In 2017, this book apparently became the first novel (though more of a novella really, clocking in around 180 pages) from Guinea-Bissau to be translated into English. It doesn’t do too well in the storytelling department, and despite being first published in 1995 it is a simplistic criticism of Port...
bookshelves: argentina, mystery-thriller, one-penny-wonder, paper-read, published-2006, under-500-ratings, series, winter-20142015, tbr-busting-2015 Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Carey Combe Read from January 15 to February 15, 2015 The strapline: Argentina under the Dictatorship - no one is inn...
I read a review that said that "the reader will find (the book) suffocating and yet impossible to put down" and I couldn't agree more. The unusual writing style, once I got used to it, only helped in the forward momentum of this horrifying, yet eminently believable, story. I know little of Argentine...
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