More than a novel is a fun to use, a book airport or pool, ideal for summer. Good story, precise technique of one who has covered many hours of correspondent and editor in newspapers, and old enjoyed for journalists who reunite with proofs, typesetters, types, boxes, deck, branches, chibaletes, proofreaders and sleeves. The story is coming because the characters are not as complex as we sometimes think that politicians are inaccessible, deified and owners, not managers, of power. Zuloaga was friar cook before and knows the cloth from the stove and from the refectory of the convent. The island of the rebels was a prescient book that works for any country, including Spain, but should be required reading in Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Honduras, Nicaragua, etc..

The cheap populism that takes away from the masses only serves to elevate leaders who barter the urn for the hem for life. Javier Zuloaga's novel is a clever satire and amusing and a great screenplay if some clever producer wants to get a few coins Gonzalez-Sinde.

In the small island of San Gregorio, lost in a vague place in the Caribbean, is known worldwide. Lucas Perez, a revered and respected professor of Humanities, has seen it grow to all those who today have minimal relevance in the public life of the island. So the mood is very familiar, and especially the weaknesses, the President of this small republic, Armando Gabaldon, politically inept and easy toy in the hands of multinational oil interests. The effects of political marketing make him a kind of magic totem that the town looks almost like a perfect being. But the reality is different and John Delaware, personal adviser to the president, handled skillfully threads presidential looking, always, the interests of the petrochemical companies operating in the waters of San Gregorio. Few imagine that the seed of rebellion is germinating and that anything can happen in the next presidential election.

The island of the rebels is a satire which unravels, so eloquent, easements policy, whatever its sign. Javier Zuloaga has written a wonderful fable about the illusions of politics and media arts who live around him to lead the people into reverie.

Javier Zuloaga (Bilbao, 1952). Writer and journalist. Javier Zuloaga has been intense activity in the field of information, business communication, collaboration journalism and fiction. Director of three regional newspapers: La Voz de Castilla in Burgos, San Sebastian unit and El Dia de Baleares. Delegate of EFE in Portugal, Argentina and Morocco. Chief Editor of the Vanguard, and collaborations in print and broadcast media. Between 1989 and 2006 was responsible for communication of "la Caixa" and subsequently took charge of the Directorate of Social Work Communication. Also devotes his time to the journalistic collaboration and the novel. In 2005 she published her first novel The Man who could be free in the same collection.

Publisher: El Aleph, 2009. Modern and Classical Library, 309 PVP: 19,95 € (without VAT 19.18); pages: 280, ISBN: 978-84-7669-878-5; Paperback with flaps, 14 x 21.5 cms.