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3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
In a beautiful, vibrant depiction of colonial Peru, Wilder explores love, loss and memory with beautiful subtlety. He explores the desires, anguishes and idiosyncrasies of a whole cast of characters, each of which could easily be the focus of a longer narrative of their own. Each of the characters is an Impossibly extreme version of themselves, but Wilder's prose paints them with such sobre vivacity that they reveal the beautiful, the ugly, and above all the complex in each individual around us.
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A hearty 5/5 stars! This short classic really drew me in. I felt like I was living in the world of each of the characters we hear about. I could almost see the scenes playing out like a film in my head. I was invested in everything and very much moved by the storytelling. Check this one out!
A sadly appropriate book to read this week, or after any disaster. "There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."
emotional
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I loved Our Town, so checked this out - pleasantly surprised (why though!) at how lyrical and funny this could be, and at points sharp and acutely aware of human nature. What Light Perpetual might have been.
I'll need to revisit with a paper copy because the ending passed me by but I loved the humanity and interconnectedness of the premise and the variety of the characters
This book is an odd, delightful treat that won’t take up too much of your time. It’s that weird ice cream flavor you try (maybe lobster or sweet potato) that ends up becoming a personal favorite.
In a Peruvian mountain pass, a seemingly sturdy and reliable rope bridge snaps, sending five souls to their deaths. A Franciscan friar sets out to find out why these five should have died and not someone else, looking for a way to justify to man the divine plan he’s so sure of at work in the world.
What follows is a neat little story delving deep into the lives of three individuals in their time leading up to the fatal bridge collapse. There is Dona Maria, an aging great lady who’s desperate for the love of her aloof daughter, the young Esteban dealing with his strained relationship with his twin brother, and old Uncle Pio, an elderly scoundrel who discovered a peasant girl and raised her into a prodigy of the Spanish stage. While all these stories are intriguing and thought provoking on their own, the ending and what it has to say about the meaning of life and death is what truly makes this a classic worth revisiting.