A protagonist narrator who is fighting the ghosts of this stranger, a hidden reality, born in Florence, art lover, he paints, with a dream in a drawer, you can open an art gallery in Florence, where exhibit of emerging painters paintings along with their works. The desire of the gallery is strong, but the trip to Africa and especially staying in this place without space or time makes it increasingly weak until it is turned into a desire to stay in the neighboring farm to the Galana River, including acacias, palms and giant sandalwood plants from fleshy fruit and a persistent calyx. Alex is the name of the protagonist, he stops kindergarten animal, treatment location rhinos, monkeys and elephants before being released into the wild, because it is his father's research now missing for more than two decades. The mania for truth does not prevent him to become attached kindergarten and above all fall in love with Daphne the owner of the animal shelter. A love story that is intertwined with the stories of animals that occur in the center and is handled with the participation and the fondness that only parents reserve a newborn. The story flows smoothly and fast, writing is smooth, the plot intersects on several floors, the violence of poachers, the friendship between people of different cultures, dedication to the animal world, the love between man and woman and the sex as pure primal outburst. Matilde has a happy pen and this ease in the writing is aided by a deep knowledge of the places that describes and talks about, places he loves and who was able to visit and live in person, for her "heaven of Kenya is a continuous tale" He is aware, because he could see with his own eyes, that "nature commands and always wins" but also that "Africa opens your heart and mind ..."; of course it is not all idyllic, serenity vanishes and we often collides, with people who only think about money, with the arrogance of exploitation and cynical violence and barbaric this exploitation of those who perpetrate it and makes it a source of wealth. The rapid expansion of the Chinese economy, where objects in carved ivory are a status symbol, is directly responsible for the cruel and irreversible decline of populations of elephants and rhinos. Kenya is one of the nation where poaching is most evident in Nairobi ninety percent of traffickers arrested is Chinese, an unstoppable phenomenon that has reached unprecedented levels. A book that you are passionate to the end, an act of denunciation of poaching, we think that in a year are killed more than thirty thousand elephants for the ivory of their tusks, a book that should be introduced in all schools in order to familiarize kids the beauty of Africa, but also the sad reality that shatters and bleeds. A book not only to bring to light one indiscriminate killing, but above all to educate people not to buy jewelry, jewelry, ivory before the claim does not increase and the killing of elephants and rhinos decreases until it terminates.

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