By Marianela Puebla "Memoirs of a Survivor" by British writer, 2007 Nobel Prize, Doris Lessing, leads to a chaotic world where anarchy owns the streets and people's survival.
empty buildings, abandoned by its inhabitants who are forced by urban violence and security to leave their belongings in pursuit of preserving life. Bands of teenagers take over the streets to recruit more youth to go looking for a place that gives them the security they crave. For that steal, kill, kill animals and humans living in promiscuity, nothing escapes his rebellion and reason to exist and the situation. All this coming and going paraded before the eyes of the protagonist.
On the other hand, there are those who refuse to leave and begin to take possession of furniture and other products guarded by men with guns, sets up shop in vacant buildings, take them for assault and bring animals and vegetables in order to survive and sell; rather, bartering as a return to old age without electricity, water or basic needs of today's world.
empty and destroyed urban areas as the last had an earthquake for them. The earthquake of youth and children after a world full of violence where the law of the strongest or which is better armed.
In this chaotic environment, the police supply and also gives governments try to ignore this problem, leaving the situation in the hands of mobs of criminals who attack and kill without law, all to survive in their own way.
Our protagonist, is in charge of a 12 year old girl named Emily and her yellow dog Hugo. She (our narrator) constantly avoids the situation and clings to an imaginary world that has, through the walls of his own department. In those moments back in time for Emily, imagines, check your room is like a silent observer, with no presence crossing dimensions and placed in past scenes. A nearly normal and others in which the destruction is the owner of these houses, walls collapsed and that time with her tongue licking voraciously, while nature covers them with her mantle green.
Time passes and the situation worsens, Emily turns 14 and joins the tribe of Gerald, who make it one of his wives. A 22 year old recruiting other young people in front of the building, watched all the time through the eyes of Hugo, the yellow dog Emily and their patrons who plays the role of narrator of this terrible period of chaos. For Emily, Gerald is their leader, is everything and work with him to organize the survival of the group. It helps to time Gerald loses his marching band without him. Gerald then becomes obsessed with reforming children living under the disused underground, hordes of young children with no more than 10 years acting on instinct, without law, without morals, using his cunning and his weapons to attack and destroy as savages.
A novel that makes us reflect. A diary of a survivor with a frightening look to an uncertain future. A retrospective look at the world we live and where we go. Warning that can save us from total destruction in the very near future.
* Memoirs of a Survivor
Author: Doris Lessing
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Mirela Translation First published 2007 Paperback
Barcelona, \u200b\u200bSpain.
223 Pages.
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