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Jun 16, 2016Pisinga rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I like books by this author. To understand their pessimistic feeling, seeping from every page, you need to know more deeply about the history, politics and events in Colombia. It annoys me a bit that he is trying to create some kind of "Colombian literature of lost generation", as was the case with many authors during and after the First World War. Hence the motives of loneliness, emptiness and lack of meaning of life that Vasquez is attributing to his personages. But reality is not quite like that - what the writer is trying to show about Colombians -they in general don't suffer from a deep despair, despite the violent history of the country. But the language of the book is very good. And here we must pay tribute to the translator.