Matilde Asensi Iberian is a very good writer who has made his adventure novel ace in the hole. He has on his side and a write scorrevolissima simple, straightforward but also very evocative. It is not a lens that is lost in descriptions of environments, situations and moods, she writes about the project, share alternating dialogues in pure narrative action. It 's a talented writer who has certainly outdone herself in writing the Last Cato, so far his best best seller.
Matilde Asensi is also one that does not care much for consistency and realism of the stories he tells, mostly trying to make things happen (mostly impossible) of pure fun for the reader. A reader pop (I first) love his style because it is naive and without ulterior motives, not moralizing and does not take itself seriously. The stories told by Asensi involve you until you wear the clothes of his heroes and heroines of his patience and if everything is very similar to a transposition of a narrative film Indiana Jones.
All this preamble to say that the great Asensi wrote so much beautiful stuff, but here it is stumbled badly, a great banana peel on his respectable career. The novel is short, thank you very much for this because the pace is not the most intense. I think that his will was that of wanting to revive centuries later, the kind popular in Spain in the 600/700, which is the picaresque novel of which he is mirabile esempio il Lazarillo de Tormes (grazie al quale stavo per essere sbattuta fuori all’esame di letteratura spagnola, perciò da me “amatissimo”). La protagonista è Catalina, giovane spagnola appartenente ad una nobile famiglia decaduta e promessa sposa ad un ricco e non del tutto normale uomo, che abita nei territori della Terra Ferma, ossia il Nuovo Mondo. La sua nave viene attaccata dai pirati e lei si getta in mare per mettersi in salvo. Arriva in un’isola desera e lì dopo qualche tempo viene stanata dall’anziano capitano della nave Chacona che conosciuta la sua storia decide di farla travestire da uomo e trasformarla in suo figlio adottivo. Da qui poi inizia tutta la storia che è più che altro incentrata on stories of smuggling and lost honor.
So if the first 20 pages make you enjoy the next 100 you stunned with a string of English names and nicknames, with a plot worthy of a soap opera 80 years and skinny and very unrealistic dialogue (a bit 'as dialogues between Don Rodrigo and the good piece in The Betrothed rebuilt by Trio Solenghi, Marchesini and Lopez).
So let's say for the moment that this book wins the last place on the novels written by Asensi.
Rating: 6
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