A monkey, the only survivor of a shipwreck, landed on the island of Iffe, home to a community of men and women isolated from the world for centuries. Now, it seems clear that while men are plagued by unhappiness and dissatisfaction, she is a complete entity, it would not need them to survive. Men are morbidly interested in her. As different, the new individual come from the sea appears as the perfect receptacle for all expectations and dreams unfulfilled.
may have knowledge that the islanders are closed, may have power or wealth to where it came from. In short, the monkey becomes the most prominent in the community. But how can he understand them, she has no language, these men who vie for his attention and advance incomprehensible claims?
Vera crazy, tender character of the book, unique approaches to accommodate the monkey for what it is really a being of nature and not the world, is another individual who lives outside the human community. Vilified as unable to comply with an order which he can not understand the need. Living without a story without a clear social role, without a clear and shared, Vera has challenged the community, and for this they have been exiled. With a clearer view of what his fellow citizens was able to expose hypocrisy. You knew their secrets hidden behind the immaculate facades. For this reason, the community took its revenge, making her the drain of its flaws and the goat on which to pour out the hatred and fear of difference.
The role of sacrificial victim, but soon will go to the monkey, with a violence and ferocity even more blind. True, as far as mentally confused, is human, and suffered their own marginalization. The monkey hand, nature, not at all suffer the loss of men. To get her away her suffering would not be enough, you have to hit, hit and hit again.
A small book, written wonderful, fun on every page but ruthless ruthless because they know to be human beings when the other threatens their fragile little world.
Valentina Petracchi
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