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adventurous
challenging
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
An English naturalist ventures into the pampas in search of an elusive treasure—a flying hare, a Mapuche chief or a Hapsburg diamond—and finds himself in a knotty adventure that overturns his world. All of Aira’s work makes me extravagantly happy, and although this has not unseated An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter among my favorites it is great work on colonialism, the mutability of race and the beauty of language.
“His emotional life had dried up years earlier—when in the first flush of his own youth, he had lost someone he loved who might have taught him to cry. From that day on, he had never felt the sense of dread that is a natural part of life: he cold see this now, when he was least expecting it, but in someone else” (66)
Moderate: Murder, Gun violence, Colonisation, and Violence
Minor: Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Racism
On one occasion a woman is almost literally "fridged" but since
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