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Infinite Country
by Patricia Engel
This book does an amazing job at illustrating how life splinters along the way, and occasionally heals along those fissures. Not back to what it was but not entirely foreign either. Separation is told by way of the splintering of family. Physically, emotionally, and spiritually. The separation of the children, lovers, and the self. Like ashes spread across the land by wind.
The fragmentation is told in the splintering of a country. The Guerrillas, Narcos, the corrupt Government officials. Fracturing the country into the fiefdoms, the boundaries marked by bodies. The splintering of one nation into its many parts. It’s history no longer a single thread; the shards of which now represented by the Colombian history told In the stories of the first inhabitants and their erasure by the conquistadors.
The breakup is shown in the splintering of dreams, as illustrated by the realities of the migrants seeking something more in a land not their own. The soaring hopes of each family member brought down to earth by the bitter reality and ugliness of the world. Somehow though in the end, even with the reader’s own heart shattering along the way, redemption is found. A very moving and telling story that reminds me of all of the best parts of “Behold the Dreamers.”
The fragmentation is told in the splintering of a country. The Guerrillas, Narcos, the corrupt Government officials. Fracturing the country into the fiefdoms, the boundaries marked by bodies. The splintering of one nation into its many parts. It’s history no longer a single thread; the shards of which now represented by the Colombian history told In the stories of the first inhabitants and their erasure by the conquistadors.
The breakup is shown in the splintering of dreams, as illustrated by the realities of the migrants seeking something more in a land not their own. The soaring hopes of each family member brought down to earth by the bitter reality and ugliness of the world. Somehow though in the end, even with the reader’s own heart shattering along the way, redemption is found. A very moving and telling story that reminds me of all of the best parts of “Behold the Dreamers.”