kokeshi8's review against another edition
3.0
El comienzo y el final del libro son las mejores cosas del libro. Las primeras hojas enganchan rápido y el último párrafo deja la intriga necesaria.
Me sentí muy incómoda con todo el asunto del ojo viscoso, sangre acumulada. Aún así, lectura muy recomendada.
Me sentí muy incómoda con todo el asunto del ojo viscoso, sangre acumulada. Aún así, lectura muy recomendada.
bluelillybooks's review against another edition
1.0
Did not enjoy reading this book at all. I simply couldn't be entertained by the plot, characters or world. Perhaps it reads better in its original Spanish.
purcellibrarian's review against another edition
3.0
In a semi-autobiographical novel, Lina, who has long been warned of this possibility, loses her eyesight after bending over to pick her coat up at a late night party. Her eyes have filled with blood, and veins, blood, and the biological are as much part of this book as the characters. Lina manages to walk home in the gray morning light, seeing only edges of things in her peripheral vision, by leaning on friends. Her boyfriend, another Chilean immigrant in NYC, has always said he’d support her, and his support in this trial is extraordinary, especially in face of his girlfriend’s manipulation. Her loss of vision is recounted in snippets of scenes, and fragmented sentences. Touch and memory fill the hole left by her blindness. Her trip home to Chile, and her plans with her doctors for surgery provide plot lines for this brief stream-of-consciousness book. Its pain leads to moral crisis that is gripping in its intensity.
btzab's review against another edition
4.0
Buen libro, a pesar de que la protagonista está llena de rabias, puedes empatizar con cada una de ellas a pesar de no haberlas vivido. Está bien escrito.
axmed's review
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
I never got the chance to tell them that I did nothing but read during my long days of blindness. Every week I received books on tape, kilos on kilos, in the mail. I clung to fiction like I did to Ignacio.