Everyone in the neighborhood was talking about this book, so my neighbor loaned it to me to read so I could talk about it too. Unfortunately, he seems to be on vacation now. Anyway. I liked this book (especially the footnotes that bugged some people- really, who can complain about interesting footnotes). I really know very little about the Dominican Republic and I enjoyed reading something about it, even if it is fiction. But it's the writing that made the book worth reading for me. Words like vibrant are a good way to describe it.
Side note- if you're a careful reader, I'm not recommending it to you.
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I read that book for a class and even wrote a paper on it--I thought it was great (yeah, definitely not the most clean). The writing really sparkles and the footnotes are fun in an edgy, post-modern way. My paper was all about the strategies the author uses to both reveal and obscure information, because in several interviews he has said that he views writing as a tool against dictatorship and the control of information that occurs under government control. And that he views bilingual writing as a sort of 'revenge on English', which I think is interesting too. Glad you liked it--people I know either totally love the book or totally hate it.
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