LisaRose's review
Tales from the Town of Widows
by James Cañón (Goodreads author!)
LisaRose's review
Tales from the Town of Widows by James Cañón (Goodreads author!)
LisaRose's review
rating:
bookshelves:
dystopian-fiction,
latin-american-authors
recommended for: All who love to read
This is a story about finding one's identity and humanity. Just what can we endure when all that we know, all that has been culturally engrained, has been brutally ripped from us? That's one of the questions that Tales seems to answer. James Canon's style is elegant and lyrical, yet he never allows his reader to forget there is a war going on. And while the war is the backdrop for the overall plot development, it's the small battles, told in the tales of the widows and the chronicles of the men, the victories and defeats, about which we truly care.
Canon created characters of depth, who withstood cruelty with dignity, and who learned to control their destinies with grace and beauty. A lovely, triumphant novel. It gives me hope.
Canon created characters of depth, who withstood cruelty with dignity, and who learned to control their destinies with grace and beauty. A lovely, triumphant novel. It gives me hope.