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A review by kassiuz
Los recuerdos del porvenir / Recollections of Things to Come by Elena Garro
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
This one was part of the coffee shop book club.
This one was a ride, not only because the story is actually an emotional rollercoaster but because I was coming from a slow read and the beginning of this book was hard to get into.When I say beginning I mean the first 20-40 pages.
Once I fell into rhythm the book was actually very easy to go through. For me this book constantly kept calling my imagination to small towns in the middle of dusty deserts, with poorer houses made of adobe whose white plaster is starting to come off and shows the underlying mud bricks contrasting with the worked stone facade of the richer houses that is broken up by large windows protected by black wrought metal and whose heavy wood shutter are kept open to allow the wind to come into the shadowy interior and high-ceilinged rooms.
All that said, this book occurs in a town in the south of Mexico. So despite how vivid my envisioning was, I was badly misplaced.
As for the narrative, without spoiling anything, it was a book that had me jumping from one emotion to the other in an almost non-stop fashion. The idyllic town life lulled me into a sense of peace and the gossipy development matched with the backdrop of violence built in my a contemplative vein about the conditions of the women and men involved in the dance of this story and then as the conflict drew near the sensations flipped and I felt stronger surges of anger, despair, hope and all other human flares.
This is a book I would recommend to someone who wants to experience a wide range of emotions and is okay with some of them being deeply uncomfortable; to someone who is looking for how the large historical events leave a deep wound in the lives of the common human and how at the same time, its the "little people" that drive the most raw and intense of events throughout history.
This one was a ride, not only because the story is actually an emotional rollercoaster but because I was coming from a slow read and the beginning of this book was hard to get into.When I say beginning I mean the first 20-40 pages.
Once I fell into rhythm the book was actually very easy to go through. For me this book constantly kept calling my imagination to small towns in the middle of dusty deserts, with poorer houses made of adobe whose white plaster is starting to come off and shows the underlying mud bricks contrasting with the worked stone facade of the richer houses that is broken up by large windows protected by black wrought metal and whose heavy wood shutter are kept open to allow the wind to come into the shadowy interior and high-ceilinged rooms.
All that said, this book occurs in a town in the south of Mexico. So despite how vivid my envisioning was, I was badly misplaced.
As for the narrative, without spoiling anything, it was a book that had me jumping from one emotion to the other in an almost non-stop fashion. The idyllic town life lulled me into a sense of peace and the gossipy development matched with the backdrop of violence built in my a contemplative vein about the conditions of the women and men involved in the dance of this story and then as the conflict drew near the sensations flipped and I felt stronger surges of anger, despair, hope and all other human flares.
This is a book I would recommend to someone who wants to experience a wide range of emotions and is okay with some of them being deeply uncomfortable; to someone who is looking for how the large historical events leave a deep wound in the lives of the common human and how at the same time, its the "little people" that drive the most raw and intense of events throughout history.