It is curious that the person who best immerses us in fascinating scenarios in the history of Japan is David B Gil. Great current Japanese writers like Murakami o Kenzaburo Oe they achieve a very special literary miscegenation. And yet it is David who ends up storming the bookstores with historical fictions about that world apart from the Far East.
A world ruled even by a different composition in its division of time. The eras associated with the designs of their emperors are still official. In fact, since May 1, 2019 we are in the It was Reiwa since Akihito's abdication in Naruhito.
If all this seems very far from our reality, it is easy to understand that back in the sixteenth century a trip to Japan could be considered as a transition to another world. And in that magical duality in the same world, David B. Gil takes out narrative oil to present us one more great work in an already anthological saga in the historical genre.
Cual William of Baskerville in "The name of the rivera »Father Martín Ayala addresses a singular case that initially appears as a kind of Shinto counter-crusade that seeks to eradicate the plague of Christian preachers (Catholic priests displaced there appear dead under an undoubted criminal connection even in their sinister theatricality)
Martín Ayala is chosen to travel to the other end of the eastern known world (In 1579, the year in which history begins, in Europe the existence of Oceania was not yet known), and he is the chosen one because a decade ago he was the Martín himself who participated in the evangelizing mission of those lands, with unfortunate memories since, in his mimicry with the culture and the people, he ended up establishing improper relationships that forced his expulsion from the mission.
Now, that knowledge seems essential to unravel the ultimate truth of the rugged issue. His protection is entrusted to Kudo Kenjiro, a young connoisseur of martial arts and aspiring samurai who is suspicious of his mission and the convenience of offering defense to a foreigner.
Between the two, that synergy of found characters is awakened, of opposite poles that little by little are getting closer in the natural magnetism for the different.
Everything that has been happening since then is breaking apart between Martín's stormy past in its moral aspect, on the one hand, and the evolution of an investigation that, in the middle of a country convalescing from recent war episodes between feudal lords and the army, points to close ties with a will of ambition and power that can change history.
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