The Cry Of The Hiena
(FRANCISCO BAUTISTA)
THE CRY OF THE HIENA can be catalogued as historic, although it has a certain touch of novel. This book takes us to a part of Spain?s history which we know very little about. This story is based in the Sahara, during a period taking place before the abandonment of Spain to the hands of Morocco and is seen through the eyes of a young man, who was working there during that time, a young man from a scarcely populated town, with traditions and a way of life marked by its people. We?re talking of the 1970?s, a time of extreme hardship in which advances were few; of the struggle of a town to reach its independence and later be able to shake off the subjugation of their new colonizers, a struggle which still goes on. It is also a novelistic story because the main character lives his life parallel to the native men but also lives it parallel to the men of his nationality who surround him, tough men, legionaries accustomed to surviving through extreme conditions, sailors fed up with the sea but wishful of returning to it, women dedicated to prostitution as their only way out of their loneliness and, of course, normal human beings trying to survive in infrahuman conditions. This is a story of love and wars, of hatred and feelings; it is a very well narrated story that takes us closer to a part of us we need to know.
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