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A review by tinyhousebookworm
Fish Soup by Margarita García Robayo
dark
funny
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
This book contains two novellas, "Waiting for a hurricane" and "Sex education" and an award winning short story collection, "Worse things". What connects all these pieces is the atmosphere and tone, there's boredom, apathy, and characters that feel stuck in different situations for different reasons and are trying to find a way to escape.
"Stuck on the bedside table there was a box of matches, with a small map of the hotel drawn on it and a cross showing the location of the hotel: You are here. This had made him anxious: being there, underneath that cross, in such a vast and strange place. Stuck."
“Living by the sea is both good and bad for exactly the same reason: the world ends at the horizon. That is, the world never ends. And you always expect too much”
The writing is precise, pungent, with a pinch of dark humor. Another translated gem published by Charco Press.
"Stuck on the bedside table there was a box of matches, with a small map of the hotel drawn on it and a cross showing the location of the hotel: You are here. This had made him anxious: being there, underneath that cross, in such a vast and strange place. Stuck."
“Living by the sea is both good and bad for exactly the same reason: the world ends at the horizon. That is, the world never ends. And you always expect too much”
The writing is precise, pungent, with a pinch of dark humor. Another translated gem published by Charco Press.