Ground Zero, Núria Busquet

FdE Press are extremely pleased to announce that we will be publishing Núria Busquet's remarkably eloquent, heartfelt novel, Ground Zero in 2024. Against the backdrop of the destruction of the Twin Towers in the terrorist attacks in New York on the 11th of September 2001, Ground Zero tells the personal and emotional collapse of Jane, a woman living and working in the city. Reflecting the physical destruction wrought on the city, Ground Zero is a description of personal 'rubble', from its origin to the beginning of the demolition, in orderly snapshots and fictional battles with the limiting power of the mind. A process of artistic mourning experienced from the cold description of the tragedy and the subsequent chaos it ignites. A time of acceptance, of a sudden crack at the edge of the abyss. It is an absorbing story, served with forceful, physical writing. Núria Busquet presents us with both a material and spiritual mourning, a centrifugal text that fuses personal and universal history.

People say…

'The author paints a portrait of our ability to overcome, of everything that pushes us to get up and leave our own personal ground zero, the price we pay and the wrong choices, but also the firmness that makes it safe for us to walk. All this is interspersed with images, photographs and works of art, all of which have some kind of collapse, tension and distension, solidity and volatility in common. Ground Zero is a lively, monumental novel, written soberly but delicately at the same time. As I closed this book I had the feeling that I had just read an important work.' - Manel Haro, Llegir.cat

'In her second novel, Ground Zero (LaBreu Edicions), Núria Busquets delves into one of the most shocking and transcendent events in the history of humanity, the attack on the Twin Towers of 9/11 as she describes the personal collapse of Jane, a recently single Manhattan resident. Grief and creation, tragedy and chaos, all in a work that picks you up and shakes you down from the first word to the last.' - Esteve Plantada, Eltemps.cat