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Title: The Dark Bride : A Novel by Laura Restrepo ISBN: 0-06-008895-8 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Magical journalism?
Comment: When I flipped this book over and saw that the blurbs on the back were by Isabel Allende and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I knew this was going to be the book I read next.
The form of this book is journalistic--the narrator is a reporter doing research into the life of a mysterious and legendary young prostitute named Sayonara. Because the stories come filtered through the reporter and her interviews, there is some distance inherent in the tone. Yet because Sayonara changed every life she touched--including that of the reporter, who only comes to know her through a picture and stories--the passion of her story comes through, even secondhand.
The book is set in Colombia's oil fields and in the brothels of a nearby town. The focus of the narrative remains narrow, mining the intimacies of the lives of the prostitutes and oil workers who turn to them for comfort (and receive it, in all senses of the word) once a month.
Yet because their lives take place against the backdrop of the Columbian political and military situation, and the virtual colonization by American oil interests, there is another level to the story--at least insofar as all this affects the prostitutes and oilworkers.
Not everyone is going to like this book. There is no driving plot. Instead, we start with a loose frame of a story and then gradually fill in the details, layer by layer. But if you like a literary, richly detailed book with an unforgettable cast of unusual characters, this might just be the book for you.
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Title: The Angel of Galilea by Dolores M. Koch, Laura Restrepo ISBN: 0375706496 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 07 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Tinisima by Elena Poniatowska, Kathrine Silver, Katherine Silver ISBN: 0140268766 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Latin American Studies: A Companion by Philip Swanson ISBN: 0340806826 Publisher: Edward Arnold Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: In Search of Klingsor : The International Bestselling Novel by Jorge Volpi ISBN: 0743201183 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 11 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Consumers and Citizens: Globalization and Multicultural Conflicts by George Yudice, Nestor Garcia Canclini, Néstor García Canclini, Kathleen Ashley, Editors,Robert L. A. Clark ISBN: 0816629870 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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