Els països del tallamar

THE LANDS OF TALLAMAR In Australian aboriginal lore sacred ancestorscreated the world during the ?Dreamtime?. In the dream haunted worldof The lands of Tallamar, a Valencian immigrant, to Provence and NewSouth Wales, possesses a black matrix opal that enables him to movethrough time and space at will. He and his family are watched over byan enigmatic Pilgrim Falcon during their planetary trip from Europe to the lands of the Southern Cross and back.The characters of the novel all bear the name of birds -- spirits that do not change but are rather transformed, departing and returninguntil they have reached perfection. Only with her untimely death doesthe Lady White Dove, the third sister of the protagonist, LordMallard, achieve this.In his previous incarnations, Lord Mallard was a scribe in AncientEgypt,an illuminator monk in the Middle Ages and Lady White Dove'sSiamese twin scribe in the mid 16th century Nigeria. In the early 21st century he writes of the past lives of Lord Shearwater and LadyLark?s six siblings, tracing their previous lives in Occitania,Imperial Rome, Scandinavia, Iceland, Newfoundland, Nigeria, Russia orthe land of the Thais.In a parallel story Lord Mallard will recount five generations of hisfamily: from his great grandparents arriving in Elx in 1890, all theway to his own son?s migration to England in 2012. But he will focuson the migrations from Elx in February 1956, to Marseilles, and onApril 1968, to Sydney, until the family moves back to Elx, the weekbefore Christmas 1972. Lord Mallard will be the first member of thefamily born outside the Iberian Peninsula in quite a few centuries.Lady White Dove, the twin of his soul, will make him pledge to writeover one hundred thousand words, which will enable her brother to take the path of wisdom. Behind it all, he will feel the heart beat ofLady Mallard, the wife who will give him a son and a daughter. In apristine lyricism, that recalls the author's polyglot upbringing, thereader learns of the initimate details of a sprawling Valencianfamily, driven by need and shattered by tragedy, not quite united bylove.A ?tallamar? is a wooden plank used in the Elx irrigation system todivert water to different irrigation channels. Lord Mallard willchoose the land of his family whilst he sings his love for the landsthat gave him his story.Amb els personatges de la novel·la viatjareuper l?espai i el temps a la recerca de la perfecció.