Tom Hanks debuts as a novelist and publishes “Another great masterpiece of cinema”

After having surprised readers in 2018 with the book of short stories “Singular types”, actor Tom Hanks publishes his first novel, “Another great work of the master of cinema”, in which he tells the backdrops of the start-up of a blockbuster with great stars of the screen inspired by a superhero comic. Published in Spain by Roca Editorial, The novel – which also includes drawings that the author made especially for the edition – is an inside look at the world of cinema, although it is also encouraged to address the most recent history of the United States, a walk through the unreality of the world of filming but also through the most concrete of the American identity. The story begins in 1947, when a soldier with problems returns from the war and meets his five-year-old nephew, a boy with a great talent as a cartoonist who manages to impress him. Then, the text is taken up again in 1970, when uncle and nephew meet again after more than two decades without seeing each other and that boy has become a brilliant artist of clandestine comics in Oakland, California.The reunion makes the nephew redraw that comic with which at five years old he tried to impress adults, but, this time, with his uncle as the protagonist and turned into a hero who fights during World War II.In the pages of the novel also appears a successful film director who discovers by chance that comic of the 70s and decides to turn it into a superhero blockbuster.

Original source in Spanish