Esta es otra de las recomendaciones de mis compañeros en el curso sobre Latinoamérica de Coursera. La autora es bien conocida pero yo me estreno con esta novela.La obra se plantea como una fusión de géneros: el reportaje periodístico y la historia literaria. Según declara la propia Laura Restrepo...
Originally posted at:A Girl that Likes BooksEvery story is like a big cake, everyone gives account of the piece he or she is eating and the only one that can account for the whole thing is the baker.Why I read this bookMy reading of Hispanic authors has gone down in the last years, let alone Colo...
Laura Restrepo's LA ISLA DE LA PASION is very hard to put down, as it is an excellent novel. In the early 1900's, a Mexican soldier by the name of Ramon Arnaud is stationed at a tiny island in the Pacific, south of Acapulco. He moves there with his wife and a few other people. For all practical p...
And also Messala, Ben-Hur’s enemy, who is trampled by chariot wheels and the hooves of galloping horses until he’s the bloodiest wreck imaginable. The theater was almost empty during the matinee and I didn’t dare move in my seat, it was Aminta who took me, I think, because that afternoon my mothe...
I like that, the formality of ‘recite’ is very Argentinean. It’s a line from a movie. And now tell me about the newspapers again.”“What newspapers?”“How they warned you not to read newspapers on the airplane, and later in the café and on the metro, because any woman who read a newspaper was immed...
Como invitada por el chisporroteo, la violencia penetró ese año arrasadora y grosera, y Santamaría, que era liberal, fue convertida en pandemónium por la gran rabia conservadora. Fue así como a los pocos meses de vida, Siete por Tres debió ver por vez primera—¿por segunda?, ¿por tercera? —el espe...
Mark’s. “Maybe ‘agreed upon’ is not the right term,” Rose tells me. They had not actually agreed to anything yet. Rose had been asleep when he answered the phone at about four or five in the morning and heard Pro Bono give an order through the fog of his sleep. “That’s his style, giving orders. I...