Book: Brown Morning
Author: Franck Pavloff
Publisher: Natraj Publishers
Genre: Fiction
Cover/Design Details: Rendering a color to the world that begins to focus on one single color – Brown. The cover speaks of the book’s core focus on the word ‘brown’ and the morning that changes it for all. The dog is one of the starting points for brown. Inside illustrations and graphics in brown and white add a character to the whole book. Good rendering of design and color overall.
Outline: How much brown can you take in? And if you can’t take it anymore what will happen?
Flow: Like the singular focus of a morning situation that impacts the whole story and how the main character needs to move forward with a single color affecting his life. It is a simple yet short one.
My Review: A color that is of earth. Good to start off but then can get into your head and lead to either a revolt or a hopeless submission to authoritative rule. When you wear, see and buy everything has to be brown. To the extent that brown is something you feel the need to speak too for extra cautious emphasis. How much can one be brown to not attract attention or be a suspect? A spectacular dig on fascist regimes and this book is a startling way to point out how we are made to condition ourselves in the diktats of the rule. What I am still unable to come to terms is that such a short book and yet in brevity it gives me so much to think about – a life that is stolen of choices and colors.
(This book also includes the original French text, Matin Brun.)
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