Reviews

Once again, it's a 5-star format with 1-star content/plot.

I loved the visual representation of relationships and the nonlinearity of people and their intersections. That being said, nothing particularly happened. It read more as an illuminated memoir than an piece of art. There were glimmers of a start of a story about displacement and war, but never touched directly. (And if the point was how indirect war and displacement affects people and relationships, that still could've been done more completely.) It was a super cool format, I just wish a little more was done with it.

Content Warnings

rayuelita's review against another edition

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5.0

Bueno, pues si un libro me ha destrozado, se dice y ya está.

camiladrn's review against another edition

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5.0

En realidad está para un 4,5.
No con muchos libros me pasa que me quedo pensando cuando lo termino, lo tendría que leer varias veces después de haberlo terminado para ir conectando puntos.
No es el género de libro al que estoy acostumbrada a leer, y ese género es "el autor hace lo que se le canta el orto"; no sabía donde estaba parada, ni mi nombre, ni donde deje mi corpiño. Todo eso leyendo este libro, y me pareció fantástico.
Son poquitas hojas, sumándole los dibujos y el juego constante de espacios en blanco, así que te lo morfás de una.
Hubo varios momentos en donde me armaba la línea de tiempo perfecta, pero después seguía leyendo y me daba cuenta que nada que ver con lo que yo pensaba. Ni el nombre de la protagonista me di cuenta cuál era hasta la página 150 más o menos.
Tiene pensamientos profundos y depende de como lo entiendas tranquilamente pudiste haber leído un libro diferente que yo, con distintas impresiones y mensajes.
Librazo, para releerlo de una. We stand latin writers.

crystalbrutlag's review

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A look at absence and emptiness through prose and drawings. I loved the use of drawings throughout the book to help tell the story. I was a bit confused about the plot at various points throughout, but in other places the drawings added a really unique element to the story. Overall, I loved this and would like to read it again one day. I think this is one that could use multiple reads to fully take in all that the book has to offer.

I also loved the translation note at the end. It shows what's involved in any translation process, but also the translation of a book that has unique elements such as this one.