The Bride of the Black Wave

Description

“Jefferson sat, they drank coffee, smoked, the sun set, the twilight on the sea veiled its face, the evening dew mingled with gentle breezes carrying the fragrance of flowers. The night in Petaho invites contemplation, as well as supplicatory thoughts and others of pleasure, among them the romantic love between two young women. One holds the other’s hand for the first time. An open window in his room welcomes the beauties of the evening in a seaside resort, and through the window, outside, one sees gradations of color on the horizon, which has hidden the sun behind its purple veil, framed by white formations of wispy clouds, in a farewell pause to day and light.”

A farewell to day and a welcome to night, a farewell to hopes and a welcome to sorrows, in that corner of the world, there in the resort of Petaho, that Chinese resort on the Pacific, the eye of Hanna Mina’s imagination rests, watching, so that he may continue the events of his novel “An Event in Petaho” through “The Bride of the Black Wave.” A narrative atmosphere that reveals the human story with its aspirations and emotions, its strength and weakness, its dreams and hopes, and its good and evil impulses.

Emotional and political events, alienation and struggle for principles and goals, imbue this novel with the essence of life in all its dimensions. Hanna Mina, with his sometimes exquisitely descriptive and at other times delightfully expressive style, infuses it with touches of movement and vitality.