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I’ll have to sit and think about this one for a long time. It’s beautifully written and it made me look more into the history of Chile. I highly recommend.
not for me! sorry krish :(
A masterful force of magical realism - Allende captures the typical beats of Latin American magical realism (to an extent that I could see an argument that this novel is an unauthorized remake of One Hundred Years of Solitude) including political violence and revolution, inter generational ties and trauma, and a withering criticism of the status quo. But while typical in many ways this is probably the best formulated story I’ve read among magical realism and the magical elements fuse with the na
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