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The stories are interesting and detailed, but they're very matter of fact. A lot of the places they get to stay are well equipped and the people are helpful in the place for refugees, besides the river village. All I've been taught in school about Central America was the problem with drugs, but not much about their governments. It's very clear South seems bad and America is good. Why was her stepdad so apathetic?

Like most translated books that I've read, I feel like it can make the writing stiff and flat. It's probably not the author's fault, it might be the translation. The stories are interesting and rely heavily on trauma, pain, and loss, but there's no heart. I didn't expect the dead body thing to happen either. I do think the stories are interesting, and they're terrible, but it doesn't make me feel genuinely

(71) I like this story. I like the three perspectives, but since I started it and then put it down I kind of had to reremember everything. I wonder if this will be a story that doesn't really have a plot in the present. It's just stories. I don't know if I've ever read a book where the love interests were elderly. There's a lot of trauma, the history is well placed and easy to pick up. I might take this book with me.

Algo diferente y en español. Ni yo me lo creo.
Richard estuvo en Brasil y casado con una brasileña que casualidad suena a la historia de mi vida 🙄

A good introduction to the character of some south American countries but a story line that was hard to believe.

Está siendo muy grato reencontrarse con la pluma de Isabel Allende, me gusta mucho cómo construye personajes con tanta identidad latinoamericana.

Started yesterday. I'm still in a slump and this is the first book I've been slightly into in the last month. It always amazes me how much time America spends fucking around on foreign affairs when our country is struggling. This reminds me of the Poison wood Bible because of the way the history is thrown on, but Allende doesn't do it as smoothly or easy to understand. I feel comfortable that this is an own voices.

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" وأي تعاسة تلقّاها في أحد الأيام .. ستتحول إلى قصة قديمه في اليوم التالي "

عادت إلى صمتها باستسلام من لم يتحكم في حياته قط .

Listening to the audiobook!

Per ora appassionante come tutte le sue storie

The good reads progress box says there are only 10 pages in this book, there's 340.

I started reading this early this morning. To be honest with you, I could have kept on reading all day. But things to do...

I am having trouble getting interested in this. I decided to continue to about page 75 to see if it gets more interesting to me.

Solo tengo como veinte paginas hasta terminar este libro y todavía no sé que quiere decir la autora. Todavía no puedo comprender la motivación de los caracteres. De veras, me pienso que este libro es uno de los peores que he leído durante mí vida.

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Allende jamás deserciona. Me ha vuelto a atrapar con esta tierna historia

Allende is a great author.

El estilo de escribir es buena, pero....no me gusta los personajes en este libro! Son todos egoista y miope y me dan ira.

“Al necesitado no se le pregunta quién es ni de dónde viene, Richard. Todos somos iguales en la desgracia.”

Llevo poquísimas páginas y ya estoy enganchada con la historia. Amo la forma en que describe y entrega detalles sobre Chile.

Dang tackling a TON of cultural issues... too many? we shall see

That double life though is messed up

Ooh MS13... I don't think I have read any fiction novels that touch upon this

Esa soledad, que antes llegaba sin anunciarse, como insidiosa visitante, quedó relegada al último rincón de su conciencia.

Me encanta la forma de escribir de Isabel Allende.♡

Ya llevo la mitad del libro y no puedo soltarlo.
Es muy atrapante las historias de los personajes!

I feel so seen by the portrayal of Richard’s Virgo-ness.

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I quit when I got to the description of the sick cat. Nope nope nope. Not having it in my life.