Description
The African Macondo It is the narrative of a wonderful defeat. A book that mixes the fun madness of the south of this continent with hard and, sometimes, cruel. It is the adventures of an inhabitant, not from a traveler, who after living two years in South Africa and having traveled through various African countries, settles in a hotel located in a lost village in the Indian Ocean., a Mozambique. Thence, also through the getaways he makes to surrounding countries, incredible stories happen, narrated with frankness and without complexes in the daily coexistence with that Africa far from paternalisms and conventionalisms to use. A man who dreams of the paths swallowed by the jungle of a national park and then opens them; the chilling testimony of three girl soldiers; a fun golf course in Soweto; an abandoned zoo; the perfect Nambian desert and its mud tribes; the thunder of the unchanging decisions of Victoria Falls; acceptance of death; love; the friendship or cruel sadness of the sand eaters, beginning and end of this story. Everything fits in this linear and customary story, sentimental and stark, of a reality that goes unnoticed by the occasional visitor. «I wanted to tell about Africa without holding anything back, "just as I chaotically lived it", says Brandoli. «That defeat led its author to know the African soul and, largely, to know yourself a little more", says the writer Javier Reverte in the prologue of The African Macondo, a work without prejudices that aims, certainly, That when the reader finishes it, they take a plane and immerse themselves as soon as possible in that fabulous land called Africa..
