The puppeteer Dingo's carriage hits a young child while passing through the village of Artemilla, the miserable village from which he fled years ago to join a troupe of acrobats, aspiring to make his entire life a continuous festival. He resorts to his old friend, Juan Medinao, to help him in this predicament, but his contact with the village master will finally awaken the details of the painful past, and with them he will begin a relentless journey through memory, recalling his relationship with his father, his mother’s suicide, and the mixture of hatred and love that he felt towards his brother. Stepbrother.
In this small-sized novel, but with a big impact, Anna Maria Matute is able to delve into the depths of her characters, searching for the deep scars that childhood leaves in their souls, revealing with keen insight and high sensitivity the most complex and profound human feelings, in a dense narrative that makes room for emotional feelings. Inferiority, fear, isolation, and hatred can tell their story too.
"A crisis of honor":
A cry in the face of the violation of childhood... and a novel that discusses a social issue that has been ignored... that eats away at the bones of children in many homes... until it kills their innocent souls while they are still in the cradle...
“Crisis of Honor” addresses the issue of physical abuse and rape of children. It lifts the veil from the faces of the perpetrators, who are often the closest people to the abused children. It sheds light on the distorted family relationships that cut off the lines of communication between parents and children. It further complicates the problem.
It also addresses the harassment that girls are exposed to in any society, and the impact of physical harassment on her life, her future, and her social relationships.
It is a novel written in the language of the era... painful... the sound of moaning emanates from between its lines... suspenseful until the last line... it brings together bouquets of love, hate, betrayal, and various psychological conflicts... and it tells a story from every line... as you feel at a certain moment as if you know.” "Laila"... and you wish you could go back in time to get to know "Hamdan"... and "Jihad"'s madness reminds you of one of your friends... and the calmness of "Saif" provoking your forty-year-old relative.. and at some point you would like to pounce on "Akram"... or participate." “Celine” is one of her women’s morning stories... She also wishes she could read psychology encyclopedias so she could explain the character of “Abu Masoud”..
“A Crisis of Honor”... a message of awareness for every reader to open his eyes well to protect his children after “Obaida” left in the blink of an eye.. and a warning to every father and mother to reconsider their calculations again.. and not to give trust to anyone with regard to their children.. they are a trust that cannot be It can be recovered easily after being lost or neglected..!!
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