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A carregar... The Farm (2014)por Héctor Abad Faciolince
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Habría que pensar en qué medida es posible ser buena persona y enriquecerse, mejorar, en un sistema corrupto. Los personajes de Anita —emprendedora— y de Cobo —el padre, simpatizante comunista, que no acepta la homosexualidad del vástago y se replantea su vida entera cuando a su nieto lo secuestra la guerrilla— hacen bascular, entre dos polos, a protagonistas que encarnan visiones del mundo no antagónicas pero sí llenas de matices. Pese a la genética, la educación y el paisaje común de un paraíso de infancia, se conforman tres existencias distintas a golpe de violencias, amores y desamores, permeabilidad hacia otros espacios y costumbres. La homofobia en una sociedad opresiva, la perversa voluntad de curarse, ofrecen momentos camaleónicos y brillantes como la primera experiencia sexual de Antonio. De su mano asistimos a la construcción de un pueblo que quiere tener nombre de utopía —Felicina— y acaba adoptando un topónimo bíblico, Jericó. Aun así, persiste la búsqueda de la felicidad. No comparto ciertos aspectos ideológicos de La Oculta, pero no por elegancia como Anita, sino por admiración literaria, se la recomiendo vivamente. (https://elpais.com/cultura/2015/04/09/babelia/1428579437_069602.html) Surprisingly, this book was a drag. It has three interwoven narratives; three siblings think about their farm, and through their impressions and memories, the history of Colombia. Some interesting points about land ownership, capitalism, and political violence are bogged down by the individual siblings' bland bourgeois nostalgia. Problematic "opinions" about abortion, adoption, and homophobia among African-Americans are simply left unchallenged. The prose is polished, graceful, lyrical. But it was so well-mannered and tedious. It was the final chapter that had any emotional heft; it puts into context modernisation & what people—whole societies—have lost in terms of their connection to nature. But 300 pages to get to something moving doesn't make sense. In between, it felt self-indulgent, tepid; characters looping around the same solipsistic concerns. The structure didn't work for me. However, please take my review with a grain of salt as I predict this book will be widely praised for being a sprawling saga and a modern "literary classic" about Latin America. It is part of that subgenre of literary fiction that gets rave reviews, the subgenre I'll refer to as, "The Pain and Anguish of the Middle Class: We Just Want to be Left Alone with Our Money and Property because The World Out There is Distasteful and Icky and Taking a Political Stand is Unsophisticated". It has received good blurbs from literary heavyweights and good advance reviews in Kirkus and Publishers Weekly. I'm sure it'll find its readers. Thank you to the publisher for an advance reading copy via NetGalley. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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Closely knit Colombian siblings' internal rifts threaten to tear apart the hard-won legacy their father fought to establish against guerilla and paramilitary violence. An intimate and transgressive novel that confirms Héctor Abad as one of the great writers of Latin American literature today. Pilar, Eva, and Antonio Ángel are the last heirs of La Oculta, a farm hidden in the mountains of Colombia. The land has survived several generations. It is the landscape of their happiest memories but it is also where they have had to face the siege of violence and terror, restlessness and flight. In The Farm, Héctor Abad illuminates the vicissitudes of a family and of a people, as well as of the voices of these three siblings, recounting their loves, fears, desires, and hopes, all against a dazzling backdrop. We enter their lives at the moment when they are about to lose the paradise on which they built their dreams and their reality. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Beautifully written with such vivid perspectives from each character, I was wholly invested in the fate of these siblings and the farm. Except for Antonio – insufferably boring Antonio – who droned on and on in painful detail about the family tree. And, there’s a few things about Antonio that felt a little problematic to me, specifically his troubled relationship with his black husband. And, how he’s so utterly aloof and selfish.
This turned out to be one of my favorite reads of the month despite how much I dreaded Antonio’s chapters. I highly recommend it for fans of Latin American literature. ( )