Where the desire for freedom can lead!

Salamander / Jean Christophe Rufin
This short story is fictionalized the relationship of a news item that sest spent in Recife in northeastern Brazil.
Catherine wants to flee lesclavage our Western society and the opportunity offered him to go to Brazil, a country twirling, colorful, sensual and violent.
She will get to know the beautiful Gil, thirty years younger it is, that will ignite his heart and his life. She realizes "that it was something breathtaking in this evolution. "
Blindly and obstinately it darkens, it sengouffre in this love and sy up sinks destruction, decay and unreason.
What seemed a paradise will look like hell. Catherine Lamour will burn, laliéner, reducing it to lesclavage, but ultimately appears quune form of accomplishment and liberation comes after the tragedy.
At the end, she realizes "that he still has love, pure love, one that offers lon and nattend nothing. "
She sees "in his life track of both slavery. The first, she washed spent in office sad. The second cétait his violent passion for Gil. In both cases, his freedom, his future, his tranquility had been wiped Freedom, she thought, this is the choice of what will enslave us. "
We will attend throughout the narrative clash of two worlds, Mon pledged poor other. Lon and discovers with horror that humiliation joined to give than to receive.
The episode of the carnival, the "great annual match the party to fight poverty" is a way "that gives the feeling that Catherine falls into a kind of madness.
What it is interesting to note, this is that the reader is irritated by this gradual decay comes when one knows from where Catherine, bourgeois that loneliness has invaded after a painful separation and sought a change of scenery under the sun of the tropics. From the start felt Sopen trap and we guess that this character Gil what love madly nest quignominie. Lattitude blind Catherine bother: you want to shout: "Flee, flee as far as you can"
In conclusion, a novel that reads quickly and quite well written. It however natteint the level of "Brazil Red", but we sennuie at no point in this thriller.