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Reputations by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
2.0

I don't really know how I felt about this one... It was interesting enough and thankfully short enough too, as I think any longer and I might have given up... Not because it was bad, but because I just couldn't really understand it??? I'm not sure if that is a fault of mine for not being 'intellectual' enough or simply not being from that culture - that is South American and hyper critical of the politics in my country especially when the risk of harming myself or others through that criticism is very real.

I did enjoy his writing style so I might have a look and see if his other work sounds interesting enough AND has been translated. Unfortunately I don't love him enough to attempt to read it in the original Spanish, unlike how I felt after reading [b:Signs Preceding the End of the World|21535546|Signs Preceding the End of the World|Yuri Herrera|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1398195367s/21535546.jpg|15089950] by [a:Yuri Herrera|1822424|Yuri Herrera|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1354560366p2/1822424.jpg].

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