Synopsis

Anger, blindness, catastrophe. The violence of man and the wrath of nature. From the first stroke of the third millennium to the painful epilogue of the columns of refugees marching through the dust, a tumultuous web of events—a scientific and uncontrollable disorder—shatters the illusion of peace in the West and heralds its dissolution. Paris is caught in the ring of flames and rage of the banlieues. London explodes four times in one July day. New Orleans is a ghost of water after the great hurricane. The volcanoes, silent for decades, rise again, darkening the sky. A black president announces the death of the man who attacked the towers. Blood flows in Tunis, Cairo, Benghazi. The red-haired boy kills inside a cinema. The immense ship tilts to one side for its final bow. The man dressed as a policeman, on the island, shoots mercilessly. "The Fall" recounts the upheavals that marked the first decade of the new century through a powerful narrative, inspired by the Torah and the Book of Revelation and modeled on Renaissance painting cycles. A relentless and compelling novel, in which the flow of history permeates the fate of individuals, and each character condemns the others to pay the price of their choices, to atone for their punishment, or to find redemption.