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Con su talento de siempre, Isabel Allende presenta aquí dos textos inéditos reunidos por primera …
Ya que terminé el libro que traje a Costa Rica, le pedí a mi prima que me diera otro en español, y este está bien pequeñito, así que no creo que sea muy difícil de terminar. No leo nunca en español, así que todavía me cuesta, y por eso este librecito creo que me caerá bien.
“Monkey Beach creates a vivid contemporary landscape that draws the reader deep into a traditional …
I've mostly said everything about my thoughts in my other comment, but overall, this book is stupendously written, and my gripes against it are probably subjective. There were some supernatural elements I wish could've been explored in a little more detail. Highly recommend this, but only if you're doing okay mental-health wise and space it out. Don't binge it like I did—it gets brutal and tragic at times.
I've mostly said everything about my thoughts in my other comment, but overall, this book is stupendously written, and my gripes against it are probably subjective. There were some supernatural elements I wish could've been explored in a little more detail. Highly recommend this, but only if you're doing okay mental-health wise and space it out. Don't binge it like I did—it gets brutal and tragic at times.
“Monkey Beach creates a vivid contemporary landscape that draws the reader deep into a traditional …
I was given this by a friend before she moved from Toronto to Singapore to start working after Uni; she said she read it for a class. Don't let the blurb fool you; this is far less a mystery lost-and-found story (slight spoiler, but the "searching" only begins nearly two thirds into the book) and more a microcosm of what growing up in Haisla land in the 80s was like, with a LOT more tragedy mixed in than what I was expecting. I binged the whole thing over two days, and that's something I cannot recommend—space it out, read it with friends. It'll make it a much lighter emotional load.
It's phenomenally written, and the atmosphere it creates is wonderous, but there were certain thematic decisions made that I don't fully agree with. Regardless, this is incredibly valuable literature. I'll probably read Son of a Trickster at some point …
I was given this by a friend before she moved from Toronto to Singapore to start working after Uni; she said she read it for a class. Don't let the blurb fool you; this is far less a mystery lost-and-found story (slight spoiler, but the "searching" only begins nearly two thirds into the book) and more a microcosm of what growing up in Haisla land in the 80s was like, with a LOT more tragedy mixed in than what I was expecting. I binged the whole thing over two days, and that's something I cannot recommend—space it out, read it with friends. It'll make it a much lighter emotional load.
It's phenomenally written, and the atmosphere it creates is wonderous, but there were certain thematic decisions made that I don't fully agree with. Regardless, this is incredibly valuable literature. I'll probably read Son of a Trickster at some point if this is the kind of prose I can look forward to in its pages.
Esta novela de José León Sánchez representa uno de los grandes best sellers de la …
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