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Not an easy read and sometimes hard to follow, but compelling told story of a selfish and handsome man who died young and left heartaches in every woman's life he touched.
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Juan Carlos is a handsome young man who is doted on by the women in his life. His mother, his sister, his ex and various other women. Juan Carlos has a problem, he's dying and his death has ramifications on the women in his life.
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Now here’s a Latin American novel that I would heartily recommend. Despite the fact that it deals with their endless fascination with what they term as ‘love’ (cf. Love in the Time of Cholera), it is written in the most individual style that I’ve yet come across from this area of the world.
Typically, works off the 1001 Books list from the continent of South America are either saccharine sop-fests of the likes of Allende ( ...more
Now here’s a Latin American novel that I would heartily recommend. Despite the fact that it deals with their endless fascination with what they term as ‘love’ (cf. Love in the Time of Cholera), it is written in the most individual style that I’ve yet come across from this area of the world.
Typically, works off the 1001 Books list from the continent of South America are either saccharine sop-fests of the likes of Allende ( ...more
