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I have read this four times now, first at fifteen and most recently for our January discussion, and it keeps changing on me.
42 members found this helpful · 18 January 2025The first fifty pages ask you to trust that the confusion is deliberate. It is. Once the chronology settles, the book becomes almost unbearably clear.
37 members found this helpful · 4 February 2025Everyone warns you about the repeated names, and everyone is right. But the repetition is the point: Macondo forgets and so the Buendías repeat themselves.
51 members found this helpful · 27 November 2024Mantel keeps the politics at the edge of the frame until suddenly it is the frame. The present tense takes fifty pages to settle.
44 members found this helpful · 9 March 2025