A novel as lapidary as a rough diamond.
A trip to Punta Cana, a used car, a medium-format camera, a new kitchen: all of that costs six thousand euros. In this book, that is the sum a court awards to a young woman who fell under the sway of a menacing man.
Writing as a face, Sixmille is the personal account of a reconstruction. During a creative writing workshop, unfamiliar visions suddenly surface—the sense of discovering her own life for the first time. By delving into her story and questioning the people around her, the narrator interrogates her own identity and realizes that a perilous ascent awaits her.
In Spanish, a sixmille, written as one word, designates a mountain rising between 6,000 and 6,999 meters above sea level.
