O primeiro livro inglês sobre Madeleine McCann, o segundo de ficção...

Avisaram-me que já deixei de ser o único autor de um livro de ficção sobre o que se passou durante o ano passado na Praia da Luz. O escritor inglês Gordon Burn acabou de publicar o "Born Yesterday", onde traça o retrato de um verão com muitas notícias...

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Num artigo publicado na passada quinta-feira no diário inglês "The Guardian" explicam-nos que "this narrator is obsessed, to the point of sleeplessness, with Gordon Brown's blind eye and Robert Murat's blind eye and Madeleine McCann's distinctive iris and the glassy eye of the soft toy on the cover of his own novel, Fullalove; he can't shake thoughts of the doctors who dined with the McCanns on the night Madeleine went missing and the people who tried to blow up Glasgow airport and the London bar Tiger Tiger. Running round and round his brain is the much forwarded clip on YouTube of a little girl, not so very different in age and looks from Madeleine, sobbing and sobbing because Blair had been replaced with Brown. 'Nooooooo! Where is he? I love Tony Blair!'".

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Numa altura em que a Imprensa inglesa pede desculpas aos McCann e defende a sua inocência, Gordon Burn diz ainda que "the McCanns weren't being used by the press, - unusually, they were using the press for their own admirable ends. At the beginning, I think. And I just think any person who does enter consciousness in that way ... you think things. You perhaps wouldn't write everything you think, but I think you should feel free to speculate".
Apenas digo: "Welcome, Gordon!"