Books by Carolina De Robertis
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review 1: Mi piacerebbe aver il coraggio e la sintesi utilizzate da Fantozzi per recensire il film sulla famosa corazzata russa (questo film è una c.. pazzesca!). Mi limiterò a osservare che da tempo non leggevo un libro così inutile, mal strutturato e mal scritto. Non è sufficiente dichia...
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review 1: C'è questa domandina in alto: 'what did you think?'Cosa ne pensi?Ebbene, io penso che per leggere certi libri ci voglia del coraggio, non puoi prenderli in mano e pensare che sarà una comune esperienza, che è solo un libro come un altro, perché ci sono libri che son solo libri e ...
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review 1: A magical book full of myth, mystery and history. The story is set around three generations of women from the start of the 20th century and follows their individual yet entwined lives up until the point of 1990.Pajarita is born on the first day of the new century and her birth an...
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review 1: What I love most about cultural historical fiction is not just the tidbits of history I never knew, but being able to understand that history in its context, from the perspective of people who lived through it.This novel set in 1930-1980s does a great job of delving into the poli...
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review 1: I loooovee this book more than I thought I would. I bought it off a withdrawn library books cart for super cheap so I didn't really have high expectations for it. I started reading it in May and put it down a few pages in because I wasn't so captivated by the story at first. I pi...
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review 1: Now I have a wonderful dilemma - I gave De Robertis powerful first novel 5 stars, but her second book is even better!Powerfully written, with beautiful lyrical language, this is the tale of one young girl's life in the time of The Disappeared in Argentina. I was so drawn into Per...