Van Gerry

Long Memory II Van Gerry

Whilst you?re still in someone?s memory; you can never die. Long Memory 1 traces the history of a multiracial family from 1492 to the 2000 Millennium. It is set against the backgrounds of Mexico, The Bahamas, America and England. The novel chronicles the five hundred year emotional commitment of the main characters to a love partnership, a place and a people. At the beginning of Long Memory II, the curtain of the 20th Century stage is about to open; but, east is still east, west is still west and it appears, from the Aztec Dynasty?s point of view that never the twain shall meet: Everyone concerned is waiting expectantly for something? anything to happen, although, 99.9% of both British, and Eleutherean branches of The Family has no idea that they are waiting for anything or anybody? Tragedy strikes on both sides of the Atlantic in the early years of the century; and a final romantic resolution of the expectancies voiced in Mexico four hundred years before, are only achieved during the last decade of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century: ?The poet T. S. Eliot wrote of the world ending: Not with a bang but a whimper. Maybe our promised Aztec millennium and a new world began four years ago, not with a bang but a whimper - the whimper of our newborn child.? Apart from presenting an historical and romantic panorama of my island, the novel also poses a question: What if? The development of this query into the story takes the narrative into the realm of fantasy? or then again, anything may be possible.