John Delacourt’s thriller novel Butterfly explores the ideas of memory and revenge in the digital age GlobeArts
Is the past still past if it exists on video? In a culture obsessed with recording itself, skeletons that once disappeared into the closet can re-emerge decades later to bring anyone’s mistakes into the hard light of judgment. The wrong snippet of footage, seen by the wrong person, can come to define a life.
This murder plot is a slick vehicle for a deeper mystery. Crucially, this one leaves no room for doubt. Video footage has surfaced, placing Dejan and one of Rebane’s hangers-on, Petar Stepanovic, at the scene of a massacre in the Bosnian town of Foca – Natasa’s hometown. In July, 1992, Serbian forces carried out a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing and mass rape there.
If the telling of the story sometimes feels a bit old-fashioned, it’s partly in the absence of the ubiquitous tools of modern tech. The viral effect enabled by smartphones and massive social networks don’t factor into, which is set in the years before social media exploded.
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