Bluff area

"The tableland of multicolored stone, carved into a gigantic labyrinth by canyons, all draining eventually into the narrow green belt of the San Juan bottom. Multiple hundreds of miles of sculptured stone, cut off in the north by the blue-green of the mountains. The slanting afternoon sun outlining it into a pattern of gaudy sandstone and deep shadows. "
Em Hunting Badger, de Tony Hillerman.


Viajar ao fim-de-semana, desta vez para a Bluff Area, pela mão de Tony Hillerman, o escritor de thrillers Navaho. A recordar uma pequena paixão, que nem sequer era literatura, era entertenimento.

"I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind. In Hunting Badger, for example, I needed an abandoned mine shaft on the margins of the Navajo-Southern Ute territories because I wanted to revive memories of the troubles between those two tribes and the legend of a Ute warrior who raided the Navajos and how he was finally disposed of. I got a lot of help from the U.S. Geological Survey on that one, and spent a lot of time driving over very bad roads on the Arizona-Utah borders. I have always felt that making the reader away of the vast emptiness of our high desert is important to making the story work." (Tony Hillerman)
A entrevista toda, aqui.