For Alberto Mansur, the writing has always been there. One could even say that the process has been cyclical in nature. In the beginning, he says he wrote for pleasure, as an escape, often crafting short stories inspired by the songs he liked as a child growing up in Mexico City.
“I wanted to write a story about how the center wins, making the center prevail,” he says. “I wanted is so that the reader could see the dangers of the extremes and seeing the good guys win.” “I’m a firm believer in Stephen King’s philosophy that writers are like fossil hunters,” says Mansur, referencing the famous horror novelist’s approach to writing. He says he took that approach to writing his own novel, letting the story come to him as he mapped out his character’s lives. “Like archeologists, your job as a writer is to clean up the bones and build the dinosaur.”
He brings this logic to the characters in “Only the Dead Know Peace.” Each of them has their own ideas of the ongoing conflicts within the country, but each struggles to understand what might be the best solutions for the region or questioning why they feel the way they do in the first place.Mansur knew he wanted the duality of the two cultures clearly represented, with the characters representing different sides of life in modern day Israel.
And while Mansur says he’s still winding down his law practice, he says that fiction writing is now his main gig.
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