Tuareg
Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa
Publicado: 1981 | 252 páginas
Novela Aventuras

Los tuareg constituyen un pueblo altivo cuyo código moral difiere del de los árabes. Auténticos hijos del desierto, los tuareg no tienen rival en cuanto a sobrevivir en las condiciones más adversas. El noble «inmouchar» Gacel Sayah, protagonista de esta novela, es amo absoluto de una infinita extensión de desierto. Cierto día llegan al campamento dos fugitivos procedentes del norte, y el «inmouchar», fiel a las multiseculares y sagradas leyes de la hospitalidad, los acoge. Sin embargo, Gacel ignora que esas mismas leyes le arrastrarán a una aventura mortal…

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Let us get the quibbles out of the way. It is a translation and the English suffers, too often the language is stultified and just fails to carry the moment. I had high expectations of being rewarded with insights into the world of the Tuaregs. Yes insights offered, but so often they collapsed into platitudes. Almost a sentimentalisation of a noble nation. Impossible perhaps to capture the magic of desert life in words and convey that to an audience with no connect. Yet that was what the author set out to do and for me failed, not completely, but I was not transported.

Apart from that a readable page turner with an ever evolving plot twisting around and back over itself in a very satisfying manner, until the final ironic conclusion. Heroic yet founded on one so unassuming. Creditability was seriously stretched but I was left with just enough curiosity to turn the next page. So it worked.

Put down the book disappointed, not a reading journey I would choose to make and too little to take away for the time devoted to it. Liked this cover! ( )