Chronicle of a failure foretold

Asmara and lost causes. / JCRufin
This short novel is an interesting chronicle the adventures and hocquemelles encountered by humanitarian organizations in Ethiopia, a country then dormant and delivered to the civil war.
The main character is the narrator. Hilarion, old ethnic Armenian resident is a keen observer and this is her diary book as we frame this story. He nostalgically evokes the Italian colonization and its high historical facts, that there are only architectural remains left to the injuries of time and wars. Shopping in Asmara trafficker of all kinds, usurer at times, Hilarion is a colorful character, rich but disillusioned, curious and informed observer, a real spy with his intelligence network. It has built over time a network of eclectic relations are very helpful to it and he knows how his friends benefited.
Hilarion is no illusion in his possession, both human nature that the usefulness and effectiveness of the "humanitarian", but he plays the game. "The soul is such that you get used to all kinds of injustices when they appear to constitute the very fabric of life. "And further:" We are used here that famine mowing the ranks of men; it is a constant facts of nature. But seen by Europeans, all this seems unbearable. "
Let's say that this novel has a documentary value. Do not look for the big Rufin of "Brazil Red". It is a question, as I said, a way of documentary value reporting. And very informative in a style perfectly controlled as always with Rufin. The beauty of Ethiopian women is omnipresent.
The author does not give in sentimentality, and "hungry" occupy little space in the narrative unlike the "silted" (Europeans settled in the country long occupying the center stage.
Read therefore to know.