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Title: Bitter Grounds : A Novel by Sandra Benitez ISBN: 0-312-19541-9 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 15 August, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Generational saga of 2 families of women in El Salvador
Comment: Author Sandra Benitez wraps readers up tightly in the tale of a poor family and a rich family tied to El Salvador's coffee plantations, but don't get too cozy: the terrors imposed by gov't forces as well as the guerrilla soldiers lurks somewhere on the pages ahead. The story follows pairs of mothers and daughters caught between passion and politics.
The author grew up in the 50s in El Salvador and was a witness to the heartbreak of illiterate women who left villages and families behind to find work in the capital. Then, in the 70s, as friends and family became targets of the growing revolution, she experienced firsthand the repercussions of oppression. This is a powerful book, one that will stay with readers long after they've turned the last page and turned off the reading lamp.
Rating: 5
Summary: A great book to read...
Comment: I really like the way Sandra Benitez writes. It is the first of her books I read and was nice to see the combination of reality and fiction. A fiction novel based on a reality that darkened the beautiful country of El Salvador.
Rating: 4
Summary: Violent but compelling
Comment: My bookclub decided to read this book as a follow-up to the non-fiction From Grandmothers to Granddaughters by Michael Gorkin that follows 3 generations of Salvadoran women through the civil war and into the 90's. This book was an excellent fictional follow-on. It follows the paths of 3 generations of one lower class family and one upper class family through the turbulent 20th Century in El Salvador. Benitez does not hesitate to share the gory details of Salvador's turbulent history from 1933-1977.
I found the book very easy to become engrossed in, despite my dislike of violence and blood-drenched descriptions. Her descriptions of life in El Salvador are true to life in every detail. I live in San Salvador and found myself searching for "Tresores" or the carjacking spot on the road to La Libertad in Santa Tecla.
I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in what it is like to live in this country, what the Salvadoran people have experienced, or who just wants a beautiful, albeit sad, story of human survival in adversity.
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Title: Weight of All Things, The: A Novel by Sandra Benitez ISBN: 0786887036 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: 20 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: CUZCATLAN-V253 by Manlio Argueta ISBN: 0394742532 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 May, 1987 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: One Day of Life by Bill Brow, Manlio Argueta ISBN: 0679732438 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 09 January, 1991 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: EPICA's 30th Anniversary Anthology, Volume II, We Make The Road By Walking by Ann Butwell, Kathy Ogle, Scott Wright, Kathy Ogle Ann Butwell, Scott Wright ISBN: 0918346207 Publisher: Epica Task Force Pub. Date: 20 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: EPICA's 30th Anniversary Anthology, Volume I, The Globalization of Hope by Ann Butwell, Kathy Ogle, Scott Wright, Kathy Ogle Ann Butwell, Scott Wright ISBN: 0918346193 Publisher: Epica Task Force Pub. Date: 20 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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