Sketching God's Lost Shadows

In the vein of Gordon Burn, this novel fuses documentary precision with hallucinatory dread to dissect the Carnaval des Ombres killing. When a photographer is ritualistically slain by a masked crowd, his father’s civil suit becomes an excavation of the sacred and profane. Through depositions, archival fragments, and the silent biographies of ordinary men who became a mob, the narrative traces the contours of a collective darkness—each criminal profile an attempt to sketch the shadow left where the divine once stood, revealing how easily a festival can awaken a congregation of demons.