I listened to this book in Spanish. I'm not aware if there is an English translation yet. I believe there should be a translation for the US market so people here would understand better what people go through when war is fought in their own country. Of course, there are always immigrants arriving from war zones, but the last war in the US was in the 1800's and there isn't anyone alive who lived through it. So, back to the book, I loved it as a history lesson. I managed to finish college without learning much history, even while it was happening. I guess I should be ashamed of that, and I am, a bit, and trying to remedy my big gaps of knowledge. On the other hand, I did learn how to make a computer start a printer using Assembler language. Oh well.As far as the book as a novel, it fails. The Spanish language critiques I've read so far complain about the unlikeliness of all those events happening to the heroine. I don't complain about that, it's, after all, a novel. I will complain about the format. The book is just a bunch of info dumps! And very unlikely info dumps. The people telling the story could, possibly, have acquired some facts, but we are told they know a lot of intimate details they could not have learned, since the heroine is said not to have discussed them with anyone, or at least not anyone who lived to tell the tale, and in some cases she did, but not with the person who is narrating the events.As far as the big reveal at the end, I suspected it from the start. And I don't get the author's little trick of including it in an epilogue. It should have been in the last chapter, in my humble opinion. The epilogue should maybe explain the other untied ends, as what happened to the protagonist (the reporter). Did he break his word and publish the book, and this is it? Did he decide to become a spy himself and estranged himself from his mother and aunt to whom he owns either money or a book? Your guess is as good as mine. I was very disappointed with the ending. ¡¿Cómo puede ser que NUNCA le haya escrito una reseña a este libro PERFECTO y MARAVILLOSO?! ¡Confieso que he pecado!Realmente no tengo ni una crítica mínima que hacerle a esta obra maestra. Todo en este libro es IMPECABLE y FASCINANTE. Amelia pasó a ser mi protagonista literaria favorita de todos los tiempos, con sus fallas y defectos. APASIONANTE. La historia, el contexto histórico, político y social, todos y cada uno de los personajes, los giros argumentales, EL FINAL, mamma mía que final!! casi me caigo de la silla cuando finalmente até todos los cabos que había que atar. Me la pasé transcribiendo párrafos enteros y - si bien el libro es larguísimo - lo terminé en muy pocos días por el simple hecho de que no podía parar de darle vuelta a las páginas. ¡Un libro adictivo! Aprendí muchísimo sobre historia y política y eso lo valoro y lo llevo conmigo. En particular, me encantó conocer más sobre la historia de España porque antes de leer este libro era casi una ignorante respecto al tema. Este libro entra en mi top 10 de libros preferidos de todos los tiempos, sin lugar a dudas. Y ahora me entraron ganas de volver a leerlo! Y bueh... me tendré que sacrificar, jajaja. EXCELENTE, IMPECABLE, ADICTIVO, FASCINANTE, INCREIBLE, de una calidad literaria y narrativa impresionante. EXTRAORDINARIO.
What do You think about Dimmi Chi Sono (2010)?
Me gusto mucho este libro solo un poco largo y demasiada historia... Excelente libro en resumen
—Bg123
Increible libro, no hay ni una parte aburrida y no deja de sorprenderte en cada pagina
—David
