WRITING CLASS - LIDIA GISELLE CEDEO TEJADA

PANDORA IN THE CONGO This book is the Albert Sanchez Piol's second work, after the great success that supposed La piel fria (The cold skin), published in 2002. I ignore completely if the cold skin is a good book or not, since I have not read it, though the opinion of the critique and the readers it makes suppose it. Pandora in the Congo is kind of a story inside another story. The author tells us how a writer interviews and writes a book about the life of a third person: a prisoner accused of killing in cold blood two of his accompanists on an expedition looking for gold in the Congo. The form in which it is narrated is very curious and is one of the things that I have liked a lot, since Thomas Thompson (main character) is alternating what the prisoner tells him with his own life, which is not easy either. A story full of imagination, alternating between reality and science fiction, a magnificent form which leaves the reader in uncertainty until the end. Nothing is as it seems. From the first to the last page of the book, the author tries to create something different and he gets it. A touch of humor continuous and constant twists on the same story is what makes this book not boring but a novel that could be read quickly, with a half-smile on your face and the tension of watching a movie of Indiana Jones live. The story does not stop being a sort of horror film from those in which the murderer turns out to be who you least expect; with final surprise the reader keeps in suspense until the last second. Pandora in the Congo plays with the curiosity of the reader, intensifies it, impresses it and excites it. What do you expect? Read Pandora in the Congo. And try not to forget something essential that the book's narrator insists on reminder: a novel does not end until the last page. "Pandora in the Congo a text that captures the reader on each page, it is impossible to stop."