EDEBÉ Young Adult Literature Award 2023: Territorio desconocido by Luis Leante

Everything that happened during that year at the institute lit the fuse that would blow up a few lives.

Isa, Diego and Tomás, formerly inseparable friends since childhood, have been growing apart since Isa and Diego started dating, and the good-natured Tomás is becoming more and more aggressive since an incident that no one knows about. Then, an apparently arson fire in a town warehouse along with the discovery of human remains triggers an investigation that will uncover a plot much more complex than anyone would suspect...

A story with overtones of "true crime" and with a narrative structure that helps to further tighten the intrigue based on snippets of information very well dosed in the voices of the young people and adults involved in the events. A novel that reveals the cowardice of those who look the other way; the ignorance of parents about what their children do; the excessive importance that society and particularly young people give to physical appearance and popularity, in addition to the lights and shadows, the mysteries and secrets that surround crime.

At the center of it all and beyond the harassment: public humiliation by clueless young people and the victim's powerful feeling of thirst for revenge that causes the mind to collapse into unknown territory.