Days and nights or Sarah's smile, by: Gilbert Sinoué

Sinuwa a wonderful storyteller, plays with legends and memories, but also plays with our nerves and desires. This book is a legend addressed to those who still love the marvelous. The contradiction between two worlds is what is depicted here. On one hand, there is the modern world, skeptical, immersed in rationality, the world that has continuously achieved victories since replacing fate with chance, and still looks sarcastically at these beliefs which it considers trivial and funny. On the other hand, there is the old world that unites man and the universe, and believes that nothing comes by chance, not even death. The new world is Argentina in the 1930s. It is a perfect setting, and the innocence of vast spaces. Beginnings of a civil dictatorial renaissance. This land, ravaged by winds, Indians, and shepherds, shares the infinite gods with the children of Italian, Spanish, or French immigrants who came here seeking peace away from their countries engulfed in wars. But the 1930s also saw the rise of a new science arriving directly from Europe: psychoanalysis. A woman, Adlma Mizzani, a student of Carl Gustav Jung (who followed Freud’s teachings but soon parted from his mentor to develop his own theories about the collective unconscious and dream interpretation), entered the world of Ricardo Vakarisa, very formal. This man does not believe in fate or reincarnation, considers psychoanalysts and seers as charlatans, and relies only on sacred reason. But those dreams... Sinuwa has a sense of the marvelous. And this book — which aims to take your breath away — is a great exploration of hidden worlds, and a variation on the Orpheus myth. It is a wonderful love story. The novel "Days and Nights" is an invitation to remember the following obvious: in dreams, the gods, in the past, spoke to those who chose them, and in dreams, our memories give us the strength to look forward. In our dreams lies the key to our destiny. Ricardo and Sara do not know this truth, but they are the immortal stars who found Linera, a world shrouded in darkness, our world. Number of pages 365.