revealed with the sons of darkness, Colum McCann made his debut with the law of the river gives us the opportunity to discover his debut a novel metaphors in the flow of river hides and reveals remnants of his autobiography and its roots. Colum McCann, James Joyce, Ireland looks with the eye of the exile. It allows, in the incipit of the novel already, doubt, disorientation and confusion of being a migrant, so that "even more than the river could be a river." It 's the story of a homecoming and a departure at the same time somehow definitive because "it's always nice to go somewhere, but just anywhere, you just know you are leaving again." After trying desperately to her mother in Mexico and the United States, Conor Lyons, the novel's protagonist, returns from his father in Ireland and discovers that it is now only a shadow of a man. Party in turn years before, to "leave Europe with its piles of bones and mangled flesh, the massacre that was decimating both sides," and landed in Mexico, he returned home. The adventurous life of photographer began during the civil war in Spain is now a memory faded and yellowed like the prints of his shots. He lives in a state of prostration, has no other interests except a mysterious giant salmon to whom he dedicates all his days. Through his voice, Conor Lyons would like to know his mother, Juanita, who has tried unsuccessfully for five long years, but his father now seems absorbed the slow passing of its setting. The Law of the River tells the missed encounter, a dialogue that does not exist on which to weigh the past, a widespread existential misery surrounded by bucolic landscapes of Ireland: final call there is something missing in the plot and characters, and it is no coincidence that the share the most intense and lyrical novel are those that rely on the landscape and its description, the search for identity is still undefined. The environmental metaphors apply to the father ("The river jumped. It was a moment of perfect understanding. The sunlight caught on the fly and paint droplets as they raised, and at that moment it became clear that the old and the 'water was only one thing: they had lived his life by pretending to each other, the river and he was once unstoppable, eager for new roads, take and run away impetuous, but now progressing slowly towards an extreme sea, immutable "), for his son, Conor Lyons ("The Dawn left a trail on the streets red, typhoid wave that poured on the morning. I kept walking in the shade of leafy branches, under the sun under the canopy of a universe full of doubt and curiosity, with a telephone cord that kept muttering to myself ") and probably also for the same Colum McCann who had to cross the ocean to discover new, with the sons of darkness, a voice well clearer and more convincing of the Law of the River.
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