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Yakov Blumkin claimed to have had nine lives. Born to a poor Jewish family and orphaned as a child, he was a Socialist Revolutionary, a terrorist, the assassin of the German ambassador Wilhelm von Mirbach, a poet close to the avant-garde, a member of Cheka, a military strategist, a secret agent, and Leon Trotsky’s secretary. Executed in 1929 on Stalin’s orders at the age of only twenty-nine, he has continued to inspire a powerful curiosity, and wild rumors and falsehoods about his extraordinary life abound today.

Si el cuerpo es la frontera entre nosotros y el mundo, ¿cómo puede el cuerpo defendernos del horror? ¿Cuánto dolor puede soportar un hombre? ¿Puede el amor salvar a quien carece de esperanza? Éstas son algunas de las cuestiones implícitas en La ofensa, la historia de Kurt Crüwell, un joven sastre alemán a quien el estallido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial empujará a vivir una experiencia tan radical como insólita.