A review by abookishtype
Human Matter: A Fiction by Rodrigo Rey Rosa

4.0

It’s hard to know quite what to make of Rodrigo Rey Rosa’s Human Matter: A Fiction (translated by Eduardo Aparicio). The subtitle, “a fiction,” doesn’t really help. This book is based on the time Rey Rosa spent about a decade ago in the Guatemala National Police’s Historical Archive. There is a lot of actual history and real-life events in this book, so much so that it’s hard to know where the non-fiction leaves off and the fiction begins. I was strongly reminded of Laurent Binet’s HHhH because both authors wrestle with the wide gap between what they can prove with historical fact, what they want to know, and what they can never know...

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via Edelweiss, for review consideration.