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Izai Amorim was born and raised in Brazil but spent most of his adult life abroad, briefly in the USA, mostly in Germany. He was trained as an architect and worked many years in the profession. But his real passion is storytelling. At some point in his life he decided to mix storytelling with architecture, changed profession, and became a branding consultant, something that he loves and has been doing to these days. He uses his branding skills to help the cause of climate change, sustainability, and environment protection. He writes about his two great interests: the interplay of media, information, and politics in a globalized world and the quest for identity and borders in this cultural melting pot.
Reviewed by Karen Pirnot for Readers' Favorite
If you want a good brain-teaser, you might just want to pick up a copy of The Games by Izai Amorim. The novel is complex in its conceptualization and many readers may want more action in the first hundred pages when the author develops the characters that eventually play into the bombing of Berlin. The book is a satire on the social and environmental issues which come together to formulate political decision-making. The population in general is viewed as a collective mass which prefers to hide behind lace curtains rather than delve into the machinations of the shakers and movers in the USE (the United States of Europe. Although Great Britain did not join the USE, they do have clout in politics simply due to their overall influence in the world.
Basically, we have an environmental agency, the press, and politicians wanting influence - all interacting to formulate what is "best" for citizens. Those in power want more power and they accomplish this by taking or making tragedies and capitalizing on them by reframing them for the ignorant public. They continually ask for contributions for their causes and thus the common man is subsidizing the criminal works of the establishments.
I found the character of Rainer-Werner Sprengberg to be the most well-developed in the novel. Rainer-Werner is a former terrorist who has no comprehension of the modern world after having served twenty-five years in prison for his terrorist activities. Readers got a good glimpse of the coldness of the character as well as circumstances which tend to dictate success and failure. Overall, the novel is intended to get a distinct message across to the reader: if power is left unattended and unmonitored, it will corrupt even the strongest principles of a nation. Izai Amorim accomplishes his message with a great deal of authority.
