Three years ago Milena Moser gave up her flat and her writing room in Aarau and moved to the US for the second time and on her own. On her 50th birthday she had given herself a trip to the United States.
The divorce lay behind her, she wanted to find happiness and fall in love again. She did, but not in a new man, but in a house – in Santa Fe in the state of New Mexico. If she would make her claims, she would have time for what was most important to her: time to write.
Now, three years later, he is here: the new novel by Milena Moser. And, you can immediately say: "Land of the sons" is a furiously told book. It runs from the 1940s to the present and tells a family story about three generations. The main themes are: the struggle for freedom, self-determination and identity. And of course the novel also tells about America.
Two fathers
The prelude takes place in San Francisco, where Milena Moser lived for eight years. Sofia is twelve. Although there is only one subject for the other girls at her school, boys, she dresses as the first female pilot and is interested in robots and flying. Sofia grew up like a princess because her fathers had to wait for her for so long. Fathers? Exactly: Sofia was conceived with the help of a surrogate mother.
Attentive and cautious, Papa Giò and Papa Santi take care of their dear daughter. But the safety she grew up in has been cracked. On the one hand there is the announcing puberty. And there is the death of Papa Giò's grandfather, Big Lou, an overwhelming Hollywood producer.
The certainties are gone, and the biggest fear of the girl is that her fathers might separate. How different is she to suggest that Papa Santi needs time for herself and that Papa Giò goes with her alone to New Mexico, near Santa Fe?
Dramatically smart, Milena Moser combines the journey by train from California to the high desert two previous trips. In the forties the little Luigi and his mother are on the same route. She takes him to Española Outdoor School for Boys where he learns & # 39; a real guy & # 39; to become. The charismatic schoolmaster Major Bartlett, a veteran from the First World War, cultivates an exaggerated masculinity ideal.
Masculinity cult: the boys' ranch school in Los Alamos (1917-1941).
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His boys have to feed on chopped liver, in the morning there are nudist sports, the male community is held up and he maintains an unhealthy proximity to his protégés. "You have to break with your past, only then can you be a man." he conceived Luigi, whom he calls Lou, with the typical monotony of American male names.
He wants to become independent, self-sufficient and strong in the 1970s, when the little Giò and his mother ride the same route in the 1970s for the overwhelming patriarch Big Lou, who has become Luigi, in a new life in a hippie commune, she gives herself completely to free love and drugs in the self-actualizing madness.
Hippiehochburg: Yogi Bhajan (1929-2004) founded an ashram on Española.
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Two sons
Milena Moser tells stories from the perspective of the children and shows their inability to classify the events when the mother has deported him because she wants to start a new life with her new husband, wonders Luigi: Or does she just want to continue with the work of his father, a lawyer from Ticino who supposedly paid his life for refugees during the Second World War?
Heartbroken is the loss of both boys – Luigi, who has no choice, someone else as Major Bartlett as father, fighting for his love and all doubts turn against himself, and Giorgio, whose mother lost him more and more until he finally only in the pueblo under the Indians find a temporary shelter 59020] Indian pueblos: in contrast to the reservations, the legends and other traditions have been preserved. "title =" Indianpueblos: Unlike the reservations, the legends and other traditions have been preserved. 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