shaunrandol
19-Jul-2010, 13:55
Alberto Ruy-S?nchez's The Secret Gardens of Mogador explores the depths of sensuality found in the nurture of nature. In a modern take on the role of Scheherazade, the narrator of this erotic novella is charged with finding the gardens of a semi-mythical town and describing their intricacies each night to his lover, Hassiba. Can the narrator win her love with his amorous tales?
The Secret Gardens of Mogador
by Alberto Ruy-S?nchez
translated from the Spanish by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan
White Pine Press, 2009, 188 pp.
The Passionate Gardener
Going to bed each night with The Secret Gardens of Mogador (http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-9781893996991-2&partner_id=33826)is like going to bed each night with a lover. The pages of Alberto Ruy-Sanchez?s most recent book to be translated into English drip with sensuality, wooing the reader into a story and a land of subdued, carnal rapture. Not that each page carries a lurid lovemaking scene or portraits of nudity (though the cover and accompanying illustrations reveal a nude, statuesque beauty). Rather, the various tales within this novella portray eroticism as if it were a second language, or a sixth sense; eroticism is just an everyday part of living, like breathing.
Continue reading this review on The Mantle (http://www.mantlethought.org/content/passionate-gardener)
The Secret Gardens of Mogador
by Alberto Ruy-S?nchez
translated from the Spanish by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan
White Pine Press, 2009, 188 pp.
The Passionate Gardener
Going to bed each night with The Secret Gardens of Mogador (http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-9781893996991-2&partner_id=33826)is like going to bed each night with a lover. The pages of Alberto Ruy-Sanchez?s most recent book to be translated into English drip with sensuality, wooing the reader into a story and a land of subdued, carnal rapture. Not that each page carries a lurid lovemaking scene or portraits of nudity (though the cover and accompanying illustrations reveal a nude, statuesque beauty). Rather, the various tales within this novella portray eroticism as if it were a second language, or a sixth sense; eroticism is just an everyday part of living, like breathing.
Continue reading this review on The Mantle (http://www.mantlethought.org/content/passionate-gardener)