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filaughn's review
4.0
The Madwoman of Serrano was the first full-length novel published in Cape Verde by a Cape Verdean woman (in 1998) and was also the first novel by a Cape Verdean woman translated into English (in 2019). After reading it, I hope more of Dina Salustio's work is translated.
This is a complex book that requires your full attention - flashbacks are nested inside of flashbacks and things aren't always what they seem. It's a work of magical realism set partly in a small, strange village (Serrano) and partly in the capital/a city (unnamed city in an unnamed country). It focuses on women's stories, and has a lot to say about gender roles, empowering women, and families.
This is a complex book that requires your full attention - flashbacks are nested inside of flashbacks and things aren't always what they seem. It's a work of magical realism set partly in a small, strange village (Serrano) and partly in the capital/a city (unnamed city in an unnamed country). It focuses on women's stories, and has a lot to say about gender roles, empowering women, and families.
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