Hope's dream

     I have received news of Hope

     Like her name, Hope has always had the hope of leading a different life and in one way or another she has achieved it. Like you Fran or me. Like any. Only in the case of my sister much more accentuated. A life that runs parallel to what she actually lives.

The times of the planetary tribes

A magnificent painting by Rubens, Cain killing Abel (detail) appears on the cover of the book. Another allusion to confrontation and violence between brothers.

Everything has a beginning, a development and an end

It´s a small book that I found in one of those traveling stalls in a square in the city. For some time I had wanted to read the author of Leo Africanus, Samarkand and other works that are so well valued.

Particular cases

After a revision about his family tree: a Turk grandmother, an Egyptian Maronite grandfather, a poet and anticlerical grandfather and a great great grand uncle who was the first one in making a translation to Arabic of Moliere´s works... Amin Maalouf is convinced that ‘Humanity, whole it´s made by particular cases’ and that if one have to define his or her identity cannot only say ‘I am Arab’, ‘I am black’ or ‘I am Jewish’.

In the Name of Identity

Anyone could stop reading Amin Maalouf's book after his first paragraph. Anyone who was able to understand what the writer means by living on the edge (lisière) of two countries, two or three languages and different cultural traditions.

Godoy in Poland. Return to Warsaw

Fourth and last delivery

<<Saturday, 6^th October 2018

I'm going to Warsaw via Bialystok. I catch the bus at 9:00.

Sunny day and 8º. Pleasant trip, I do not know why but today I´ve paid 8 PLN.

Godoy in Poland. Hajnowka

The third email, Fran

<<Wednesday, 3^rd October 2018

It´s a greyish day. It´s raining. It´s common at this season of year.

I arrive early at the station and I see there is a bus which departs a 9:25. It´s 9:00, so I buy the ticket. Excellent panoramic view from Białystok to Hajnowka by 9PLN.