A review by ihfdayton
Never Did the Fire by Diamela Eltit

5.0

Profoundly sad, yet one of the most rich and complex novels I’ve ever read. The themes are varied and deep, revolutionary, irreducible to aesthetics or myth-making. The writing itself, the technique, is frankly beautiful. Narration jumps tenses and topics without bucking the reader, a convincing rendering of one thinking and feeling on the page.

I would recommend this to anyone, but especially those looking for genuinely proletarian literature that features political content without limiting the characters by it.