curly letters in your thinking, willing to never leave. That letter ever written. Why?: Paulo died, Monica disappeared and life without them is sour crude, empty. Suddenly a journalistic trip dog ears, in Ayacucho, Peru, will print faster than your hollow life.
eyes and pen of the journalist, focusing on poverty, terrorism, mass graves, human rights violations, are subjects of reports, while a photographer, fat, cynical, death without flinching captures , Jasmine, a pregnant girl, looking to sleep with a journalist, after all, your child is the result of rape by a soldier: "Obviously I like to collect love without hope, but that's not what I need right now," says young.
Paulo, epileptic son of the journalist, travels to the deaths of four years of age, an event that transformed the marriage relationship in the worst of the silences.
Interweaving past and present, after the breakup of his marriage, on the day that part Oreja de Perro, Monica leaves a farewell letter in his suitcase. He has the slogan of answer, however, place the wraps, upsets. Corruption of agricultural assistance program in the eighties, it brutalizes: what corruption, what a way to cheat farmers. Where is the truth, to find reconciliation of a country crushed by impunity.
Worst Dog Ear is the silence, forgetfulness and Iván Thays, handles it masterfully:
"Definitely, I can not forget. Me not. I get it. Can I get ?. "
And the memory that never forgets: beating, thirsty, restless, wet memories, scrubs, the flash and never gets dry. The slip with Jasmine, the departure of Monica, the guilt of the dead child: "I know there are lives whose deaths they park at a point between two pages, like flowers dried in a book, but to Paul, my son did not. It was I who I was locked in his death. "
" Some lives are from wave to wave, limited to the same sea, circling around the same side always, ending up beached in the sand like depleted whale , tired of life "
" Other lives are staggered from one sea to another, each with a different depth, indoor climate, his chart, his sea monsters, their animals, their different resorts, its other sea smell.
Perhaps the seas submerged journalist and Monica, were not removed to be shipwrecked on their own destiny, solitude in the company.
Iván Thays leaves no rest to the reader, like a rough sea, endless, shining, we are immersed in Peruvian narrative, full of beauty: "Who would say, the explanation of life in a an electrical manual: When a light is turned off, a light flashes in another world. Yes Someone starts to live while we are in the dark, waiting for our turn to be enlightened. "
Book: A place called Dog Ear
Author: Iván Thays
Editorial: Anagram
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