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La Bambina Nata Due Volte (2010)

by Carolina De Robertis(Favorite Author)

3.95 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

8811666171 (ISBN13: 9788811666172)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Garzanti Libri

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 and early life is shrouded in mystery. Her mother dies in childbirth and her father totally dismisses her existence to the point that the family apart from her aunty Tia Tita who tirelessly searches and searches for the missing infant until one day nearly a year after her birth miraculously as her return to the village is hailed she is found in the branches of a tree.The years pass and life is hard for Pajarita and then her daughter Eva is born and so starts another generation born into hardship and ... moreheartbreak, raped at a young age by her father's best friend where she worked as an assistant at his shoe shop Eva leaves and makes her own way in the world and lives her life the best way she can to survive against the growing unrest in Uruguay.Until the day Salome is born and the third generation is created. Salome is a good child until the day she meets Leona and she enlists her to join their secret cell of the Tupamaros trying to change things for the better for the common man in their beleagured country.Salome gets in very deep and endangers herself and family during the political unrest.Finding herself in prison for her crimes she falls pregnant due to repeated rape by the guards, her daughter is her hope and salvation that she can turn her life around but can the fourth generation cure the ills of all that has gone before, a sweeping epic spanning nearly a century charting the history of a family, their successes, their mistakes and personal heartbreak.Haunting and well written this is a fictional slice of history yet with a true historical and factual background.A great read.
review 2: Three generations of women - the wise herbal healer, the poet, and the revolutionary. The writing can be a bit erratic, but then it is a debut novel. Magic realism at the beginning, never to be seen again. Intriguing characters that disappear. That sort of thing.But the sense of place is excellent. Montevideo, Uruguay, was a place with which I was not familiar, until now. All props to the author, a native of said city. Mountain I see you indeed. less

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