Drama, Action aventra and lands of Africa and Mexico, places that Eduardo Sguiglia chose to develop the most shocking chapters of his book.
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corrupt and bloody conflicts bathe decades Third World rivers, making them ruthless snakes carry with real wars in which anything goes. While today, the historical ideological and political friction in their countries were in part behind to locate the smuggling of precious stones in the international market as the main protagonist. Just the path of diamonds in Africa is the scenario that the economist and writer Edward Sguiglia (Rosario, 1952), chose to develop the most shocking episodes of his novel, Ojos Negros.
a fiction that runs in Buenos Aires, Congo, Angola and even Mexico, which ranges from drama, adventure and action, Sguiglia account the vagaries of Miguel, an Argentinean unemployed forty borders with a marriage in ruins after the 2001 crisis in Argentina, he feels his life has called for the course. In the midst of this profound existential trauma mistress of his best friend, the little known "I care for a few thousand dollars to travel to Africa in search the whereabouts of his brother Tony. An offer bleak, but no less disturbing, that will take you to unexplored paths.
land Once in Angola and Congo (countries spend most of the scenes), new characters will bring you to the ruthless world of power and stones. Hired murderers, miners exploited by insurgent groups and cagamillones unscrupulous employers (foreign diamond solitaire carrying in your intestines and then sell on the black market at exorbitant figures.)
Amid the chaos, a woman reunited, at least for now, this man that was before losing its way. But not only Miguel linking to corruption, forced labor in mines or the diamond trade is what sustains the strength of Ojos Negros. So are the images beautifully described landscapes, customs, dialects, fauna, flora and facades of African landscapes, almost like a travel journal.
In his role as narrator, Sguiglia plays with the times and rhythms of speech: if it appears slow reading, an abrupt turn it back up at times dizzying and infuriating. "It was Borges who said, perhaps on the novelistic genre that many pages are generally promise of sheer boredom or routine? Black eyes survives definitely a relaxed introduction to immerse the reader in a story whose pulsations increase as the pages progress. Increasingly violent episodes, murder, intrigue, sex scenes and unexpected occurrences of a police chief mediocre and corrupt, are units strategically orchestrated to achieve a strong plot and ensure a coherent final vehemence sustained throughout the narrative.
If Fordlandia (1997), one of his early novels of fiction, is currently used as study material in the Faculty of Economics, University of Buenos Aires (UBA), would not be unreasonable think Ojos Negros, which unashamedly displays a mosaic of European and African actors who fight for dominance of diamonds on the black market, do the same in the schools of International Relations and Political Science
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