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Ryan
Jan 11, 2018 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
A deeply engrossing story, so much so that it carries the reader beyond early difficulties of discerning who is narrating which chapter at its outset (it always takes a paragraph). Brutally violent, no two ways about that.

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The scandal surrounding its author cannot be ignored once it is known. While in the past we would hear his voice most clearly in one of the two indigenous characters, now it feels most appropriately assigned to the white Jesuit.

A pity, and perhaps unfair, but an
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Beverly
This was a 4.5 read for me.
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Sep 13, 2013 marked it as to-read
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Sep 19, 2016 marked it as to-read
Martha
Dec 07, 2016 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Mar 06, 2018 marked it as vaca-home-library
Shiva
May 15, 2019 rated it it was amazing
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Jun 19, 2023 marked it as to-read