:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/F742KYQ6PBACFD7L4P6ENWBCCU.jpg "The reconstruction of Panama from family memories in \"Landscape Fugitives\" 1")
After three decades, the novel written by Jean-David Morgan is reissued in 2023. It is “Fugitives from the landscape », an account that the lawyer published in 1992, four years after the death of his father. This work is composed of pieces of his family history, which oscillate between history, novel and non-fiction, in which the Latin American landscapes occupy a central place, to tell the birth of Panama.
Morgan is responsible for infecting the reader with the spirit of a nation newly independent of Colombia, a destination considered promising for families who come to this strange land far from the city. This book was written in the late 1980s, just as the invasion of UNITED STATES A Panama.
Uniting own and shared memories, Morgan shows the resonances of this occupation and this difficult period for the Panamanian people. The novel begins with the arrival of the family Thomas Caleroand it is through them that the reader becomes witness to the epic of a country.
“The novel is much larger in the rural part than in the urban part, despite the fact that more important things happened in Panama City from the historical point of view, especially because of the intervention that my father had in many of them,” Morgan said in an interview with the Torreon century.
Morgan He also describes the landscapes that have accompanied him and his family throughout their history, including the Colombian mountains, the Volcan Barú and the provinces of Panama and also of the stormy sea of Gusts of wind (Aberystwyth). Born to a Welsh father and a Colombian mother, the author highlights the family values that were consolidated in this small town where the story takes place.
The Panamanian writer transports the reader to blowjoba place located in Chiriquithe border region Costa Rica, describes how he and his parents felt about this rural area. “Landscape Fugitives” it is an exercise in memory but also a questioning of the present.
It is, in itself, a tribute to his family, in particular to his father. It was he who inspired the novelist to create Andrew Thomasprotagonist of this story, a man whose growth, love and fatherhood are chronicled in the novel, but also a man who is forced to deal with loss, change and failure.
“I was filling in the spaces with my imagination, creating a larger context, that’s how it became a novel that I didn’t want to publish; finally I accepted. It was my first book that hit the shelves, and after that I kept writing,” Morgan said in an interview with Indigo Report.
The story begins at the end of the 19th century, when the story of three generations of the thomaswitnesses of Panama’s first steps as a nation until it became a destination for foreigners looking for a fresh start with the construction of the canal.
The writer reflects not only on the transformation of a territory, but also on these lands which are inside the characters. Morgan He sees in his work an opportunity for Latin America to reconstruct in its story the memories of its own landscapes.
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