It's still fun to read a thriller from time to time. Admittedly, this is not what is most on this blog but with a little luck, we found more in 2011. In any case, reading "Sansalina" was a very pleasant reading. + + + The back cover + + +
Pablo Zorfi goes wrong. His only daily killings, kidnappings and betrayals. Mexico in the 20s, brothels run at the bottom, away from dust and Pancho Villa mustache. The street child Sansalina is now the master of the city. But he became ill as a rattlesnake. His best friends terrorize. He has only one solution to convince himself that he still has a future: Dolores review. Touching her skin. The young woman breathes freedom. Nobody tells him what to do. She forgot Sansalina, his violence and his men. Dolores also had a childhood dream, for which she has sacrificed everything. She founded a library. The day that dream explodes like a vulgar matchbox, another battle begins.
+ + + + + + My opinion
This is perhaps not the best thriller I read in my life, but like any book of its kind, it reads quickly and well. It embarks easily, and neither saw nor knew we're in another country, Mexico, and another time, years 20. So successful challenge to this book, because we left very quickly carried away by the whirlwind black.
Adventures of Mexican thugs forces, we imagine them with beautiful mustache and a blazing sun above his head. All with an air of tough and looks of gunmen. Well enough to dive into another world that the U.S. thriller. This is not to offend, because it leaves the scope of a film noir atmosphere of the kind just suggest. Found almost a western of the coup with music by Sergio Leone in the background, of course, all the ingredients are there: the Mexican gangsters, small towns and dry sunny delivered into the hands of the gangsters of the era and corner, at the prostitutes tempered character, etc.. It is violent, but not so much by the acts, murders finally being rare, as the mood that permeates this book. It's dark, hopeless and dead ends! One quickly realizes that this will not end in happy endings, but is this really what we expect from this kind of book? Of course not!
Adventures of Mexican thugs forces, we imagine them with beautiful mustache and a blazing sun above his head. All with an air of tough and looks of gunmen. Well enough to dive into another world that the U.S. thriller. This is not to offend, because it leaves the scope of a film noir atmosphere of the kind just suggest. Found almost a western of the coup with music by Sergio Leone in the background, of course, all the ingredients are there: the Mexican gangsters, small towns and dry sunny delivered into the hands of the gangsters of the era and corner, at the prostitutes tempered character, etc.. It is violent, but not so much by the acts, murders finally being rare, as the mood that permeates this book. It's dark, hopeless and dead ends! One quickly realizes that this will not end in happy endings, but is this really what we expect from this kind of book? Of course not!
style Nicolas Jaillet is quite sharp, with a short and punchy phrasing, does ant not lose unnecessary circumlocutions. Yet he manages to give us a more credible atmosphere of black, alternating throughout the book between past and present, and traveling between the youth of these gangsters and their lives and decay present a unique decor: the beginning of Mexico the 20th century.
Finally a nice book, maybe not revolutionary but which benefits from an original setting and treatment of the story well found. A book that will give you the distraction of the scenery, and some dark days for a late night. All that we can expect anything from a thriller!
Finally a nice book, maybe not revolutionary but which benefits from an original setting and treatment of the story well found. A book that will give you the distraction of the scenery, and some dark days for a late night. All that we can expect anything from a thriller!
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+ + + + + + The book
- Paperback: 294 pages
- Publisher: Editions Gallimard (November 18, 2010)
- Collection: Folio Policier
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