I was enthralled by the description on the back cover of this book. But, I made it to about page 100 and gave up. The writing is laborious to say the least. Pretentious may be a better word. I found that I was skipping pages, looking for some dialogue in quotation marks in the hope that it wo...
Conflicted. Giving this a four even though for me, it was a 3. I think. At times I might almost have rated it a 2 for me but with a few weeks' distance, given how compelled I felt to think about it afterward, a 4 seemed more accurate to the total experience. This book caught my eye in my local in...
No, I did not read the Spanish version, but wish I could. The English translation is now available: "The Infatuations". Thought provoking narrative of mostly internal dialogues. Macbeth's "she should have died hearafter" weaves throughout this tale of love and murder, making me reinterpret that f...
A tapestry of dialogues and fictitious dialogues woven on a fabric of a relatively simplistic plot and characters. Oh but what a brilliant and beautiful tapestry that is!As others have commented, the plot and characters in this novel seemed to serve the sole purpose of channeling the author's opi...
