The Wind from the East
by Almudena Grandes
published
May 3rd 2007
by Phoenix
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Paperback, 544 pages
isbn
0753821591
(isbn13: 9780753821596)
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Read in October, 2007
A big, fat novel. I’d resisted her books without too much difficulty, although the English translations are all over the UK best-seller lists and the 3-for-2 bins in the chain bookshops. ‘More Iberian ardour’ [!!:], said a Financial Times review of the fat novel in question, Los Aires Difíciles - The Wind from the East, in English translation by my favourite literary translator from Spanish, Sonia Soto, while The Guardian described it as a ‘classy blockbuster’. Tssk, it’s so much mo...more
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Read in March, 2008
I wish I could put 3.5 stars.
Not what I was expecting at all from Almudena Grandes. Maybe it is her writing (this is the first book I've read by her) or maybe the translation, but the book didn't feel very Spanish. I've lived in Madrid (the more realistic setting of the book) and I've lived in Cadiz, and there was something just not quite right in the contemporary sections of the book. The historical flashbacks were quite good, but the feeling was a little off.
As for a story, it's incredi...more
Not what I was expecting at all from Almudena Grandes. Maybe it is her writing (this is the first book I've read by her) or maybe the translation, but the book didn't feel very Spanish. I've lived in Madrid (the more realistic setting of the book) and I've lived in Cadiz, and there was something just not quite right in the contemporary sections of the book. The historical flashbacks were quite good, but the feeling was a little off.
As for a story, it's incredi...more
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Read in October, 2007
This was an interesting book - two neighbors are fleeing from their memories in Madrid. Neither are particularly nice people but both of them have been victimized a bit by the ones they love. They are hiding from their mistakes and they form a sort of family together (through the love of a good woman - their shared HOT housekeeper!)I did get pulled in a bit by the back dramas which I found more interesting than the present day story but I found the end to be a bit of an anticlimax after all the ...more
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Vuelve la tensión y el dominio de la narración que demostró en Malena es un nombre de tango. Me cautiva menos el desarrollo lineal con flashbacks muy largos, pero está muy bien contada y te mantiene deseando continuar con la lectura permanentemente.
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