L'imagination populaire et l'ignorance où l'on était de sa race conférèrent à Barrabás des caractéristiques mythologiques. On racontait qu'il n'avait cessé de grandir et que si la barbarie d'un boucher n'avait mis fin à ses jours, il eût fini par atteindre la taille d'un chameau. Les gens le croyaie...
I just looked at when I started this book and have to say it's really sad it took me this long to through in the towel. I already could tell as soon as I started the writing was going to drive me bonkers, but it became too much for me to overcome in the end and I stopped reading at 26 percent, or pa...
Nana had the idea that a good fright might make the child speak, and spent nine years inventing all sorts of desperate strategies for frightening Clara, the end result of which was to immunize the girl forever against terror and surprise. Soon Clara was afraid of nothing. She was unmoved by the sudd...
So, after having spent the past weekend and the better part of last night and today tying up half a dozen half-finished bingo reads that, naturally, hadn't shown any progress whatsoever while I was exiled on planet work overload, for the time being I'm back on track. And thus I am happy to finally ...
I was reluctant to read this. It's one of those books for which you catch yourself always saying "yes, I'll read it, but not now", because of all the hype about it and first of all all the hype about Isabel Allende. It happens a lot with me: when a book is praised by everyone, I feel always an hosti...
I wanted to like this, but found myself liking the book less and less as I turned the pages. It may just be that Magical Realism isn't a technique that resonates with me--though I hope it's just Allende's use of it I don't like, and I'm determined to try Borges, García Márquez, and Vargas Llosa some...
This is a good book, even though it is extremely derivative of One Hundred Years of Solitude. It is not just magical realism, it uses the history of a family to symbolize the history of a country, in this case Chile. Silly me, I had not realized that Isabel Allende was related to Salvadore Allende...
I was weary at first when I took the book displayed with the front cover on a shelve in a travel bookshop.I had try to read some later work by Isabel Allende but could delve into it, so I chose this one with no great expectations. The main character Eduardo Truebas is a diehard, as ruthless as the l...
It's an epic, tragic story of passionate love, spirituality, and women and men in a lost revolution. Allende is an amazing story teller though sometimes I did want to take a break while reading it because of the depressing subject matter. Like her other writings it deals extensively with the experie...
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