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Oct 22, 2017
Melissa
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it was amazing
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An absolutely heartbreaking and stunning novel set during the time of the Shining Path insurgency told through the voices of three women: a revolutionary true-believer, a Quechua villager, and an upper-class reporter/photographer. Brutal, pain-soaked, and surreal.
TW for rape, which is an unavoidable event during this period in Peru.
TW for rape, which is an unavoidable event during this period in Peru.
This was a very interesting book. It took a bit to get into it because of the writing style: it kept switching between characters and there sections where it was just words with no structure. Once I got used to the style, it flowed better. The writing is spare, but extremely evocative. I was totally able to picture everything the author described. After I got to the end, I got why the author wrote it the way she did. The best part I liked about the book was that it was war totally through a woma
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Sep 22, 2017
Kara
marked it as to-read
