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alison_marie 's review for:
The Wind Knows My Name
by Isabel Allende
This is my first Isabel Allende novel, and it left me disappointed.
The beginning was incredibly engaging, telling the story of young boy who was sent on the Kindertransport train out of Austria during WWII. We then get the stories of three other characters: an immigrant child from El Salvador separated from her mother at the U.S. border in 2020, an immigration worker trying to find the child's mother, and a middle-aged woman who immigrated from Central America when she was a child.
The way Allende ties all of the stories together is interesting, but I would have enjoyed it more had we just focused on Samuel and Anita, the children forcibly separated from their parents. I don't know if this was due to the translation, but I found the dialogue clunky and awkward.
I'm still curious to read an earlier book of Allende's, though, because she is a good writer despite my issues with this story.
The beginning was incredibly engaging, telling the story of young boy who was sent on the Kindertransport train out of Austria during WWII. We then get the stories of three other characters: an immigrant child from El Salvador separated from her mother at the U.S. border in 2020, an immigration worker trying to find the child's mother, and a middle-aged woman who immigrated from Central America when she was a child.
The way Allende ties all of the stories together is interesting, but I would have enjoyed it more had we just focused on Samuel and Anita, the children forcibly separated from their parents. I don't know if this was due to the translation, but I found the dialogue clunky and awkward.
I'm still curious to read an earlier book of Allende's, though, because she is a good writer despite my issues with this story.