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Steppe Eagles
Emilio Salgari
其他書名
One of the First Works of Emilio Salgari
出版
Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US
, 2021-09-22
主題
Fiction / Romance / Military
ISBN
9798481999692
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=3YunzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Synopsis of the book:
We are in 19th century Turkestan (yes, that's where Borat comes from). The "beg" Giah Agha, a powerful Turkmen chieftain, is preparing the marriage of his favorite grandson, the brave and loyal Hossein, to the beautiful Talmá, princess of the Sartos friendly tribe. But the ceremony ends tragically when a group of beloved Kyrgyz people - known as "eagles of the steppe", hence the name of the novel - kidnap and flee with Talmá. The desperate Hossein goes out in search of him. Worst in his group is the real person responsible for the kidnapping of Talmá ... who does not want Hossein to return alive from the adventure. Basically this is a hunting novel: a group of characters chase another around until they find them. But the action is inexhaustible from the beginning (in fact the first chapter starts from the middle of the action, then following with the explanation of why what happened happened), making you turn the pages without realizing it. Even the typical moment in Salgari novels where everything stops to describe a custom or place does not slow down the action as much as in other Salgari novels. And, although the characters are cliché (the brave and honest hero, the perfidious traitor, the strong and faithful secondary, etc.) they reflect quite credible motivations and according to the culture from which they come. Salgari's characters are not Westerners in disguise (as happens in many adventures by other authors) but credible natives, with their own cultural codes that resolve situations in agreement. Dating in that sense is much less Eurocentric than other adventure writers of the period. Aguilas de la estepa is a great start to this literary journey from Salgari. Absolutely recommended.
About the Author:
Italian writer, Emilio Salgari was born in Verona, Italy, on August 21, 1862, and died in Turin, Italy, on April 25, 1911. The son of a merchant family, as a young man he served aboard a ship that toured the Adriatic and Mediterranean coast, but there is no evidence that he made more voyages by sea, although he claimed that the exotic places that appeared in his books were based on sites that he had personally visited.
Salgari began to prepare at the Royal Naval Technical Institute P. Sarpi in Venice, but did not get to obtain the title of captain that he longed for. His action-packed novels were many, but he is probably best known for creating the character of Sandokan.
Despite his success, Salgari was one of the best-selling authors of his generation, he lived in relative misery that, together with the mental imbalance of his wife, the theater actress Ida Peruzzi, with whom he had four children, led him to commit suicide in 1911 by performing the traditional rite of Hara-kiri.