Under the sky Argaman / Mark Sullivan - a weak recommendation

in #books5 years ago


Under the sky Argaman contains a strong personal story told in weak literature. (Giuse) Pinot Lela is a 17-year-old boy from Milan in late 1943, when northern Italy is crushed by the Allies, General Leers is a German representative in Italy, one who boasts that he sits to Hitler's left and does not receive orders from the Armaments Minister Albert Speer, According to him something will be spoken.

Pino is ordered by his father, and especially his mother, to travel to Casa Alpina, where he spends every summer vacation, refusing to believe that he is no longer a child, but his mother thinks his departure from Milan will be good for him. Aged 15. Father Ree accepts him with joy and begins to train him in the mountains in the early morning, on increasingly difficult routes, and at first Pino does not understand the reason for this training, but his confidence in Avra ​​is great until the reason is revealed. To neutral Switzerland.

For a few months, Pinot deals with smuggling until his return to Milan, when he was almost 18 years old. In Milan, his family forces him to enlist for the reason that he will serve in Milan and will not risk being a fighter or partisan. From here to there, Pino becomes General Lyers' personal driver when he speaks three languages: Italian, English and French. For Liars he translates from Italian to French and due to knowledge in driving he is also used as a driver and spy for Allies.

In between, he meets the 24-year-old Anna, whom he met the previous year and suggested that she go to a movie. Of course she had no intention of going with a younger girl to the movie, but fate was meeting them again and this time she was serving Dolly, the general's mistress. There was a great love between Pinot and Anna.

All that Pinot's eyes see in the many trips that the general conducts to his uncle and from there on.

The year 1945 begins and it is clear that the defeat of German is clear, although the war is not waning. We evacuated to the horrors, some with a personal touch.

It is precisely the end of the story, when the author Mark Sullivan brings us back to the real characters and what has happened with them since the end of the war is enlightening and fascinating.

Sullivan tries to write a book suitable for the script and the Americans in short chapters. It is clearly visible. Even if the book leaves a series, it is clear where there will be a break for commercials. It would not have bothered if the book had not been written in American and the attitude toward the subject of writing and Italy was not so condescending.

What went through Finno and Italy justifies a better writer and a more tighter plot than Sullivan's. If you do not mind reading a script in America, you'll probably enjoy it.

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