Original language: English Year: 2011
Rating: is (very) good
"Belfond" is the name of a people, the great protagonist of this novel Jenn Diaz Catalan author, whose inhabitants live under the guardianship, and the yoke of a master-omnipotent and omnipresent, a love which is nothing but the true god of Belfond.
The novel is composed of twenty chapters, as fragments of a broken mirror, tell the individual stories of the inhabitants of Belfond at the same time creating a strong image and compact village life. The different characters are intertwined to a greater or lesser extent in the different stories, and end meet in the final chapter or story. In Belfond include everything from forbidden love or undeclared, small and ridiculous vengeance and terrible abuses to works of the most curious.
Jenn Diaz's style is quick, easy care and without falling into simplicity; vertebra throughout the novel despite the different points of view from which the story is told. Most notable, in my opinion, is the author's razor sharp intuition: it is impossible for the reader is not reflected on, and even identified with, many of the details that give life to the characters.
Still, it strikes me that while the novel starts with overwhelming force, it loses a bit of bellows as he goes. Maybe it's because the narrative structure-the sum of individual stories-may end up getting a bit repetitive.
Overall, as indicated in the assessment, the novel is very, very well. From this blog, I encourage you to keep track of this writer 22 years. Yes, I have kept an ace up its sleeve: it is very young and Belfond is his first novel. And that just means he still has many good stories to tell.
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