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The Lady Matador’s Hotel takes place in an upscale hotel in an unnamed Central American capital. It tells the stories of six individuals whose lives intersect in significant and not so significant ways. The varied characters of the novel include a Mexican-American-Japanese matadora who is competing in a high profile bullfighting competition, a Korean businessman who is under scrutiny for labor rights violations at his factory, a Cuban poet who is in town to adopt a child with his American wife,
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Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to our beautiful Hotel Miraflor located in South America. I hope you enjoy your stay with us. For your convenience we have a Garden Restaurant in the hotel and they serve excellent pork chops. Aura will be your waitress. Aura is an ex-guerrilla and has had tragedy in her life. Be nice to her and she will treat you well. Don't forget to see our funny parrot who hangs out at the bar. The bartender teaches him to say such silly phrases.
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I really enjoyed this book and this will be on my list of top reads for 2010.
What I liked about this book:
- the sensual prose, the tight structure of the language and the wonderful phrasing to express an issue
- the structure of the book - that each chapter was a day of the week and the main part was the characters narrating their pov of what happened to them that day and at the end of the chapter snippets from the news on what the facts were that happened
- explored the issues of power/guerilla ...more
What I liked about this book:
- the sensual prose, the tight structure of the language and the wonderful phrasing to express an issue
- the structure of the book - that each chapter was a day of the week and the main part was the characters narrating their pov of what happened to them that day and at the end of the chapter snippets from the news on what the facts were that happened
- explored the issues of power/guerilla ...more
Aug 06, 2010
Daisy
marked it as to-read
Aug 25, 2010
Ching-In
marked it as to-read
Nov 23, 2011
Deedee
marked it as to-read
