Review: Pedro Páramo

Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

For a book I could barely follow and at times felt like I didn't understand at all, I still found it remarkable. The magical realism of Mexico permeates throughout the story, and I especially appreciated the translator's note at the end, specifying the attention to the odd punctuation in the original, as well as the phrases with no verbs, etc.


5 stars.


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Review: The Murmur of Bees

The Murmur of Bees by Sofía Segovia
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I'm embarrassed to say this, but this book really reminded me of The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende. It probably shows how few Latin American authors I've read more than anything else. But this story also spans a few generations of a family, and has a dash of magical realism, while the characters undergo the changing politics/revolutions/international events as a family. Granted, I haven't read THOS in decades, but it definitely brought back that feeling more than once.

All in all it was an intense and epic journey with this family and the characters attached to (revolving around?) it. I would like to read more by this author, or possibly more contemporary Mexican fiction.


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