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Great book. As I'm not the biggest fan of literaure from Latin/South America - this really good. It doesn't show off with scenes of sex and violance.
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The big problem I have with these "roman-fleuve" kinda family histories is that I get attached to a single permutation of the family and when they age and die, I have trouble feeling that the children/grand-children characters are as 3d as the ones I began with. This book has that issue, but it is otherwise consistently a joy.
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