HAY HISTORIAS QUE NOS CUENTAN, EN LAS QUE CREEMOS, EN LAS QUE NO CREEMOS Y EN LAS QUE NO QUEREMOS CREER. UNA NOVELA DE VIAJE Y DE INICIACIÓN. Hay un principio básico muy útil en el mar y en la guerra: prepararlo todo según la hipótesis más probable, pero adoptar las medidas de seguridad según la hipótesis más peligrosa. Cal Gadea, un chico de dieciséis años criado por sus abuelos y fascinado por los videojuegos, encuentra al hombre al que lleva tiempo buscando: Asier Lerrant, el padre que nunca conoció. Lo ha localizado en un puerto del Mediterráneo siguiendo unas vagas pistas y una fotografía antigua, movido por una pregunta que lo atormenta desde niño: por qué ese hombre abandonó a su madre y lo dejó también a él fuera de su historia. A bordo de un velero que trafica con arte robado, padre e hijo emprenden un viaje en el que la búsqueda íntima de Cal se cruza con un enigma histórico y una trama de carácter policíaco. Lerrant, hombre hermético, áspero y difícil de descifrar, enseñará al chico a navegar, a anticiparse al peligro y a comprender que, en un barco como en la vida, ciertas reglas son una forma de supervivencia. Novela de aventura e iniciación, La hipótesis más peligrosa es también una asombrosa mirada sobre el Mediterráneo como memoria viva de la Historia: un mar donde todavía resuena el eco de batallas, exilios, piratas, imperios desaparecidos, leyendas, dioses antiguos, libros clásicos y derrotas humanas.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION THERE ARE STORIES WE'RE TOLD. STORIES WE BELIEVE. STORIES WE DON'T BELIEVE. AND STORIES WE WISH WEREN'T TRUE. A COMING-OF-AGE ADVENTURE NOVEL.
There is one basic principle that proves invaluable at sea and in war: prepare for the most likely scenario, but take precautions for the most dangerous one. Sixteen-year-old Cal Gadea, raised by his grandparents and obsessed with video games, finally tracks down the man he has spent years searching for: Asier Lerrant, the father he never knew. Following little more than a faded photograph and a handful of vague clues, Cal finds him in a Mediterranean port, driven by the question that has haunted him since childhood: Why did this man abandon his mother--and leave him out of his own story? Aboard a sailboat involved in the trafficking of stolen art, father and son embark on a journey where Cal's deeply personal search becomes entangled with a historical mystery and a gripping crime plot. Lerrant--a guarded, abrasive man who is difficult to read--teaches the boy how to sail, how to anticipate danger, and how to understand that, on a boat as in life, certain rules are essential for survival. An adventure and coming-of-age novel, The Most Dangerous Hypothesis is also a captivating portrait of the Mediterranean as a living repository of history--a sea where the echoes of battles, exile, pirates, vanished empires, ancient gods, legendary tales, classical literature, and human tragedies still linger.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION THERE ARE STORIES WE'RE TOLD. STORIES WE BELIEVE. STORIES WE DON'T BELIEVE. AND STORIES WE WISH WEREN'T TRUE. A COMING-OF-AGE ADVENTURE NOVEL.
There is one basic principle that proves invaluable at sea and in war: prepare for the most likely scenario, but take precautions for the most dangerous one. Sixteen-year-old Cal Gadea, raised by his grandparents and obsessed with video games, finally tracks down the man he has spent years searching for: Asier Lerrant, the father he never knew. Following little more than a faded photograph and a handful of vague clues, Cal finds him in a Mediterranean port, driven by the question that has haunted him since childhood: Why did this man abandon his mother--and leave him out of his own story? Aboard a sailboat involved in the trafficking of stolen art, father and son embark on a journey where Cal's deeply personal search becomes entangled with a historical mystery and a gripping crime plot. Lerrant--a guarded, abrasive man who is difficult to read--teaches the boy how to sail, how to anticipate danger, and how to understand that, on a boat as in life, certain rules are essential for survival. An adventure and coming-of-age novel, The Most Dangerous Hypothesis is also a captivating portrait of the Mediterranean as a living repository of history--a sea where the echoes of battles, exile, pirates, vanished empires, ancient gods, legendary tales, classical literature, and human tragedies still linger.