purposefully instill fear in you in order to control you more easily; they can track your every move, your every step, to keep you fully under control; they instill in you that they know better than you how to live and what to think. And when you stop liking all this and you finally understand that they have already prepared you
for all freedom of thought, and you start to resist, defend, protest and expose the mechanisms and tools of power they use, they will label you as an outcast, a supporter of reprehensible views, a supporter of conspiracy theories, or perhaps a spreader of "fake news"...
In such a world lives the protagonist of the novel called Awakening, with which its author this time boldly deviated from the line of stories that we are used to. Laurent Gounelle, in his latest work, which he wrote at the height of the covid-19 pandemic, does not tell a positively tuned story, but brings a chilling parable of the current reality - our reality. The image of a nightmare from which we should finally wake up.