In a revision of the old myth of the aviator writer, great authors are represented as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry o James salter, among others. The muses of the heights continue today inspiring new storytellers like himself Francis Narla, an air commander by profession and consolidated writer who crosses different genres like different skies he has seen at the controls of airplanes.
In historical fiction, Narla places us in intense plots, generally more prone to the development of our own arguments than to historiographic dissertations (come on, what has been fiction). In this type of novels by the author we enjoy those wonderfully documented intrahistories. Plots composed from the best setting where we remain spellbound with disturbing events, between mystery and adventure.
In other fortunes, in other genres, Narla also moves with ease, with the conviction that someone has something to tell and knows how to tell it. Mystery novels with evocations of that small country where we all know our first myths and legends. But also very distant, exotic and captivating stories. A pen that always surprises.
Top 3 recommended novels by Francisco Narla
Where the hills howl
Beyond the typical arguments of historical novels, finding or knowing how to equip an interesting plot is a matter of looking at historical details, in rescuing anecdotes, in more local events, in studying less well-known characters.
From these aspects, an argument can be built with a trace of the intrahistoric that ends up penetrating all types of readers. Because we are told something different and therefore we are transmitted a new and closer vision of remote events in our world.A group of legionaries faithful to Julius Caesar pose as alimañeros and offer themselves to a tribe of the ancient Galicia to finish with the wolves that are depleting their livestock. They want to get hold of
their favor and that they reveal the location of the mythical gold mines. From these veins, the master of Rome will extract the precious metal with which he will submit to the Senate. But when killing a pregnant wolf, the last surviving male, a cunning, old and huge wolf, will chase them on his journey to Rome to exact his revenge and truncate the secret plans of Julius Caesar. A wonderful historical novel full of adventure. and tension over the ancestral struggle between man and nature.
Ronin
If there is a writer who has managed to make the ancient world of Japan a space for the bestseller, that is David B Gil. But in the case of Francisco Narla, it is surprising that ease for the irruption between changing scenarios where he naturalizes his plots with the same intensity, energy and reading passion in the last instance.
So, regardless of that love of each one for the culture of one country or another, it is always enriching and above all of full enjoyment, approaching novels like this one that seem to lead us to that other side of the world where our days begin each new sun. Year of the Lord 1600, Japan boils in an eternal civil war. The feudal lords alternate alliances and betrayals in a game of strategy in which each one of them tries to take over the absolute government of the land of the gods.
Fushimi's fortress will not withstand the siege and the samurai Saigō Hayabusa is ready to split his belly without a wince, without complaint. However, the mission that his lord has reserved for him will require a sacrifice much greater than death.The Spanish crown is experiencing a moment of maximum territorial expansion, but Felipe III, a weak and hedonistic king, has left the court in the hands of the Duke of Lerma , who between corruption and nepotism is impoverishing the country and cracking the imperial foundations. Dámaso Hernández de Castro, hardened in the Flanders campaigns, prepares to leave for the East Indies and put himself at the service of the judge of the Audiencia of Manila.
He has to make up for his insufficient lineage with merits if he wants to aspire to the hand of his beloved, La Menina Constanza de Accioli. He soon discovers that someone has disguised what is actually a trap as opportunity. Fate will weave its webs and a circumstantial encounter will forever unite the lives of Saigō and Damaso.
iron
The great myths of history are built from a component of mystery that ends up seasoning the character of the day as something different, surely always something better than ourselves, raised from respect to his principles and passions, a hero forged to death , if necessary.
They called him Fierro. And it was a lie. The truth was his past and the past, a conviction that he preferred to forget. He had nothing, not even a future. That is why he lived on the border, an uncertain piece of land forgotten by all, a cursed place where Moors and Christians sowed death at will. His only consolation were the beehives. She, lost in that bitter past, always liked honey. Now that past rides back to him; with the sword at his belt, ready to torment him. One more time. And when his former comrade-in-arms finds him, he knows he has no escape.
The war crosses his path again. The greatest battle ever told is being prepared and he will mark the route. He will do it for one reason only: her. As before, as always, he will be the attacker of the armies of Castile. And your only hope will be in the hands of an enemy ... This is the story of a man; one tired, blasphemous and lonely. A finished man, without hope and, despite everything, a brave man. An attacker on the border, in times of the Reconquest. You will remember his name.
