A review by rogerb
Of Saints and Miracles by Manuel Astur
challenging
mysterious
sad
slow-paced
3.0
I'm on Peirene's list, so they notified me of this one, and the summary was enough to make me buy it.
The blurb is, I suppose, accurate, but I didn't really enjoy this although I don't contest that it is well, poetically written. It is possible that the translation is at fault but that seems unfair without better knowledge. Various tales and folk-tales from an isolated region are interweaved with Marcelino's flight from authority, but the foreground plot simply didn't grab me.
It was short, so OK. I won't be back for this genre or author.
The blurb is, I suppose, accurate, but I didn't really enjoy this although I don't contest that it is well, poetically written. It is possible that the translation is at fault but that seems unfair without better knowledge. Various tales and folk-tales from an isolated region are interweaved with Marcelino's flight from authority, but the foreground plot simply didn't grab me.
It was short, so OK. I won't be back for this genre or author.