This novel was published in 2015, where Amaniti imagines life in the year 2020 after the epidemic that hits the earth. Red fever - as he calls it - targets adults and excludes youngsters who live a wasted childhood in a dystopian world where devastation is rampant, dangers are rampant, and insecurity is rampant. However, hope requires that the heroine, Anna, protect her brother and accompany him to a place where she hopes that the adults have survived and were able to produce the vaccine.
Amaniti condenses many details that make up his fictional vision and his narrative prowess, as he is the one who studied biology, and bestows heroic roles in most of his novels on the character of the child. puberty and the virus kills them. They must arm themselves with hope and the love of life, whatever the circumstances, because living life is the duty of beings. And this is what Amaniti conveys in the folds of the novel by saying: “Life is not for us, life passes through us.”
