All children's story protects the adult terrors. Who was really the Pied Piper of Hamelin? Rodolfo Castro tries to solve this puzzle in his book "The Pied Piper of Hamelin before." With an interesting prose, not so simple, in language that evokes the poetic and the occult, Castro is on target to tackle the dark that has the character. The plot is in some way, meta text. A man recovers an old diary that belonged to his grandmother and he discovers the diary of the flute: his knowledge of black magic, its strange Don, the plague that ravaged Europe, the fighting among flutists to dominate nature.
In the novel there is a very pleasing game between reality and fantasy, so that both complement and create a really dark, dirty, but magical. It is a book that any child will enjoy despite obscure or archaic references digressions. The book is a crack that opens and swallows a mouthful the reader's imagination.
start reading: May 15
order reading: May 15
pp. 68
Publisher: Alfaguara child
country: Mexico
location: Mexico City.
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