BRAVISSIMO IVAN BRAVE

IVÁN BRAVE — THE SUMMER ABROAD, A NOVEL — EL VIAJE DE EGRESADOS, UNA NOVELA –FIRST EDITION 2018

This book is amazingly bizarre and fascinating. The main hero, Mikail, who speaks in the first person and tells the story from his point of view exclusively is supposedly from Austin, Texas. But before entering his story let me say a few words about the author Ivan Brave who lives and teaches English in New York City, where he earned a Master’s in Fine Arts from The New School. He has traveled extensively throughout Europe, North and South America, with experience in Southeast Asia. We’ll see that this experience is fundamental to understand this novel, not so much the particular countries he is going to cross but the general experience of traveling. He apparently writes and speaks Spanish too, though he did not mention when in Barcelona that everything is in two languages there, Spanish and Catalan. He also speaks some French and declares his favorite book is “Le Petit Prince” by Saint Exupéry. I taught this novel in North Carolina a long time ago.

But we have to be patient when starting to read the book because for these travelers (Mikail, Rick, Alex) to…