“One of the best books I have read tthis year...although it's hard to tell since I have been reading really great books lately.
But I liked the narrative - the 3 parts of the story make you long for more - what's more to learn about that story, about the characters, about what's ahead of them, what was left to say.
The story has rhythm and feeling. Iit is shockingly surprising ... "a thousand times over". It entices the reader's curiosity. It is impossible to drop the book until we inevitably arrive at the last page... of a story which still remains to be told...of a past we can only wish will eventually make a truce with the present.
It's a magnificent writing. It's cruel writing brings our awareness about realities which aren't that far from us. It reports about people. People who suffer. People who lose. People who are misdealt and mistreated. People who are caught in the mesh of someone else's fight and anger. People who despite all of that still keep what's most precious in thsi world: kindness and true, pure love.
It is also about a reality we wish didn't exist; of a contemporaneous situation which is closer to us than we sometimes would like to know.
I will write more about it once my feelings calm down. Above all, it was a great lesson about human kindness, about the capacity of forgiving, of letting go...of being good (again).
I will write more here http://livinglit.edublogs.org/ soon”
cristina C wrote this review Tuesday, October 14 2008.
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