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For my Around the World challenge (Argentina).
Something about the "magic realism" in this novel about Argentina's Dirty War didn't work for me. There were elements of great story-telling here, but parts of the writing just seemed sloppy (unmotivated plot twists, far-fetched connections, "historical facts" that were thrown in but not developed or they weren't even accurate, etc). Still, I breezed through it in one day, eager to find out how the story ended, so there were certainly some redeeming ...more
Something about the "magic realism" in this novel about Argentina's Dirty War didn't work for me. There were elements of great story-telling here, but parts of the writing just seemed sloppy (unmotivated plot twists, far-fetched connections, "historical facts" that were thrown in but not developed or they weren't even accurate, etc). Still, I breezed through it in one day, eager to find out how the story ended, so there were certainly some redeeming ...more
11/24 rec via bookmooch
Oct 08, 2009
Juliana Philippa
marked it as to-read
Apr 16, 2011
Ruth
marked it as to-read
