Francisco Medina. The cry of the placenta. Lima, Mesa Redonda, 2010. 168 pp. 
fiction's ways are so mysterious and fascinating as the most deluded mystic or religious road map. Francisco Medina reproached us that by releasing his debut, no less a novel temporal counterpoint with a very suggestive title: The cry of the placenta . The author reminds us that literary experience is fundamentally an exaltation of the invention, a commitment to recreation that is not anchored within the limits of verisimilitude. Medina ventures beyond the boundaries between the possible and unlikely to offer an original story, fresh and fun, but also to break the reader with troubling issues and themes thorny. Medina narrative strategy is simple on its surface and, in turn, complicated bill. The chapters alternate linear and independent counting a story that is certain, will cross, convinced that is directly proportional to the anxiety experienced by the reader that to happen soon. And that encounter that carry current events, places and people will come more than a revelation. To this end the author has worked with great dedication to the conflict in each story, and also different dosing schemes. Medina gets plausible how extended family secrets to a point where it does not jeopardize the balance of history, using plot weight palliatives that do not fall into the temptation of the story, although they overlap, for good, the makeup of his humor.
The story takes place quickly and smoothly, to show a society where family secrets are something like the soul of the party. But enter the novel game urban legends and open secrets to spice up the Lima, which exudes a special dye in the act of painting and develop the characters without falling or slipping in the vice of the sociological or either as self-referential journalism. The novel is born with a style that makes a concern about the pace. It's fast, but given the time to savor the reader at ease. In that sense, the book emphasizes the concern for the enjoyment and the enjoyment you should seek every novel.
Developed in twenty chapters, The cry of the placenta is a love affair with all that is sweet and terrible word implies. It is also a story of death, tragedy, transgression and fall, which focuses on display and discover the amount of passion that require the greatest dreams. And these, enhanced with real ingredients wonderful, contrasting with the dry-urban realistic projection make The cry of a novel placenta somewhat atypical map of Peruvian literature.
From one point of view, the novel is the story of the brothers Gabriel and Ernesto. In this factual level, corresponding to chapters peers, is a novel of sentimental education. Medina skillfully weaves the relationship between Gabriel and Ernesto, a key moment in their growth, they discover a box that when opened lets out a chilling scream. This desecration, as often happens in myths and literary tradition, will alter the family order, generating a series of adverse events.
Ernesto Gabriel and his happiness will be charged with this violation, but they ignore what they have done. But this is the link between an idealized family background, and a spring that will radically change their lives. With the opening of the case not only let out a cry not pleasant to symbolize an old familiar pain but an old broken promise to his grandmother (Camila). Both know they have broken the balance of this and that from that time have lost their innocence.
unknowingly been claimed violently by the adult world, an area that demolishes and eats with its rules and inflexible rules. Along with the cry that escaped from the box are the device of the forbidden poking through a hole appropriate on a wall and both sexual initiation, smaller engines are less important in this novel that opens spaces of satisfaction for the characters as a counterpart to the suffering that will be living.
Medina But beyond the story of adolescent incest and sexual dysfunction. The novel also explores own environments for family life. Raises a series, ie a family history seen through the generations, to tell the story of a house, a neighborhood, city and country. The author does not hesitate to locate a fact, recreating a past time without committing anachronisms. The passages of time we are in a Lima strict social conventions and family where relations of power between adults and children are perceived today as disproportionate.
Francisco Medina, the author, as we see in the captivating cover of the book, invites us to spying licensing its first 'commission' literature. With this novel, the narrator reminds us, incidentally, that the literary exercise is not simply putting words together but the decision a little perverted, dangerous and subversive horadas the walls that keep us from being happy and honest.
Here I present a new range of menthol cigarette brand Pall Mall being the most notable change the color of the pack, which usually remain green is darker this time being almost black, the other novelty that certainly is important is for the new photo and text of the health warning that changes every year, it began to appear in the middle of this month however still sell cigarettes with the warning above it is obvious finally disappear when all the stock is still trade is fully sold. The reverse bears the text: The snuff leaves you powerless, for you and your spouse stops smoking. 
