A. Gust

Rafael works in a secret archive where every drawer holds the biography of someone who could have been born, but never was. When he opens the file of Elisa Marchand, a pianist who never existed, she begins to speak to him. All she wants is one day of life. To feel the sun. Bite an apple. Exist. But Elisa is not alone. Millions wait in line - and some are willing to take living bodies instead of waiting any longer.
To stop them, Rafael proposes an impossible deal. But at the back of the archive, a sealed drawer holds something far older. Something that is also beginning to listen. A metaphysical horror novel about loneliness, memory, and what it truly means to exist.