Review: "OPHELIA RISING" by UMBERTO TOSI
I was honored to read this book before was officially published. Umberto Tosi has chosen a challenging subject for his novel. Ophelia – as a character of Shakespeare’s Hamlet tragedy-play, may direct commentators and reviewers to the trap of comparing Tosi’s works with that of the Bard.
I prefer to reveal author’s inner urge for writing and from that point to assess novel's own, for me the most appealing, merit.
OPHELIA RISING takes you on the kind of journey which only heroes and heroines from your favorite books are able to walk. In a comfort of your rocking chair and with the breath-holding excitement you merge with the narrative. In the end, however, you are happy that you were only reading a book, and didn’t live through that story.
Indeed, that journey is reserved only for heroes and heroines. No one can take the same steps as they did. Many protagonists live only in a writer’s imagination; but certain write their story behind the scenes, unknown, hidden, without any attempt to make themselves public. Then, it becomes author’s journey, unexpected and mostly complex, to reveal them. Journey, that provides him with the experiences to recount all the tiny details and loose ends as a breathtaking tapestry, proudly standing in our libraries on a prestige place.
The rewards are remarkable – quenched thirst for knowing more, travels to places, physical or intellectual, where he would not ever go. Meeting the people he would not know otherwise, understanding the simplest truths, which are for most unclear.
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