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A review by booksnpunks
Brickmakers by Selva Almada
4.0
4.5 stars. I am so obsessed with this. Brickmakers opens with two young men dying on the floor of a fairground after stabbing each other. The novel goes back in time to look at the feud between their fathers and where the rift between the families first started.
Something about this book just really clicked with me and I couldn’t stop reading. I’m really loving books at the moment which are examining and critiquing Latin American masculine violence and this one just does it in such an intense way, whilst still keeping the humanity. I loved the writing and brilliant translation from Annie McDermott who is becoming one of my favourite translators.
The characters, the plot, the atmosphere, everything was just perfect in this novel. I absolutely loved it. Need to immediately read the rest of Selva Almada’s books.
Something about this book just really clicked with me and I couldn’t stop reading. I’m really loving books at the moment which are examining and critiquing Latin American masculine violence and this one just does it in such an intense way, whilst still keeping the humanity. I loved the writing and brilliant translation from Annie McDermott who is becoming one of my favourite translators.
The characters, the plot, the atmosphere, everything was just perfect in this novel. I absolutely loved it. Need to immediately read the rest of Selva Almada’s books.