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How am I in mode? Logan two weeks and wolves are always in fashionIt was time to dedicate an article to them. There are few other animals fascinating and so literary. They are in hundreds of stories and stories in all cultures and, with great injustice, they are one of the personifications of evil and terror par excellence. Actually, They are noble, faithful to theirs for life and beautiful.
Today I rescue 5 titles of my library with its figure, concept or essence as protagonists. The only one who is really a main character as an animal is the Galician wolf from Where the hills howlby Francisco Narla. But we have a classic, two black titles and a fantastic one.
Steppe wolf - Herman Hesse
Posted in 1927, this novel is one of the most famous by the Swiss-German writer Hermann Hesse. I read it in the adolescence, Like Siddhartha. So you read everything because you are discovering genres and titles of reference. And Hesse has a lot of material for that circumstance.
Su Harry haller, that figured steppe wolf, is a character melancholic, intellectual, enigmatic, taciturn and depressive. In his dialogue with the narrator, he shows us his indifference towards the society around him. Always with him philosophical tone that characterizes Hesse, possibly one of those titles that can only be read at a certain age.
Darker than you think - Jack Williamson
Also read in adolescence, I remember it fondly because it impacted me. And I have it in rereadings. It will be an effort because it is fantasy genre -Nothing mine-, but I will do it more than anything for that residue that he left me.
Noval by the American writer Jack Williamson (1908-2006), was published in Fantasy press in 1948. He tells us about the discovery they made on an ethnological expedition in Mongolia, led by Professor Mondrick, when they found that there is a breed capable of transforming into animals, more specifically in wolves. Mondrick will not return from there and his wife and three of his disciples continue their work, but something kills them. On the other hand, it is journalist Will barbee, who knows what it can be about and also what he himself may have to do with it.
Wolf time - Martin Cruz Smith
We get into black with this fifth title in the series of eight novels of the American Martin Cruz Smith on his character, Russian commissioner Arkady Renko, who has an article all to himself. And very well chosen that title for a new case that will lead Renko to investigate until Chernobyl.
Those who know Renko, will already know about his particular nature so seemingly apathetic and melancholic, so Russian and so forceful at the same time. Here you will find yourself involved in a particularly enigmatic case in a landscape with such a ghostly trail and where the dangers that most frighten human beings lurk. Excellent like the rest of the entire series, which I usually recommend.
Wolves - Donato Carrisi
El European publishing phenomenon of a few years ago, this thriller by Italian Donato Carrisi is very addictive. In a way, he reinvented the genre with a original proposal that made him worthy of that success. Captivating characters and plot, and most of all, great twists that give you more of a surprise.
The criminologist Goran gavila and the homicide team face a disturbing case. The right arms corresponding to five missing girls, but the arms are 6. When they find the five corpses later, they believe that the sixth is still alive. The team will join mila vasquez, researcher specialized in missing people. But every time they think they are getting close to the culprit, they are actually following the plan of a ruthless and brilliant mind.
Where the hills howl - Francisco Narla
Released last year, it is the last historical novel of the successful Galician writer Francisco Narla. Set in Roman times, this one does have as its protagonist a old, huge and very cunning wolf, what will be taken revenge for the death of his companion at the hands of a group of legionaries.
The journey after them to Rome and even Julius Caesar himself is one of those you don't want to end. At the same time, you read it in one breath. And you always take the side of that wounded and fearsome wolf who will not stop until that revenge is exacted. Whatever it takes. Maybe the best historical novel of the past year for me, with the best setting and plot.