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Formas De Voltar Para Casa (2011)

by Alejandro Zambra(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Cosac Naify

review 1: A masterful short novel within a novel with not a wasted word. It is clever without being clever-clever, never patronising the reader or over complicating things, but remaining intelligent, thought provoking and perceptive from beginning to end. I love how memory, time, place and childhood is evoked in prose and unexpected conversations, and how the author (or more accurately, the author's character) explores the process of writing. A gem.
review 2: I did a quick inventory in my head of all my friends and family who read, and I can't think of a single person who wouldn't love this book! I haven't read anything since The Unbearable Lightness of Being that so effectively tells the political and historical (Pinochet and post-Pinochet era Chile in this case) throu... moregh intimate, personal stories. This novel is profound, but also light as a song and often very funny. Brilliant! less

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